Cleaner Lands $80 million Australian Powerball Jackpot

A cleaner from North Melbourne, Australia, had a sleepless night on Thursday evening. Not surprising really as he’d just found out that he’d won an $80 million Australian Powerball jackpot.

The draw took place on August 12 at 8.30pm. It was two-and-a-half hours later that the lucky winner checked his ticket and made the amazing discovery. “I couldn’t sleep after that!” said the shocked Australian Powerball winner.

Life Changing Win

The lucky winner has asked to remain anonymous, but he has spoken about his win. It’s not been an easy time for him as he lost his job during one of the lockdowns that have taken place in Melbourne. That came at the worst possible time for him as he’d just bought a new home. As he says, it was something he “didn’t see coming.”

Since losing that job he’s been working as a cleaner “to make ends meet.”  Lockdown has been tough, but he just said to himself, “you’ve just gotta keep trying” and “now, look what’s happened.”

Helping Others

The Australian Powerball winner said that he will use his windfall to set his children up for life. “That will be an incredible thing to be able to do,” he said. “I am going to try and help everyone. There’s so much we will be able to do with this prize. It will change so many people’s lives.”

Also planned is paying off his mortgage and other bills that he has. His winning numbers were: 04-10-17-19-21-23-26 and the Powerball 07. He was lucky to be the only winner as it has been estimated that one in four people in Australia bought a ticket for the draw.

Mathematician Dre Stephen Woodcock says that winning the Australian Powerball jackpot is “like putting icing on a very improbable cake” with a one in 134 million chance of a single ticket winning the jackpot.

The $80 million win shares the record for the largest lottery win in the state of Victoria. It puts him at number three in the largest ever lottery wins in Australia.

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