A couple from a north-eastern Perth suburb are celebrating an early retirement and looking forward to travelling in luxury after winning a Lotto jackpot.<\/p>\n
Bagging $1.28 million in a Saturday Lotto draw, the duo became WA\u2019s 40th division one Lotto prize winners of 2026.<\/p>\n
Still in disbelief over their cash windfall, the couple are looking to splurge on some business class tickets for the first time in their lives<\/p>\n
\u201cWe already have a holiday booked to celebrate our wedding anniversary, but we will be upgrading our tickets,\u201d the man in his sixties said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think when we are sitting in business class for the first time ever it might finally sink in\u201d.<\/p>\n
While the man is making the dream of early retirement a reality, his wife is still in disbelief over their winnings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was at work when my husband called me and he sounded so calm that I wasn\u2019t sure it was really true. But here we are!\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The sexagenarian went on to admit that the biggest change for him after winning the jackpot, would be in his working life.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a relief to be able to pay off the mortgage, do some renovations and take early retirement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But he\u2019ll still be leaving plenty of cash aside to enjoy some adventures with his family.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to travel this year with our daughter \u2013 maybe go somewhere more exotic than our usual holiday destinations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Lotto winner hopefuls also looking to retire early and travel in style, can chance their luck for a win in Tuesday\u2019s $4 million Oz Lotto jackpot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple from a north-eastern Perth suburb are celebrating an early retirement and looking forward to travelling in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,1625,12067,46,45],"class_list":["post-784236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-lifestyle","tag-lotto","tag-perth","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}