{"id":818923,"date":"2026-07-23T15:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818923\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:11:11","slug":"couple-wins-40-million-powerball-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818923\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple wins $40 million Powerball jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A middle-aged couple say they will retire immediately after winning the entire $40 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/powerball-26l7\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Powerball<\/a> jackpot on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The pair from Kenmore in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/brisbane-7hm\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane<\/a> swore as they were told the news in a phone call, according to lottery officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/lottery-26ke\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Lott<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c13f9538ee815b913ad67769518675cd4a567325f8d16293df30a85b13133a5f.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">As well as the entire $40 million jackpot, the couple won the second division 19 times, adding more than $700,000 extra to their total winnings.\u00a0The Lott<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you kidding me? I can\u2019t believe this. My heart is racing,\u201d the man said, his wife adding that \u201cthis can\u2019t be real\u201d and saying they were joking when the phone rang that it might be regarding the lottery.<\/p>\n<p>The winning numbers in Powerball draw 1575 on Thursday, July 23 were 12, 27, 7, 18, 30, 11 and 34. The Powerball was 16.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the entire $40 million jackpot, the couple won the second division 19 times, adding more than $700,000 extra to their total winnings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m stoked. I feel like crying,\u201d the man, whose actual age was not provided, said, according to The Lott.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis changes everything for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve dreamt of this, but never imagined this happening to us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll pay off the mortgage and set up the kids and family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs for work &#8230; we\u2019re done. We were just saying the other day, \u2018Isn\u2019t there more to life than this?\u2019 And now there is and we\u2019re going to enjoy it to the full and make the most of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A middle-aged couple say they will retire immediately after winning the entire $40 million Powerball jackpot on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-818923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818923","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=818923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}