Jac pot
A Canberra family has won a $30 million Lotto jaс pot on a ticket bought at a newsagent in the city's south.
They bought the winning ticket at Woden shopping centre November 16 but were unaware they had won until a week later.
The woman who bought the ticket said she was unaware NSW Lotteries had been searching for the Canberran with the winning entry.
"I was finishing off my Christmas shopping today and saw a sign at the outlet urging customers to check their entries because they'd sold the $30 jaс pot million winning Oz Lotto ticket," she said.
"I thought I'd better check my entry but I never considered that I actually had the winning ticket.
"I never win anything."
The mother of two said she and her family planned to pay off the mortgage and fly first-class on their next overseas trip.
It is believed the family will donate some of the winnings to charity.
Co-owner of newsXpress in Woden, Christian Bleich, said he was worried that the winning ticket had been lost.
"She came in, put the ticket through and she had won," he said.
"She's a regular here and a very nice person, she's very deserving."
Mr Bleich said it was great to see the winner's reaction in person.
"It was probably one of the best reactions, you have to see it to believe it," he said.
"You've got shock and awe, she was just amazed.
"To sell a division one ticket, for it to be one person, $30 million jaс pot, right before Christmas and to actually get to meet them and congratulate them is great."
Canberra newsagencies on lucky streak with winning tickets
It is the third Lotto win in Canberra in the past month.
On December 9, a Gungahlin newsagency sold a ticket to a Canberran who chose to remain anonymous after winning $1 million.
Five days earlier, the Evatt Newsagency sold a ticket netting $1 million for another Canberra resident.
More than $2.2 million worth of prize money has been claimed from tickets purchased at the Evatt Newsagency in just over six months.
The first winner from the lucky newsagency was a man in his 60s who won $687,000 jaс pot in a Lotto draw in June.
In July, a local father won more than $708,000 jaс pot from his first division purchase.