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Winning the lottery is an Australian fantasy, but for many, it's a curse. Shocking tales reveal broken families, bankruptcies, and shattered lives as millions vanish.
Canberra in those far-off days was regarded as a joke by the rest of Australia. The essence of this ridicule was the notion of a 'Bush Capital' making even less impression on the visitor than such neighbouring country towns as Goulburn. compared to the great coastal cities, whence most of Canberra’s population was embarrassingly unimpressive
Winning the lottery isn't just seen as the answer to most Australians' money worries, it's become a metaphor for the best luck imaginable in life.
Warner Russell’s reporting career involved many of the biggest stories of the time, including the royal assassination plot and the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt.
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