A Brisbane woman has been revealed as the lucky lone winner of Australia’s latest $100,000 million jackpot – but it was a close-run thing.

The woman, from Aspley in Brisbane’s north, came forward on Friday morning after pleas from lottery officials.

But she told them she’d almost lost her winning Powerball ticket – twice.

On Friday morning, she had to scrabble around in the glovebox of her car to find it after hearing of a mystery winner in Brisbane from Thursday’s mega-draw.

“It’s a funny story. At the start of the year, I had a really strange feeling I was going to win a major lottery prize,” she said.

“I told my parents about it, they said, ‘Don’t be crazy’, but I just had this strong feeling.”

Despite that, she hadn’t played Powerball until this week.

“I thought, ‘Well, how am I going to win if I don’t buy a ticket?’,” she said.

“I was shopping the other day, and it’s coming up to my birthday, so I thought ‘Why not?’ and purchased a Powerball ticket.

“The funny thing is too, I almost lost it. I had to pull over on the way home from the shops because I thought I had left it there.

“After that, I put it in my glovebox, and I completely forgot about it until this morning.”

The woman held the only division one winning entry in Thursday’s Powerball draw, and pockets the entire $100 million jackpot.

The Lott officials said she is Queensland’s biggest lottery winner, as well as the third-biggest lottery winner in Australian history. It is only the sixth time an Australian lottery winner has collected a prize of $100 million or more.

“I’m scared to breathe in case this isn’t real. We’re in complete shock,” the winning ticket-holder said.

She’s yet to decide how she and her family will spend their mammoth windfall.

“We don’t even know what’s next. We’ve worked so hard our whole lives for everything we’ve had, and we really don’t live a lavish lifestyle,” she said.

“We’d like to do some travelling. Maybe a family holiday somewhere. We’ve always wanted to go see New Zealand and Fiji.

“It’s so weird. I can’t even say it out loud right now.

Her winning entry was bought at Nextra Chermside Newsagency in  Chermside. Owner Shannon Hickey said it was exciting to have sold another division one-winning ticket.

“We counted up the other day and realised we’d sold division one-winning tickets worth more than $64 million. Now we’ve sold over $164 million,” he said.

“It’s just fantastic and means we are the luckiest store in Australia.”

The winning numbers from Thursday’s Powerball draw 1475 were 16, 24, 11, 4, 10, 18 and 23, with Powerball number 6.

There were also 3,389,212 wins across divisions two to nine who collectively took home $67,789,677.20, along with 10 division two winners who each scored $188,606.60.

The Lott expected up to half of the Australian adult population to enter the draw for Powerball’s biggest win of 2024.

The odds of getting all seven numbers and the Powerball correct are one in 134,490,400, according to Gambler’s Help and The Lott.