Country Victorian mum claims record $15.5m property prize

Country Victorian Navy veteran Gail has won Australia’s biggest-ever prize-home giveaway, a $15.5m windfall that could bring her FIFO husband home and help her children into the property market. A country Victorian navy veteran’s $15.5m property windfall will bring her FIFO husband home after up to seven years working away and help her two children into the housing market. Just a day before learning she had won four luxury apartments on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, Gail had called her bank manager and decided her children would need to wait longer and save more before buying homes.RELATED: Vic Underbelly-linked racetrack, yours for $3m+Beetlejuice star Eddie Perfect sells secret ferret hideaway Brighton mansion hides wild $5.7m Batcave Her daughter, a theatre nurse, and son, who works at a primary school, had been trying to get into the market. “I just rung the manager up and said, ‘Look, we’re just going to wait a little bit longer. They’re going to save a bit more money’,” Gail said. “So now I’ve just said to them, ‘This will be possible’.” Her children initially told their parents to enjoy the prize themselves, but Gail said the windfall would change the whole family’s future. “...