Lotto: One ticketholder hits $1 million jackpot in Wednesday's Millionaire Medley draw
The ticketholder was the only player to scoop the eye-watering division one prize worth $1 million.
Another 12 punters — including three West Aussie ticketholders — will be celebrating windfalls to the tune of $4,648.85.
A handy wad totalling $546.45 will be making its way to the wallets of another 158 players who secured division three wins.
The winning numbers for draw #4573 were 26, 34, 36, 35, 29 and 3. The supps were 41 and 5.
It comes after a lucky streak in the west saw four ticketholders bag division one prizes in Saturday Lotto and Monday's draw.
Australind News & Post has been revealed as the store to have sold Monday's million-dollar slip.
Another three players banked division one wins worth more than $919,000 in Saturday Lotto, but none of the winners have come forward to claim their prize yet.
Lotterywest unveiled the winning tickets from the weekend were purchased from Good Fortune Lottery Centre in Maddington, Greenwood Village Newsagency and Lotterywest Play Online.
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The Age
10 hours ago
- The Age
Power, passion and … kilts? The origin story stirring up the past
It's always been about passion. Passion fuels the fans as they fall hopelessly in love with the principles and principals of Outlander. And it drives the story, keeping its characters simmering, in a romance for the ages. Outlander winds down with its eighth and final season next year, but no one could let it simply die, quietly slipping into endless syndication and eventual trivia questions. Universally beloved – except by those bestowing awards – the show had to go on. Filling that need, Outlander: Blood of My Blood premieres with two of its 10 episodes. (It's already renewed for a second season.) The prequel reveals the origin stories of Outlander's main characters, Claire and Jamie (Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan), by focusing on their parents. Fittingly, both sets of parents were also ruled by passion. 'The passion is also transferable,' says Hermione Corfield, who plays Claire's mother, Julia. 'You've got the romantic passion – a lot of the characters are driven by their hearts and are willing to do anything to follow their hearts. But I think that also applies for their passion to their clan, or to their families, or to their cause. Everyone is passionate and passionate in different shades, depending on what their main plight is.' Claire's parents, like their daughter, are book-smart, brave and methodical, relying on facts but also trusting their intuition. Claire's father, Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine), and mother leave her with her uncle, an archaeologist, for a holiday when she's six years old. This sort of casual detail reinforces the care with which the origin story is told. Claire grows into a logical, intellectually ravenous woman, whose sense of the explicable world is tested when she's forced to believe in time travel as she flits between post-World War II England and 18th-century Scotland. As several actors noted, viewers can come to the spin-off having never seen Outlander. For millions of loyal fans, however, the prequel will make perfect sense. The physical resemblances between parents and offspring are uncanny. It's startling how much Corfield resembles Balfe. Like her daughter, Julia wears her untamable hair pushed off her face, held back with a scarf from which curls escape. The casting is so spot-on that were anyone to glance at photos of Harriet Slater and Jamie Roy and imagine what their gorgeous child would look like, the result would be Heughan, the perfect morphing of these two. Loading 'We actually went to a look-alike competition to get these roles,' Roy says, deadpan. 'It wasn't an audition. It's just, you know, in a field with 100 guys, if you looked like Sam.' Roy had auditioned for Outlander but wasn't cast because he looks too much like Heughan. He breaks into a wide grin as he speaks with Slater, who has flaming red hair, like Heughan. Their characters are star-crossed lovers, the Romeo and Juliet tragedy. Coming from clans that hate each other, the kids are destined to fall in love. But they would not allow their passion to be extinguished. 'She's so complicated, which is what I love about her,' Slater says of her character, Ellen MacKenzie. 'She is very strong-willed. She's very smart. She is trapped in a situation. You know, she's a woman in 1714 Scotland. There are so many things she can't do or say. There are so many expectations put on her. She's expected to perform her duty and marry for the sake of the clan, but she doesn't want to do that. She's never wanted to do that, and her father always protected her from that. 'But at the start of the show, we see her vulnerable because he [her father, the laird] has just passed away, and her brothers use that immediately to their own advantage,' Slater continues. 'And start making plans for who they're going to marry her off to, in order to secure lairdship or whatever. And that's when she meets this guy and falls head over heels in love, and her whole world is turned upside-down because she never thought she'd feel this way. 'She's fully torn between wanting to be with him but knowing that he's from a rival clan, and that's just not done, and she wants to protect the clan at the same time and protect her family. So, it's a really tricky situation, but an exciting one to play.' Loading Longtime fans needn't fret. The prequel delivers what they crave. It's beautifully produced – some shots resemble Vermeer paintings – has haunting melodies, some dialogue in Gaelic and fierce fight scenes. It's designed to retain the saga's global fan base and lure in new devotees by living within the layered universe Diana Gabaldon created with her bestsellers. Her work forms the foundation for Outlander: Blood of My Blood. This phrase is invoked often in the first three episodes. People declare their allegiances, and never half-heartedly. Passion thrums through all. Honour, loyalty, fealty. Before these words were diluted into meaningless corporate mission statements, they represented selfless principles for which a man would give his life. When that man is a well-muscled, square-jawed Scotsman wrapped in a kilt, standing in the mists of the Highlands, passion gets elevated to frenzy. That passion is combustible with Jamie and Claire, consumed by the sort of love so singular that all else fades. It's the sort of connection people spend their lives seeking. Blood of My Blood takes viewers to familiar, yet slightly different times as the parents' epic love stories unfold in 1714 and 1917. Of course, time travel must be a constant, and the characters reflect their eras. The actors playing Claire's parents had an advantage because they're friends. 'We did a film called Fallen, which was part of a YA novel series,' Corfield says. 'We shot it about10 years ago. We met on a job in Budapest and stayed friends all these years.' Henry and Julia forge their bond intellectually, and when they can be together, it's incendiary. With both couples, their initial attraction is explosive, sparking reactions so profound their atomic matter must have been shuffled. Given Jamie's parents were born when marriages were arranged and women were considered chattel, options were limited. Ellen MacKenzie was a prize her brothers could use to sweeten a deal. Naturally, she's savvier than her brothers. On a publicity tour, having shot the first five episodes of the second season, Roy considers what drives his character, Brian Fraser. 'First of all, he's pragmatic,' Roy says. 'He can be quick-cutting when he needs to be, but he's honestly a man of very simple needs. He's a bastard, born out of wedlock. So, he doesn't have the same opportunities as a lot of men his age would have, and he won't have those, unfortunately. But he's very much made peace with that. He's very stoic in that sense, but he's extremely passionate.' 'They are all incredibly passionate people,' Slater, his onscreen wife, notes. 'It's not just necessarily romantically, although it is as well. There are so many other things that they are passionate about. Colum and Dougal [her brothers], they're so passionate about power.' Having already encountered fans at conventions, the actors realise a new level of celebrity could soon envelop them. They've talked about signing on to Outlander: Blood of My Blood for six years. However, nothing is definitive beyond the second season. All hinges on whether fans feel the Outlander alchemy in the prequel. Loading 'When we talk about the show, we say, ultimately, it's the lens that people will go to, get what they want, whether it's love, power, and respect – any of these things, but that's all really driven by passion,' Roy says. 'If they weren't passionate about it, then they wouldn't care. If you don't care, then, well, there'd be no story, right?' Outlander: Blood of my Blood premieres on Friday, August 8, on Stan, which is owned by Nine, the owner of this masthead.
Sydney Morning Herald
10 hours ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
Power, passion and … kilts? The origin story stirring up the past
It's always been about passion. Passion fuels the fans as they fall hopelessly in love with the principles and principals of Outlander. And it drives the story, keeping its characters simmering, in a romance for the ages. Outlander winds down with its eighth and final season next year, but no one could let it simply die, quietly slipping into endless syndication and eventual trivia questions. Universally beloved – except by those bestowing awards – the show had to go on. Filling that need, Outlander: Blood of My Blood premieres with two of its 10 episodes. (It's already renewed for a second season.) The prequel reveals the origin stories of Outlander's main characters, Claire and Jamie (Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan), by focusing on their parents. Fittingly, both sets of parents were also ruled by passion. 'The passion is also transferable,' says Hermione Corfield, who plays Claire's mother, Julia. 'You've got the romantic passion – a lot of the characters are driven by their hearts and are willing to do anything to follow their hearts. But I think that also applies for their passion to their clan, or to their families, or to their cause. Everyone is passionate and passionate in different shades, depending on what their main plight is.' Claire's parents, like their daughter, are book-smart, brave and methodical, relying on facts but also trusting their intuition. Claire's father, Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine), and mother leave her with her uncle, an archaeologist, for a holiday when she's six years old. This sort of casual detail reinforces the care with which the origin story is told. Claire grows into a logical, intellectually ravenous woman, whose sense of the explicable world is tested when she's forced to believe in time travel as she flits between post-World War II England and 18th-century Scotland. As several actors noted, viewers can come to the spin-off having never seen Outlander. For millions of loyal fans, however, the prequel will make perfect sense. The physical resemblances between parents and offspring are uncanny. It's startling how much Corfield resembles Balfe. Like her daughter, Julia wears her untamable hair pushed off her face, held back with a scarf from which curls escape. The casting is so spot-on that were anyone to glance at photos of Harriet Slater and Jamie Roy and imagine what their gorgeous child would look like, the result would be Heughan, the perfect morphing of these two. Loading 'We actually went to a look-alike competition to get these roles,' Roy says, deadpan. 'It wasn't an audition. It's just, you know, in a field with 100 guys, if you looked like Sam.' Roy had auditioned for Outlander but wasn't cast because he looks too much like Heughan. He breaks into a wide grin as he speaks with Slater, who has flaming red hair, like Heughan. Their characters are star-crossed lovers, the Romeo and Juliet tragedy. Coming from clans that hate each other, the kids are destined to fall in love. But they would not allow their passion to be extinguished. 'She's so complicated, which is what I love about her,' Slater says of her character, Ellen MacKenzie. 'She is very strong-willed. She's very smart. She is trapped in a situation. You know, she's a woman in 1714 Scotland. There are so many things she can't do or say. There are so many expectations put on her. She's expected to perform her duty and marry for the sake of the clan, but she doesn't want to do that. She's never wanted to do that, and her father always protected her from that. 'But at the start of the show, we see her vulnerable because he [her father, the laird] has just passed away, and her brothers use that immediately to their own advantage,' Slater continues. 'And start making plans for who they're going to marry her off to, in order to secure lairdship or whatever. And that's when she meets this guy and falls head over heels in love, and her whole world is turned upside-down because she never thought she'd feel this way. 'She's fully torn between wanting to be with him but knowing that he's from a rival clan, and that's just not done, and she wants to protect the clan at the same time and protect her family. So, it's a really tricky situation, but an exciting one to play.' Loading Longtime fans needn't fret. The prequel delivers what they crave. It's beautifully produced – some shots resemble Vermeer paintings – has haunting melodies, some dialogue in Gaelic and fierce fight scenes. It's designed to retain the saga's global fan base and lure in new devotees by living within the layered universe Diana Gabaldon created with her bestsellers. Her work forms the foundation for Outlander: Blood of My Blood. This phrase is invoked often in the first three episodes. People declare their allegiances, and never half-heartedly. Passion thrums through all. Honour, loyalty, fealty. Before these words were diluted into meaningless corporate mission statements, they represented selfless principles for which a man would give his life. When that man is a well-muscled, square-jawed Scotsman wrapped in a kilt, standing in the mists of the Highlands, passion gets elevated to frenzy. That passion is combustible with Jamie and Claire, consumed by the sort of love so singular that all else fades. It's the sort of connection people spend their lives seeking. Blood of My Blood takes viewers to familiar, yet slightly different times as the parents' epic love stories unfold in 1714 and 1917. Of course, time travel must be a constant, and the characters reflect their eras. The actors playing Claire's parents had an advantage because they're friends. 'We did a film called Fallen, which was part of a YA novel series,' Corfield says. 'We shot it about10 years ago. We met on a job in Budapest and stayed friends all these years.' Henry and Julia forge their bond intellectually, and when they can be together, it's incendiary. With both couples, their initial attraction is explosive, sparking reactions so profound their atomic matter must have been shuffled. Given Jamie's parents were born when marriages were arranged and women were considered chattel, options were limited. Ellen MacKenzie was a prize her brothers could use to sweeten a deal. Naturally, she's savvier than her brothers. On a publicity tour, having shot the first five episodes of the second season, Roy considers what drives his character, Brian Fraser. 'First of all, he's pragmatic,' Roy says. 'He can be quick-cutting when he needs to be, but he's honestly a man of very simple needs. He's a bastard, born out of wedlock. So, he doesn't have the same opportunities as a lot of men his age would have, and he won't have those, unfortunately. But he's very much made peace with that. He's very stoic in that sense, but he's extremely passionate.' 'They are all incredibly passionate people,' Slater, his onscreen wife, notes. 'It's not just necessarily romantically, although it is as well. There are so many other things that they are passionate about. Colum and Dougal [her brothers], they're so passionate about power.' Having already encountered fans at conventions, the actors realise a new level of celebrity could soon envelop them. They've talked about signing on to Outlander: Blood of My Blood for six years. However, nothing is definitive beyond the second season. All hinges on whether fans feel the Outlander alchemy in the prequel. Loading 'When we talk about the show, we say, ultimately, it's the lens that people will go to, get what they want, whether it's love, power, and respect – any of these things, but that's all really driven by passion,' Roy says. 'If they weren't passionate about it, then they wouldn't care. If you don't care, then, well, there'd be no story, right?' Outlander: Blood of my Blood premieres on Friday, August 8, on Stan, which is owned by Nine, the owner of this masthead.
West Australian
2 days ago
- West Australian
Stella Rimington, first UK female spy boss, dies at 90
Stella Rimington, the first female director general of Britain's MI5 security and counter-intelligence service who ushered in an era of greater transparency at the agency, has died aged 90. Rimington, who ran the domestic security agency between 1992 and 1996, was its first head to be publicly named and later wrote a memoir Open Secret about her career at the formerly secretive organisation. She went on to write a series of espionage novels and is also widely thought to have inspired actor Judy Dench's tough but playful characterisation of the fictional spymaster 'M' in several James Bond movies. "She died surrounded by her beloved family and dogs and determinedly held on to the life she loved until her last breath," a family statement quoted by local media said on Monday. Rimington was given one of the British state's highest honours when she was made a dame in 1996. She joined MI5 in 1969 and worked in roles including counter-subversion and counter-terrorism. Under her leadership MI5 took a more prominent role in Britain's fight against Irish republican militants, according to a profile on the MI5 website. "As the first avowed female head of any intelligence agency in the world, Dame Stella broke through long-standing barriers and was a visible example of the importance of diversity in leadership," current MI5 Director General Ken McCallum said in a statement. She committed the agency to a more transparent approach to its work, softening its post-Cold War image. "We are, of course, obliged to keep information secret in order to be effective, this is not to say that we should necessarily be a wholly secret organisation," she said in a publicly broadcast 1994 lecture. "Secrecy is not imposed for its own sake. It is not an end in itself." Foreshadowing her later literary career, Rimington opened that same speech with a nod to the British spy novel tradition and the fascination with the security services it had inspired among the general public. "It is exciting stuff and has led to the creation of many myths - and some lurid speculation - about our work. I must admit that it is with some hesitation that I set out tonight to shed some daylight," she said. "I have a sneaking feeling that the fiction may turn out to be more fun than the reality."
