A forest farmer in rural New South Wales has paid $19,000 at auction to buy a tiny slice of his driveway that he always thought he owned but actually belonged to a man who died 65 years ago.
Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council sold off 24 properties that had fallen behind on rates at the auction.
He has spent years transforming the property in the state's Southern Tablelands into an award-winning truffle and forest farm, with no idea that the rates on that tiny slice of land had gone unpaid for decades, racking up a debt of tens of thousands of dollars.
"I didn't learn it 35 years ago when I thought I'd bought it, I learned it when the neighbour rang up a month before the auction," he said.
Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE
Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-11/man-forced-to-buy-driveway-for-19k-at-nsw-auction/105398678
ABC NEWS provides around the clock coverage of news events as they break in Australia and abroad. It's news when you want it, from Australia's most trusted news organisation.
For more from ABC NEWS, click here: https://ab.co/2kxYCZY
Watch more ABC NEWS content ad-free on ABC iview: https://ab.co/2OB7Mk1
Go deeper on our ABC NEWS In-depth channel: https://ab.co/2lNeBn2
Like ABC NEWS on Facebook: http://facebook.com/abcnews.au
Follow ABC NEWS on Instagram: http://instagram.com/abcnews_au
Follow ABC NEWS on X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/abcnews
Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated.
#ABCNEWS #ABCNEWSAustralia
--
Support podtube.me continuity as a free service. Become a Patreon or make an one-time donation
--
Video at Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0c5pZd26nY