Here’s some detail about what makes a Nation happy. Australia is tenth, USA 17th and UK 22nd. Curiously enough, the winners are northern european. Of course, our Murdoch dominated media, pounding the pulpit that we can only be winners with free market, low tax, small government, insisting that these countries are quite the opposite, socialist, nanny state no hopers. How much worse can our media get?

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