Fed: Australian amongst the world's happiest people

AAP General News (Australia)
04-13-2006
Fed: Australian amongst the world's happiest people

A truckload of cash .. the right to vote and some fine weather .. this is what researchers
say makes Australians some of the happiest people in the world.

A new study .. led by Dr ANDREW LEIGH of the Australian National University .. has
analysed a mass of happiness data obtained over the past six decades.

The paper's been prepared as a rebuttal of a 2005 claim by British researchers .. that
Australia represents a happiness paradox.

The argument ran that although Australia ranked highly on the United Nations Human
Development Index .. its citizens were generally unhappy with their lot.

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KEYWORD: HAPPINESS (CANBERRA)

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