Australia....the World's Happiest Country.

Having been to your fine country, it doesn't surprise me you guys are so happy.  Beautiful weather, thousands of miles of empty beaches and coastline, tropical rainforest, delicious seafood.  ;)

On the Australian political front, I can't resist posting this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFELLK8htKM

All those British political satires are going to need to step up their game.  They've just been outdone by reality.

At $2 million an hour, good old Gina must be the happiest Australian.

It's a good thing they downgraded the mining tax ... all those unhappy billionaires would lower the Aussie happy rating.

LOL re the clip .....Shorten is as thick as two short planks.....;p

probably wants them to grow a spine and get a job rather than waiting for handouts...

she doesn't kinda...look it...

wonder whose daughter he can marry next to get another foot up the political ladder...

sent the article to my American sister-in-law who is in the throws (Edit: throes    )    of coming to Australia to live.... she's a little nervous.... then again... her only personal experience of Australia is Cairns.... and she hates humidity.... and bugs......  

Yes....there's lots of buggers in Cairns....;)

.....Psssst....it's "throes" .... JAFOCHECK ...;)

  caught by the Jafo....

in my defense.... I'm having a red whine nite....        I thought it looked funny when I typed it....  

Nope ... she looks like someone who should be living in a caravan.

What does red "whine" taste like?   

She sounds like the kind of person I've met many times before, a complete and utter idiot.

   haven't heard that before...

Sydney syrup......    

You guys have The Wiggles. 'Nuff said.

and also the 'ruff red' and the 'whineing white'

harpo

You guy certainly have some of the most interesting swimming, walking, an hopping critters around.  They're endless amusement in themselves.

then again we do have some of the most stupid politicians in existence, eg the last six governments( they all seem to think that taxing everybody to death is going to improve the prosperity of the country, when all it does is to KILL the country)

harpo

My country, Canada, is similar to Australia in that respect. Opposite to that of the U.S., any of our governments here in Canada think the answer to everything is to raise taxes. There seems to be some strange corelation. The higher the taxes, the happier the population.

In the US of A they have all reasons to raise tax, so far at $40K per person per year spending. The problem there is no money to pay them (coming from someone who shares a house with missing shingles with its owner because can pay rent)  Maybe Gina would pay? FB going to mess up the economy if we don't get help from somewhere.

I would really like to avoid taxes entirely - maybe move to Australia? Does Gina like dogs?

Put away your Aussie propaganda. China, North Korea, and Cuba are the happiest countries. 

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/06/where-are-the-worlds-happiest-countries/

I actually don't get that Norway is #3. Norwegians complain a lot.......but then again, maybe we are happiest when we have something to complain about. That's why we love paying really high taxes!

that is ONLY if you believe the propaganda of their dis-information departments, personally I can not trust ANY form of official information 'service' or broker, especially when that are making money from supply of information & dis-information.

regarding the tax situation australia now has a carbon tax that appears to equate one ton of coal (carbon basically) with 20 tons of carbon in the air, AND taxes based upon the 20 tons of carbon in the air instead of the ONE ton that produced it, and has a GST of 10% on all transactions other than food ingredients (not all forms of food, just the ingredients), then has a wages tax that starts at only 15% for the first $37k, then jumps to 30% to $80k, then another jump to 37% up to $180k and 45% over the $180k, and on top of that there is the super tax, flood tax, fire tax, and as far as Iknow there might even be a politics tax(hope not, but the idiots in can'tberra want more taxes so that they can rake in more money, but they have not noticed that the entire economy is shrinking at about the rate of taxes).

so if you want to aviod or minimise tax then do NOT come to australia, you WILL be taxes into and IN the grave.

harpo

Who is Gina? B[]

Exactly me thought, too, Bryan....

Must be one of those US conditions where "if it's known here, the rest of the world must be aware of it too", that has infected the Aussies.

A fat ugly bitch with a lot of money she mostly inherited from her late father, Western Australian mining magnate, Lang Hancock.  She now heads his empire and is the richest Woman in Australia, soon the World

she is the richest woman in the world... with the potential to be the richest person in the world....  watch out Carlos...

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