Nice money if you can get it

[Guinevere]

I was in single digits when this song came out, probably listening to more John Denver than rock at the time, and I knew exactly what Gob was referring to. Pretty sure that makes him right about "one of the greatest hooks."

[Gob]

More good news for us 'berrans

The ACT enjoys the highest level of wellbeing in the country, leading otherstates and territories in six of eight categories, according to OECD research.

The regional wellbeing report compared 362 regions across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s 34 member countries. The rankings out of 10 gave the ACT a perfect score on crime, average household disposable income, and voter turnout. Howver these figures were not as good as those for American workers on Norwegian oil rigs.

The territory also topped Australia inhealthcare, unemployment, access to services, and education.

Ben Phillips, principal research fellow at the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, said the results were not surprising as the ACT was statistically the best state or territory in Australia.

''We've known for a long time that Canberra had the highest income of major Australian capital cities,'' he said. ''It has had the lowest unemployment rate of major capital cities and either the top, or close to the top, life expectancy. By all the major statistics, Canberra comes out on top in Australia.

"We've got high rates of education and high rates of employment. Drop-out rates from high school are very low, so you've really got a much better educated population in Canberra than you doin most other parts of the country, and that would stack up favourably to the rest of the world.''



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