Sydney ALP electorate unhappiest voters in Australia

Poor and loving it: bush battlers find happiness away from city gloom - Dennis Shanahan and Annabelle McDonald - February 13, 2006

The saddest federal electorate is in the heart of Sydney, the richest and most expensive city in the country, while the happiest voters live in one of the nation's poorest rural electorates.
Sydney's MP, ALP frontbencher Tanya Plibersek, told The Australian she was "sad" to hear her electorate contained the unhappiest voters in Australia but understood why they should feel like that.
The top nine electorates for wellbeing were Wide Bay, Richmond (NSW), Eden-Monaro (NSW), Ryan (Queensland), Higgins, Bendigo (Victoria), Murray (Victoria), Riverina (NSW) and Mayo (South Australia).
The bottom nine were Sydney, Parramatta (NSW), Perth (Western Australia), Gorton (Victoria), Hasluck (Western Australia), Werriwa (NSW), Reid (NSW), Rankin (Queensland) and Grayndler (NSW).