He knows if you've been bad or good

Sanctimonious Claus is comin' to town, in the form of Dr. Clive Hamilton of leftie thinktank the Australia Institute. Everytime you think you're enjoying something, Dr. Clive pops up with a survey to let you know just how wrong you are. Amazingly, all of Clive's surveys always come up with exactly the results that fit the philosophical framework of his modestly-named institute: rich people are awful, 4WD drivers are vile sexually-inadequate homophobes, economic growth is evil, etc.

Now he's here to tell us that we're giving presents to people we don't like, and getting useless things we don't want:

Given the widespread prevalence of unwanted gifts and unwanted giving, the survey also asked Australians if they would be happy if somebody made a donation to a charity on their behalf rather than giving them a present for Christmas. Nearly three quarters (73 per cent) said they would be happy, with women in particular (83 per cent) pleased to see a charity benefit (only 63 per cent of men feel the same way). Oddly, Tasmanians appear to be much more reluctant than other Australians to accept a charitable donation instead of a present.

Got that? Men are greedier than women, and Tasmanians are greedier than anybody.