Retirement Age Policy Differences

Um look, I think there are some big shifts. You know, you've gone through a pandemic that people are pretty frustrated about. They're dealing with inflation, which they haven't seen for 30 something years, and they've also got technological disloc, you know, disruption coming. And then you've got the rise of you know social media as well, in the sense of, you know, Trevor might go down to the pub and and have a winch to his mates at the pub, but now Trevor gets on board with his keyboard and finds you know 10,000 people that have a similar sort of view. So there are some fundamental shifts in global politics, and whether I talk to leaders in other countries, they're all wrestling with the same grumpy tiny population dynamics. Um I think in both those cases, there's also a very strong, you know, illegal um unsupported immigration policies, and that has been very aggravating, understandably so to people. Uh here in New Zealand, that has not been our experience. We have actually tightened our settings in the last two years. We've moved from 70% low skilled to 70% high skilled. We've gone from 130,000 net migration to 25,000 net migration. So, you know, I appreciate there are some that want to play politics with immigration, but it's just a very different story here. Uh and I think that's because we've made it linked to infrastructure and economic growth.