Yeah, that was the upshot from a local guy who writes on this sort of stuff - for us too.
Since we're a housing market with some tacked on industries, the whole jump in wholesale interest rates potential is gonna bite *real hard* on top of the recession our austerity-determined govt is deepening and extending.
Roll on 2025 when maybe people will kick Luxon, Seymour & Peters out if we're all still feeling the pain. π€
Yeah, seeing the back of those blokes would at least make the pain mean something π€π€
Sadly, I fear that it'll only help our Liberal/National coalition that started out conservative enough but is now racing off to the right-most horizon as fast as they can, and I don't think the current PM is up to the fight that'll be needed to fend them off next year. π€·ββοΈ
They can just recycle the 'NO' case that the Coalition and their Murdoch masters used in our referendum to recognise an Indigenous Voice to Parliament last year.
The proposition was as close to the least we could possibly do as you could get without actually doing nothing, but they demagogued against it with all the racism they could manage without actually reverting to 50s-style racist language. They got what they wanted, though π€·ββοΈ
It was disgusting, IMHO.