Governments on both left and right have more or less given up on introducing policies to boost investment in business to increase labour productivity. So immigration is needed to keep the economy alive. And be sure that if house prices looked like they were going to drop meaningfully they would find ways to keep the Ponzi scheme from collapsing. Unless they wanted to face electoral oblivion. Our three year parliamentary terms will ensure that.
"From 1996 to 2022, the average annual growth in labour productivity in New Zealand was 1.3 percent, compared with 1.9 percent in Australia."
"Part of this difference could be explained by Australia’s higher levels of capital investment. Growth in Australia’s capital inputs has averaged 3.9 percent per year compared with New Zealand’s 2.8 percent"
https://www.stats.govt.nz/informatio...ics-1978-2022/
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