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let's discuss more with mary jo vergara, senior economist at kiwibank. mary jo, thanks so much for joining us. so no change expected, but we have something else that's not really changing in new zealand as well, and that's inflation. if we take a look at this chart on the bloomberg, we can see that it remains very sticky. so how confident can we be that even if the rbnz stays on hold today, that this really is the end of the tightening cycle? that's our expectation that the reserve bank is done here at 550. we're now past the peak in inflation. we're seeing that disinflation that we've seen offshore starting to happen in our own numbers. that sharp deceleration in imported inflation should start to carry that headline rate lower. so and there's also favorable base effects in play with those last year's spike in in energy and food prices beginning to fall out of annual calculations. so we do see momentum there. we could see the the the inflation rate here with a 4% handle by the end of the year. it's just getting to that 2% rate, that sort of final mile.