Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: The consensus among economists had been that unemployment would fall to 4.4 percent. The result is also well below Treasury's Budget 2021 update, which forecast unemployment to be 5.2 percent in the June 2021 quarter. In its review of the data, BNZ's economists called the labour market report a "stonker" and that everything about the labour market data was stronger. ASB's economists expect the momentum for demand in the labour market to continue due to New Zealand's resilient economy. The ANZ bank added that it thinks it's only the beginning of strong wage rises this year. There are some who can always see the negative whereas on this side of the House we can see New Zealanders working hard and getting the reward for that work.