In my brief contribution on behalf of the Green Party of Aotearoa today, I want to focus on the issue of tertiary education, and I want to just put a few numbers out there to begin with. If anybody wants to shout it out or to contribute, guess what these numbers are: 1.33 million—1.33 million New Zealanders have taken out student loans since they were introduced in 1992. Then $220,630: $220,630 is the current average balance on a student loan. And $16 billion is a figure that should resonate, at least with a few tertiary education spokespeople in the room, given that it was this year that the New Zealand Union of Students' Associations celebrated, or perhaps lamented, the $16 billion worth of student debt which that currently sits at. 