Stephen Mayne

Yeah.

I wonder if the World Cup, can we say, you know, remember how the boss of FIFA gave Trump the FIFA Peace Prize?

Did the World Cup help get the deal done?

You know, you don't want to be at war while you're hosting the World Cup, you know.

I mean, the World Cup was set up in the 1930s initially to stop countries from fighting.

You know, save your fighting for the soccer pitch and stop going to war and

I reckon there's a bit in that.

The world's loving it and we're all enjoying, you know, national competition on the field, not at war.

And the Russians will be sitting there going, we're not even allowed to play because we're warmongers.

You know, we're missing out.

So peace in the Ukraine and come back to the next World Cup, Vlad.

Anyway.

Now, we should do interest rates before we do questions, Alan.

Nothing's moving but it's all still quite interesting, Australia and America.

Yeah.

They both feel about right, if you think about it.

Like inflation, you know, it's still a few worries, but it's not out of control.

The interest rates are not ridiculously low, you know, zero, you know, overstimulating.

We're not looking like recession, but it's not looking like... The stock market's strong, economy's good, but it's not...

And we've had our 75 basis points increases and they say the rates take a year to fully course through the economy.