Just paid the equivalent of 1.48 GBP for a litre of 95 here, back in 2000 we were half the price of UK for petrol , Diesel still is but this year inflation will run rampant in NZ.
New Zealand has definitely been through a massive housing price boom, I was looking at buying a property down there and wished I had done so in the early '00's when £ was worth NZ$3.4 at one point and the house prices a faction of the prices they are today. I spent Xmas and New Year for many years between NZ and OZ in the late 90's and 00's and one of the great gestures in NZ I remember at Xmas as the everyone seemed to be on the move for Xmas the fuel companies would reduce the petrol prices usually around Xmas eve.