SpeechRt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Deputy Prime Minister): Today I am going to outline the truth about the leak of my superannuation. There have been news reports about the case. The matter is not sub judice. But a source totally connected to both the ACT Party and the National Party has revealed that the leak was one Rachel Morton. Morton heard about the case because she was present when former Minister Anne Tolley told her ministerial colleague Paula Bennett about it—not outside by the lifts but in a ministerial office. Ms Morton then thinking it would be kept in confidence told ACT Party leader David Seymour but desperate for any sort of attention Mr Seymour contacted Jordan Williams of the wage subsidy - receiving Taxpayers' Union fame. Williams—no stranger to dirty politics—told John Bishop father of National MP Chris Bishop and the details were then leaked to Newsroom's Tim Murphy. Williams also told another dirty politics practitioner National Party pollster David Farrer. Farrar tried to shut it down seeing the risk it exposed to the National Party but then went along anyway although he later tried to steer the story away from National's guilt which is his usual modus operandi. But Newshub wanted to control the story. Barry Soper and Newshub knew more about the story than Tim Murphy who nevertheless tweeted about—and I quote him—the mother of all scandals" about to break a day before the story leaked publicly. Ms Morton used to work for Newshub and Newstalk ZB. Newshub was trying its best to protect her after David Seymour tried to get the story leaked through channels not connected with Morton. Three Newshub journalists—Jenna Lynch Lloyd Burr and Patrick Gower—looked collectively stunned when they were told that they had burnt Ms Morton as a source. They knew they'd been tumbled. When this was put to the Newshub reporters that it would also expose National and Jordan Williams' dealings with Tim Murphy one of the Newshub journalists paused and said that National were "distancing themselves" from the story but it was an ACT-inspired hit job to damage me politically in collaboration with a senior National Party staffer Rachel Morton who was the source of the leak and the source that led to Jordan Williams weaponising the information during the election campaign. Every last one of them—Morton Seymour Williams Bishop Murphy Farrar—played dirty politics to breach my inalienable right and the inalienable right of every New Zealander to privacy. My source also revealed that National Party members joked amongst themselves about the leak but realised they couldn't do anything with the "no-surprises disclosure"—their risk was too high. That of course didn't prevent Ms Tolley from telling her sister nor did it prevent 42 people being made aware of my super case. All it took was for that private information to fall into the hands of David Seymour who craved media attention but couldn't claim the limelight because that would have placed a spotlight on Rachel Morton his source. This is what dirty politics looks like. That's why I have brought this case on principle at a huge cost—the principle of privacy. The collusion between the National Party ACT and these grubby figures in and around politics is what turns people off politics. The characters in the story of my super leak viewed dirty politics as their religion but it's the worship of jackals by jackasses. What I now know and I didn't know it as I went to court is that during my court case there were witnesses who gave evidence who knew the truth even as they were not speaking it and journalists—but not Barry Soper—who sat in the court who knew the truth but printed a tissue of lies. That I now know. Shame on them but now they've been exposed for what they truly are. Maybe Mr Seymour could tell the precise circumstances in which he was told this information. Will he tell them or will I have to? This has been a disgrace and Mr Seymour is now outed. I have got the witness I never had at the court. The judge said to me "But you must tell me who did it." as though—with all their resources—one man against them paying for his own costs could be expected to do that. Mr Seymour I am resolved that this is day one of the truth fightback and he is going to be in my line."