Peters Winston: Taxation (Depreciation Payment Dates Alignment FBT and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill — Instruction to Committee In Committee 
Peters Winston: Taxation (Depreciation Payment Dates Alignment FBT and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill — Instruction to Committee In Committee 
[Volume:630;Page:2020] 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
: 
 I rise to correct a few misrepresentations that were made to the House before the tea break. For example New Zealand First’s racing policy was not on the website in 2002 as Mr Tisch told the House but on 18 July 2001. If one is going to steal someone else’s policy— 
The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson) 
: Is this a point of order? 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: No no—this gets to the substance of what this legislation is all about. 
The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson) 
: OK. I thought the member was making a point of order on misrepresentation. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: In particular it goes to the two Supplementary Order Papers that stand in our name. 
The second thing I want to say to Mr Tisch is that if we look at the various divisions of racing we see that on 16 March shortly after the announcement of the policy New Zealand Bloodstock announced a date change for national brood mare sales. 
Lindsay Tisch 
: We’re not arguing about that. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Actually you were. 
Lindsay Tisch 
: No I wasn’t. I’m talking about the— 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Do you think that the people in the racing industry— 
The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson) 
: Order! 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Does the member not think the members of the racing industry and the thoroughbred industry in particular are people with some serious discretionary cash because they are successful businessmen and women? That is why they are in racing—because they know a bit about it. Those people deal in the hundreds of millions as opposed to that member and his party. New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Inc. put out on 10 March a statement that it was thrilled with the announcement on tax—nothing so miserly and mean as National sought to state in the House this afternoon. 
Lindsay Tisch 
: We’re actually supporting this. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Well the member should support it with generosity not with the pretence that it is actually the policy of the member’s party when he knows full well that that ain’t true. One headline read: “landmark package to racing & breeding industry”. Another press release—and I could go on; this is only a sort of montage—announced that Harness Racing New Zealand which is a pretty big division of racing in this country was “delighted” by the tax equity decision. There is nothing about what Mr Tisch talked about. But of course they might know a bit about racing and the member does not. Even the  
Southland Times 
—way down in the far reaches of the deep south which is a very forgotten territory but no more when it comes to racing—states: “Duty reduction pleases industry” and on and on it goes. The  
New Zealand Herald 
 is hardly known as being a fan of New Zealand First—and even less a fan of Winston Peters the Minister for Racing—but it states: “Peters onto a racing winner”. I say to the gentleman that sometimes as Ronald Reagan used to say: “You can’t argue against success.” 
Dr the Hon Lockwood Smith 
: Winston ran out of puff. 
The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson) 
: The member may not refer to members by their first name. It is either their full name their title or their portfolio.