Carter DavidRt Hon DAVID CARTER (National): As I listen to the Minister the Hon Eugenie Sage I realise that from that side of the House they see things through slightly rose-tinted glasses. On this side of the House having been here now for 18 months—and far too long—but having seen a number of Governments through the time that I've been an MP I have never seen a Government get into such a mess such disarray within 18 months. I've seen them get into this state after two terms and heading towards three. But after 18 months—let me just take two of their flagship policies as an example—KiwiBuild; we're now learning day after day as the Hon Judith Collins pulls poor Minister the Hon Phil Twyford to bits that in actual fact KiwiBuild now is about buying houses that have already been built that are on the open market and struggling to sell putting a KiwiBuild label on them and then finding they're near impossible to sell.Then you have the other flagship policy: the Provincial Growth Fund which we on this side of the House said at the time and we've now been proved right is nothing but a slush fund—a slush fund that's particularly focused on Northland where the Rt Hon Winston Peters and the Hon Shane Jones know their only way back into this House after the next election is with the safety of an electorate seat. They know they won't make 5 percent. They now have to spend taxpayers' money to make themselves popular in two electorates—the Northland electorate and the Whangarei electorate—in a desperate attempt to secure a seat. Well I want to tell them that they stand no chance against our superb members Matt King and Dr Shane Reti. They will do it and do it with ease.Then today we have further examples of the mess those Ministers are in. The Hon Shane Jones was on his feet having to excuse his extraordinary behaviour of attacking a journalist and saying he'll use parliamentary privilege to further attack that person. No apology from the Hon Shane Jones. We have the Hon Ron Mark trying to excuse himself after giving an appalling speech where he threatened to take funding off an organisation unless that organisation en masse voted for New Zealand First. Then we had the example of the Hon Damien O'Connor threatening to again reserve funding from an expert organisation involved in the evacuation of animals in a natural disaster on the basis that that organisation would dare criticise the Government.I do want to talk about capital gains tax in my closing couple of minutes and the effect that will have on agriculture and on the farming community. That's made the other side go quiet. What I found extraordinary is Damien O'Connor's comment in the New Zealand Herald that as of this day he has not read the Tax Working Group's report to know the effect it'll have on agriculture. That is just extraordinary—that he can claim to represent New Zealand farmers and he hasn't bothered to read the report that advocates for a capital gains tax advocates for a nitrogen tax advocates for a water tax advocates for an emissions tax and finally advocates for a fertiliser tax. What effect will all of those taxes have on New Zealand agriculture? He doesn't know and what's worse is the Labour Party doesn't know. It's now gone out with a survey amongst its members and the public: Have your say and tell us what we should think about the capital gains tax."I heard an extraordinary story about a particular stand at the Wānaka show over the last weekend. Mark Patterson that little-known New Zealand First member from somewhere down that end of the world—he had a stand and he put out a sign in front of his stand saying "Come and tell us what New Zealand First should do about the capital gains tax." It had a queue longer than the Ferris wheels. There was such a big queue of people in the Wānaka show wanting to tell Mark Patterson what to do with the capital gains tax. And I won't be rude—I'm sure a number of the farmers were particularly rude. Do you know what his response was? He took the sign down and shut up the tent. That's how embarrassed he was."