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23 August 1984 Four Members Having Risen in Their Places, HON 1172 1172[COUNCIL] to rise in their places indicating their support for ?LPigiaatii lounriI it. Thursday, 23 August 1984 Four members having risen in their places, HON. NEIL OLIVER (West) 12.38 p.m.]: I move- THE PRESIDENT (Hon. Clive Griffiths) took That the Council at its rising adjourn until the Chair at 2.30 p.m.. and read prayers. Monday, 24 December 1984, at 4.30 p.m. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Last year I made strong representations to the Sitting Times State Government on the likelihood of the impo- sition of some form of tax on the grape-growing THE PRESIDENT (Hon. Clive Griffiths): and wine industry in this State. Some three Honourable members, before I proceed to the next months prior to making that representation in this itemn, I just mention that I have discussed with House, the former Leader of the Opposition sent a Government Ministers the prospect of our not telex to the Prime Minister and some two months adjourning at 3.45 p.m. for afternoon tea today, prior to the Federal Budget's being handed down, and the Government may move to adjourn the a telex was sent to the Treasurer (Hon. Paul House so that members may attend a (unction Keating). which I understand is being held at approximately 4.30 p.m. On that basis, I would have thought some con- sideration would have been given by the Federal SALES TAX: WINE Government to the grape-growing and wine indus- try in Australia. Urgency Motion On l8 August, 1 raised this matter during the THE PRESIDENT (Hon. Clive Griffiths): I adjournment debate, because I was becoming have received the following letter- increasingly concerned that the Federal Govern- Dear Mr President, ment was not wavering in its conviction to impose In accordance with Standing Order 63, 1 a tax. wish to advise you of my desire to move for In this House on that date, I urged the Govern- the adjournment of the House until Monday, ment to make representations to Mr Keating to 24 December 1984, at 4.30 pm, for the pur- ensure that no impositions were put on the grape pose of requesting the State Government to and wine industry which is essentially an agricul- make urgent representation to the Prime tural industry in Western Australia and through- Minister for the deletion or' the new tax to be out Australia. That plea completely fell on deaf applied to the Wine Industry introduced in ears to the extent that a most horrendous tax was Tuesday's Federal Budget- placed upon the wine industry-the fortified spirit Because this tax will- tax. We all know that that tax proved to be a total and utter disaster to the Government in its en- (a) Jeopardise the livelihood of hundreds of deavours to obtain additional revenue. On that small grapegrowers and wineniakers in occasion I said, "This ill-conceived and iniquitous this State; fortified spirit tax had to be abandoned by the (b) create undue hardship for grapegrowers Government, particularly after a promise by the and winemakers who have yet to recover Prime Minister that there would not be a tax." fromt the ill-conceived and iniquitous for- During the Mundaring by-election, the Prime tified spirit lax recently abandoned by Minister at a meeting at Herne Hill made a prom- the Hawkc Government; ise to Over 300 people present, including me, that a (c) create further unemployment; tax would not be imposed on wine and that he (d) and is a repudiation of electoral promises would use every one of his best endeavours to made prior to the last Federal and remove that tax. With the undertaking he gave at of Mundaring by-election by Prime Minis- that meeting he said that due to the constraints ter Hawke. the Budget, and because he had just taken over the reins of Government and therefore he was uncer- Sincerely tain about deficits, etc., he did not know whether Hon. Neil Oliver. MLC, it was possible to do anything about it. This iniqui- Member for West Province. tous fortified spirit tax gained nothing for revenue As members are aware, in order to comply with into the Federal coffers. Nothing was done. In Standing Order No. 63, before this motion can be fact, the situation reached such a state that one of considered, it will be necessary for four members Mr Hawke's own Ministers visited the Swan Val- [Thursday, 23 August 19841 171173 icy and criticised the Federal Government for this seats. Therefore the wine industry of South tax. I do not have a copy of it, but an article was Australia has a larger clout, if I could call it that, printed about it in an issue of the Stock and Land Or possibly Mr John Bannon has a larger clout newspaper. The Minister for Primary Industry than Premier Burke because Premier Burke goes said that the decision to tax fortified wine was along with everything that Prime Minister Hawke wrong and that it was out of his control when the says. He in fact invited Prime Minister Hawke Budget was being framed. He said he fought into the Swan Valley and the Shire of Mundaring against the tax, but could not get it reduced any to make these incredible statements that there lower than $1 .50 a litre of alcohol processed. Fur- would not be a wine tax, yet today this tax is about thermore, it was reported in the National Farmer to be enshrined in the Statutes. that- I do not wish to continue these remarks. I know major wine makers say they can no longer the House has a lot of business to deal with. I afford to make the volumes of port and sherry make the point that if the Burke Government is they used to. more than 30 workers have been fair dinkum about the matter, it should not start laid off. wriggling off the hook and sending members So even after representations by the Leader of the around their electorates to ring up on the phones; Opposition in this State to the Prime Minister and it should come out quite clearly and say where it to the Treasurer, and my pleading with the State stands, not just make statements calling for in- Government to make representations on behalf of quiries or a re-examination of the industry. I have the industry, nothing was done. When I stood to already spoken about that. We have had enough move this motion today I thought, "Where will inquiries. We have had enough of those. This is this get me?" I have great news. My phones are the way the Labor Party governs. It takes matters running hot. The member for Mundaring and the away from the Parliament. Let us have some in- member for Helena-I do not know what the quiries. Let us have a commission. Let us really member for Helena has to do with it-are today get down to the truth of it, and that is, that the racing around the electorates ringing up on the wine makers, particularly those in the Swan Val- phones in addition to travelling around and trying ley-I use the Swan Valley because it is my own to dissociate themselves from the Federal Govern- electorate, but my statement is equally applicable ment over this issue. So therefore I am quite cer- to the areas represented by Hon. Vic Ferry, Hon. tain that my motion will be accepted by the A. A. Lewis, and Hon. Tom Knight-will be af- Government because of the manner in which other fected. The wine makers of this State are vital and members of the Government, members who rep- important to agricultural industries in their own resent the areas affected by this tax, are acting. I right, just as-and this is the Premier's great imagine they are in agreement with the Govern- white horse-is the tourist industry. ment's intentions. The member for Mundaring It is a very important adjunct to the tourist and the member for Helena are obviously in industry, as the Premier has said on many oc- agreement with the State and Federal Govern- casions. The Burke and Hawke Labor Govern- ments. We know where Mr Burke stands on this ments have expressed su~pport for tourism, and the matter. Mr Burke goes along with nifty Neville best demonstration for that support would have and the Prime Minister, but Mr John Bannon will been to leave the grape and wine industry alone in not, because on the subject of the fortified wine this Budget and shelve any wine tax proposals. and spirit tax, Mr Bannon told Mr Hawke that he would lose between two and three seats at the next When the Minister replies to me, I do not want Federal election. I can assure members that the to hear him wriggling off the hook by saying that removal of the fortified spirit tax had nothing the effects of this tax are not very great and that whatsoever to do with the industry, with the fact the Government has found out it will not have that no revenue had been raised, or with the fact much effect at the moment. I cannot accept that that the cost of raisins the tax exceeded the as an answer. I would agree with him in relation to amount of revenue raised. It had nothing whatso- the effects today and for the next three months, or ever to do with the fact that distilleries were for the cur-rent vintage year.
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