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Supporting our senior New Zealanders
Andrew Bayly
September 07, 2023
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National has always had senior citizens’ welfare at the heart of its policies.

Watch out, potholes about!
Andrew Bayly
August 07, 2023
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Driving around the region these days and along state highways is like playing a game of dodgeball. Avoiding the potholes has become a daily ritual.

Rising crime a worry
Andrew Bayly
July 06, 2023
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I have held a number of public meetings across the electorate in the last few months and at every one of them, the issue of rising crime has come up.

Are solar farms the answer to boosting our energy sources?
Andrew Bayly
June 02, 2023
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News in April that an agreement had been signed between Island Green Power (IGP) and mana whenua for a 600 ha solar farm in north Waikato has raised the issue of protecting our elite soils for productive land use.

Supporting our farmers
Andrew Bayly
April 21, 2023
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On Wednesday 19 April, I took Nicola Grigg MP and Sam Uffindell MP to Otaua where we held a morning tea with over 30 people from the area, all of them farmers.

Now the clean-up and recovery begin
Andrew Bayly
April 10, 2023
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News in mid-March that La Niña is over after three years will be a relief to those affected by the recent flooding and cyclone.

Bayly's Business Brief March 2023
Andrew Bayly
March 16, 2023
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Welcome to my March 2023 Business Brief – a roundup of news from my portfolios and Parliament.

Community spirit to the fore in unprecedented weather
Andrew Bayly
March 10, 2023
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The floods of Anniversary Weekend and the ferocious gales and driving rain associated with Cyclone Gabrielle really knocked Franklin for six.

Living with the last reindeer herders in the world
George Bayly
February 16, 2023
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George Bayly is the youngest son of Andrew Bayly, the MP for Port Waikato. They recently spent over two weeks living with one of the most reclusive groups of people in the world – the Dukha of Mongolia.

A Changed World
Andrew Bayly
December 09, 2022
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We are living in an uncertain world. After the ups and downs of Covid, many hoped we would return to a sense of normalcy, but life is very different now, not just on the home front but across the world, and we are having to deal with a high degree of uncertainty.