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Andrew Bayly
FRGS MP
Bayly in 2016
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Port Waikato
Hunua (2014–2020)
Assumed office
20 September 2014
Preceded byPaul Hutchison
Majority4,313
Personal details
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Wanganui, New Zealand
Alma materMassey University
ProfessionMerchant banker

Andrew Henry Bayly FRGS MP (born 1962)[1] is a New Zealand politician who was elected to the New Zealand Parliament at the 2014 general election as the MP for Hunua and a representative of the New Zealand National Party.

Personal life

Bayly was born in Wanganui and has a twin brother. Bayly attended Wanganui Collegiate School and graduated with a degree in Accounting & Finance from Massey University.[2] He is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the NZ Institute of Management, the NZ Chartered Institute of Corporate Management and the UK Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London.[2] Bayly was an officer in the New Zealand Army Territorials and also served in the British Parachute Regiment.[3][4]

In the 1970s, while a student, Bayly accidentally shot his brother in the leg while climbing a fence with a gun. While his brother was left with heavy scarring, his leg was saved.[3]

Bayly had a long career in adventure racing, including competing in three Coast-to-Coast events, marathons and Ironman events. More recently he took up mountaineering, having scaled many mountain peaks, including Aoraki Mt Cook and Mt. Aspiring, and four mountains in Antarctica, including Vinson Massif, the highest mountain in Antarctica. In the summer of 2012/13 he dragged a sled 112 km to the South Pole.[2] In 2016 he and his eldest son James each dragged sledges 120 km to the North Pole, raising $10,000 for the Kokako Bird Recovery Programme in the Hunua Ranges.[5]

In January 2019, Bayly and his second son Daniel spent a month trekking 500 km through Jordan on camels, retracing the routes of Lawrence of Arabia when he worked with Arab forces during the First World War, as described in his book, Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Living and eating as a Bedouin, Bayly was able to confirm a number of the claims made by Lawrence. However, Bayly disputed Lawrence’s claim that he could ride his camels up to 80 to 120 miles a day. Taking into account the time involved in collecting firewood and cooking and time for prayers, Bayly’s experience was that a fully laden camel could ably cover up to 50 to 80 km in a day, but only for a few days at most. Bayly’s article about their experience was published in the T.E. Lawrence Society journal, August 2019 edition.[6]

Business career

Bayly worked as a merchant banker, founding the Cranleigh firm with his brother Paul,[7] where he offered corporate advisory and capital markets advice to a range of government entities, local authorities and corporate clients. Cranleigh has offices in New Zealand, Australia and Singapore.

He was a director of numerous companies, the chair of the board of New Zealand Financial Planning and a trustee of the Enterprise Franklin Development Trust, the economic development arm of the Franklin Council.[2]

Bayly is a former director of Envirofert, an organic compost product company that received the prestigious “Green Ribbon Award” in 2010 for making an outstanding contribution to protecting the environment.[8] Envirofert receives around 60,000 tonnes of green waste and building products every year, and turns most of it into beneficial products, including compost and gypsum. It also has a partnership with Fonterra to process and recycle its waste products.[9]

Political career

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate List Party
2014–2017 51st Hunua 55 National
2017–2020 52nd Hunua 39 National
2020–present 53rd Port Waikato 15 National

Fifth National Government, 2014–2017

During the 2014 general election Bayly was elected to Parliament as the National MP for the Hunua electorate with a majority of 17,376 votes.[2][10] He replaced Paul Hutchison, who retired. He had the fourth highest majority of all electorate seats in New Zealand. During the 51st New Zealand Parliament, Bayly served as a member of the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee, Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee, and Deputy Chair of the Regulations Review Select Committee.[2]

In September 2016, Bayly introduced a private member's bill to Parliament that would give landlords more power to test and remedy their rental properties of dangerous levels of methamphetamine contamination. The bill, which was backed by the National Party caucus, would place an obligation on the landlord to provide rental accommodation free of methamphetamine contamination while giving them more power to confront the problem in their properties.[11]

During the 2017 general election, Bayly retained Hunua by a margin of 19,443 votes.[12]

Sixth Labour Government, 2017–present

In September 2019, Bayly was ejected from Parliament for attempting to disrupt Parliamentary proceedings by asking several questions about the Ihumātao dispute's implications for treaty settlements in New Zealand.[13]

For the 2020 general election, Bayly's electorate of Hunua was renamed Port Waikato, with a new region made partly of the old Hunua electorate and partly of the old Waikato electorate. Bayly contested Port Waikato and was re-elected by a margin of 4,313 votes.[14]

After a shadow cabinet reshuffle on 11 November 2020, Bayly was promoted to number 3 in the National Party rankings and was made Shadow Treasurer and the National Party spokesperson for infrastructure and statistics.[15] This was a promotion of 14 places in National's shadow cabinet, and Bayly was described by reporters as "relatively unknown" and "little-known".[16][15]

Bayly has been a member of Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Select Committee since 2014 and is co-chairperson of the New Zealand - Middle East and Africa Parliamentary Friendship Group. Bayly also established the cross-party Parliament Antarctic Group in 2020 and is currently its co-chair.

On 10 November 2021, the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income (Fair Residency) Amendment Bill was passed. This was the second of Bayly’s members’ bills to be passed, which is a rarity for an MP in opposition.[17]

Following the appointment of Christopher Luxon as party leader on 30 November 2021 and a subsequent reshuffle of the shadow cabinet in early December, Bayly was made the National Party’s spokesperson for Revenue, Small Business, Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Building and Construction, and Manufacturing.[18]

References

  1. ^ James, Colin (2017). National at 80: The Story of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: David Bateman Ltd. ISBN 9781869539818.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "About". Andrew Bayly | MP for Hunua. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  3. ^ a b "MP reluctant to tell of shooting brother". stuff.co.nz. 3 November 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  4. ^ "National MP embarks on mission to complete Pole double". The New Zealand Herald. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  5. ^ "MP reflects on North Pole trek". Stuff. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Journal Volume XXV to Volume 29 | T. E. Lawrence Society". Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  7. ^ Playing Favourites with Paul and Andrew Bayly radionz.co.nz, 28 September 2013
  8. ^ "Green Ribbon Award winners announced". The Beehive. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  9. ^ "Fonterra – Waste". www.fonterra.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  10. ^ "Official Count Results -- Hunua". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  11. ^ "Bill will address P-plagued homes". Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  12. ^ "Hunua - Official Result". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  13. ^ Small, Zane (19 September 2019). "National MP Andrew Bayly booted from Parliament over Ihumātao questioning". Newshub. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  14. ^ "Port Waikato - Official Result". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  15. ^ a b "Who is Andrew Bayly? The mountaineer who scaled National's caucus and claimed half of the finance role". NZ Herald. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  16. ^ "Collins defends Andrew Bayly promotion to National's number three". RNZ. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  17. ^ "Tougher residency rules for superannuation passed". NZ Herald. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  18. ^ "National Party leader Christopher Luxon reveals new caucus lineup". RNZ. 6 December 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2022.

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New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Hunua
2014–2020 		Constituency abolished
Vacant
Constituency recreated after abolition in 2008
Title last held by
Paul Hutchison 		Member of Parliament for Port Waikato
2020–present 		Incumbent
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