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“The Grenon-Batchelor Alliance: How a Canadian Billionaire Is Weaponising New Zealand’s Courts and Media” - 17 December 2025

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“The Grenon-Batchelor Alliance: How a Canadian Billionaire Is Weaponising New Zealand’s Courts and Media” - 17 December 2025

Cui Bono? Jim Grenon, Canadian billionaire and now director of NZME (the owner of the NZ Herald, Newstalk ZB, and 40+ news outlets), is directly funding a defamation lawsuit brought by Julian Batchelor—a promoter of racist pseudoscience about Māori origins and what he describes as Māori “character flaws.” The

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Ltn
“Silencing the Kaitiaki: How Simeon Brown’s “Clarification” Dismantles Māori Health Partnership” - 16 December 2025

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“Silencing the Kaitiaki: How Simeon Brown’s “Clarification” Dismantles Māori Health Partnership” - 16 December 2025

The taiaha hums with familiar fury. We have seen this pattern before—colonial logic wrapped in bureaucratic language, the systematic dismantling of Māori authority disguised as “streamlining.” But Minister of Health Simeon Brown’s Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill represents something more insidious than mere policy reversal. It is

By Ivor Jones The Māori Green Ltn