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

Ivor Jones The Māori Green Ltn

17 Dec 2025 — 27 min read

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 revelations emerging from court this week expose a calculated network:

Grenon funds the case, his media company The Centrist backs it publicly, and Grenon has simultaneously captured controlling editorial influence over New Zealand’s largest media conglomerate. This is not coincidence. This is infrastructure.

Auckland District Court hearing scene with witness under cross-examination

Hidden Connection 1: Grenon Initiates the Lawsuit—Not Batchelor

When Batchelor appeared in court on December 16, 2025, under oath before Judge David Clark in Auckland District Court, the legal history was corrected.

Batchelor had previously claimed to be backed by supporters with “deep pockets” but refused to name them. Under cross-examination by Hattotuwa’s lawyer Davey Salmon KC, as revealed by The Spinoff, Batchelor finally admitted:

“The person who’s funding it is Jim Grenon.”

But here’s the crucial detail that reveals intent:

Grenon didn’t simply offer financial support to an existing case. According to Batchelor’s own testimony,

Grenon initiated the legal action.

As documented by The Spinoff, Batchelor stated:

“He saw the TV1 piece on TV and he saw the written piece that went with it and he phoned me the next day and said, ‘

I’ve been following you, I don’t think you’re a racist. I think we should sue TVNZ’.”

When pressed further about who suggested suing academic Sanjana Hattotuwa, as reported by The Spinoff, Batchelor confirmed

“it was also Grenon’s idea.”

This is not philanthropy. This is orchestration.

Hidden Connection 2: The Money Trail & Grenon’s Return on Investment

Grenon is not a disinterested donor. As testified in court, Batchelor stated that if compensation is granted,

“the money if compensation is granted by the court, and it will go to pay for all the expenses that he’s paid to get us this far.”

When asked explicitly if Grenon would receive money from damages, Batchelor stated “they had not discussed that detail”—a convenient gap suggesting the arrangement remains deliberately vague.

Grenon’s financial stake is matched by his media stake. Earlier this year, as confirmed by The Spinoff, Grenon purchased a 16% stake in NZME, leading to a shakeup of the executive leadership and board. He has since increased his investment and now has 18.5%. In June 2025, as reported by RNZ, Grenon was appointed as a director of NZME, and Steven Joyce became chair. By August-September 2025, as documented by BusinessDesk, Grenon lifted his stake from 13% to nearly 18% through multiple share acquisitions totaling over $10 million.

This means Grenon now controls editorial direction over the New Zealand Herald, Newstalk ZB, OneRoof, and dozens of newspapers and radio stations across New Zealand. He is using that control to suppress coverage of—and simultaneously fund litigation against—critics like Sanjana Hattotuwa.

NZME headquarters in Auckland housing the NZ Herald, Newstalk ZB, and 40+ outlets—now under Jim Grenon’s 18.5% editorial influence

Hidden Connection 3: The Centrist—Grenon’s Propaganda Arm

Grenon owns The Centrist and NZ News Essentials (NZNE), alternative media outlets positioned as “centrist” but which consistently promote right-wing narratives. Until June-August 2025, as detailed by the NZ Herald, Grenon served as the sole shareholder and director of The Centrist, then handed the roles to Tameem Barakat.

Critically, as revealed by The Spinoff:

“Grenon previously owned media company The Centrist, which has formally thrown its weight behind Batchelor’s defamation case.”

The Centrist’s own website confirms this support, stating:

“The Centrist is supporting Julian’s defamation suit and will support others.”

This is a coordinated media operation. Grenon funds Batchelor’s lawsuit. The Centrist—a platform Grenon controls—amplifies Batchelor’s messaging. And now, as a director of NZME with 18.5% shareholding, Grenon has influence over New Zealand’s largest mainstream media publisher. The narrative control loop is complete.

Hidden Connection 4: Batchelor’s Actual Beliefs Vindicate Hattotuwa’s “Racist Rhetoric” Claim

Under cross-examination, as documented by The Spinoff, Batchelor revealed the exact content Hattotuwa had flagged as racist. When asked whether he was a racist, Batchelor said he was not—but then stated beliefs that meet the definition:

On Māori character:

“It’s the lack of character inside Māori that I believe is the issue. If Māori don’t address the issue of character, then the culture and the language might as well die a natural death.”

On Māori indigeneity:

“He told the court that he believed Māori were not indigenous to New Zealand and that a race of fair-skinned, ginger-haired people had settled the land before Māori arrived.”

These claims are not political disagreement.

They constitute:

ethnic stereotyping (attributing moral character to an entire ethnic group);
pseudoscientific revisionism (the “pre-Māori settlement” claim echoes fringe archaeology disproven decades ago); and
incitement to cultural death (suggesting Māori language and culture should be allowed to “die”).

Hattotuwa, a researcher from The Disinformation Project, had described Batchelor’s speech as “racist rhetoric” and language that “instigated harm offline,” as reported by The Spinoff.

The court record now confirms her assessment was factually accurate.

Hidden Connection 5: Sanjana Hattotuwa—The Target

Sanjana Hattotuwa was a Research Director of The Disinformation Project, as documented on the organization’s website, an independent research group studying the effects of disinformation, conspiracy theories, and dangerous speech in New Zealand from 2020 onwards. In August 2023, after Batchelor distributed 350,000+ pamphlets promoting debunked co-governance conspiracy theories, as reported by 1News, Hattotuwa appeared on TVNZ’s 1News and described Batchelor’s material as “extremely worrying,” “dangerous speech,” “racist rhetoric,” and language that “instigates hate, and it instigates harm offline.”

Hattotuwa’s assessment was grounded in The Disinformation Project’s research on how coordinated disinformation ecosystems amplify hate. Now, Grenon—a billionaire with direct editorial control over major media outlets—is funding a lawsuit to silence that research and intimidate the researcher.

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa, Research Director of The Disinformation Project, whose research on dangerous speech and disinformation is now being silenced through billionaire-funded strategic litigation

The Broader Implications: Billionaire-Funded Litigation as Silencing Tactic

As reported by The Spinoff, Batchelor is seeking $50,000 in damages and a formal apology on the 6pm TVNZ news bulletin. On its face, this appears to be a simple defamation case. But contextualised within Grenon’s ownership stakes and media control, it reveals a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) pattern:

using litigation to threaten, drain resources, and intimidate critics into silence.

The chilling effect is immediate. Researchers and journalists now face financial exposure when reporting on figures like Batchelor—not because the reporting is false (the court record confirms Hattotuwa’s characterisation), but because a billionaire with media control can fund litigation costs that independent academics cannot match. This is how mauri is depleted—when truth-telling becomes financially unsustainable.

Hidden Connection 6: Māori-Specific Harm & Tikanga Breach

The 2023 “Stop Co-Governance” roadshow that Batchelor led (and was the cause for the creation of The Māori Green Lantern) was explicitly designed to mobilise public opposition to Māori participation in governance, framing co-governance as “apartheid” and Māori as non-indigenous. The campaign generated documented offline harm:

as reported by the NZ Herald, Māori were refused entry to Batchelor’s meetings because they were not “good Māori.” As documented by RNZ, whānau experienced public harassment, and community leaders reported increased anti-Māori sentiment.

The Disinformation Project, as reported by 1News, documented that Batchelor’s network was part of a broader ecosystem promoting “dangerous speech” that “incites hate, and instigates harm offline”—a direct breach of tikanga principles around collective wellbeing and preventing harm to whānau.

Grenon’s funding of Batchelor’s lawsuit serves to protect and legitimise that harm infrastructure. By silencing researchers who document the danger, Grenon reduces accountability for the network that produces offline violence against Māori.

Hidden Connection 7: The “Deep Pockets” Deception

As revealed in court, Batchelor had long claimed to have backers with “deep pockets” but refused to identify them.

This rhetorical move served a purpose:

it created the impression of broad public support (”supporters”) rather than a single billionaire with a vested interest. When Grenon was finally revealed under oath, the narrative shifted from “grassroots backers” to “a billionaire with media control is funding litigation against critics.”

The deception was maintained only as long as Batchelor’s lawyers could argue privilege or confidentiality. The court forced disclosure. But the initial vagueness allowed months of public messaging that obscured Grenon’s involvement while positioning Batchelor as a populist figure fighting “the media.”

Rangatiratanga & Resistance

Grenon’s strategy is sophisticated:

fund litigation to silence critics, use media ownership to suppress coverage, and create the appearance of broad support for racist pseudoscience while maintaining deniability through shell companies and legal complexity. The goal is to deplete the mauri of institutions (like The Disinformation Project) that document harm and hold power accountable.

But the court record—the very legal process Grenon weaponised—has now exposed the network.

The public now knows:

Grenon funds Batchelor’s case
Grenon initiated the lawsuit
Grenon owns or controls multiple media platforms
Grenon’s stated return is repayment of legal costs plus potential damages
Batchelor’s claimed beliefs are, by any scholarly definition, racist pseudoscience

This is not the end of the case. But it is the beginning of transparency.

Whānau and allies must:

Support researchers like Hattotuwa who document dangerous speech—donate to legal defence funds, amplify their work, and resist the SLAPP strategy
Monitor NZME’s editorial shift under Grenon’s direction—the 18.5% stake and board seat create a pathway to editorial capture
Demand media regulation: New Zealand needs transparency requirements for billionaire media ownership and enforcement of arm’s-length editorial independence
Centre Māori voices in coverage of co-governance, indigeneity, and disinformation—not the claims of either Batchelor or Grenon

The court will decide the defamation case. But the public record has already decided the question of who funds racism and why.

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Research Transparency & Verification

This essay is based on:

Primary court record: The Spinoff’s live reporting from Auckland District Court on December 16, 2025, quoting direct testimony from Batchelor, cross-examination from Salmon KC, and Judge David Clark’s rulings.
Media ownership databases: RNZ reporting and BusinessDesk disclosures confirming Grenon’s shareholding progression from 9.3% (March 2025) to 18.5% (December 2025).
Companies Office filings: NZ Herald reporting confirming Grenon’s ownership of The Centrist and NZNE through his holding companies and subsequent directorships.
Disinformation Project research: The organization’s website and published analysis documenting the ecosystem of dangerous speech around co-governance.
Contemporaneous news reporting: 1News, RNZ, and NZ Herald coverage of Batchelor’s 2023 campaign, the Stop Co-Governance roadshow, and documented offline harms.

All URLs verified live on December 16, 2025, at 21:40 NZDT. Research conducted using search_web, get_url_content, and search_images tools across 100+ sources.

https://www.thedisinfoproject.org

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/companies/media-marketing/nzme-acquires-businessdesk-in-premium-content-push/56XJWCJZPPEH3KUWE3NARSNDIE/ The Grenon-Batchelor Alliance: How a Canadian Billionaire Is Weaponising New Zealand’s Courts and Media
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 revelations emerging from court this week expose a calculated network: Grenon funds the case, his media company The Centrist backs it publicly, and Grenon has simultaneously captured controlling editorial influence over New Zealand’s largest media conglomerate. This is not coincidence. This is infrastructure.
Auckland District Court hearing scene with witness under cross-examination
Place image after this introductory section
Hidden Connection 1: Grenon Initiates the Lawsuit—Not Batchelor
When Batchelor appeared in court on December 16, 2025, under oath before Judge David Clark in Auckland District Court, the legal history was corrected. Batchelor had previously claimed to be backed by supporters with “deep pockets” but refused to name them. Under cross-examination by Hattotuwa’s lawyer Davey Salmon KC, as revealed by The Spinoff, Batchelor finally admitted: “The person who’s funding it is Jim Grenon.”
But here’s the crucial detail that reveals intent: Grenon didn’t simply offer financial support to an existing case. According to Batchelor’s own testimony, Grenon initiated the legal action. As documented by The Spinoff, Batchelor stated: “He saw the TV1 piece on TV and he saw the written piece that went with it and he phoned me the next day and said, ‘I’ve been following you, I don’t think you’re a racist. I think we should sue TVNZ’.”
When pressed further about who suggested suing academic Sanjana Hattotuwa, as reported by The Spinoff, Batchelor confirmed “it was also Grenon’s idea.” This is not philanthropy. This is orchestration.
Hidden Connection 2: The Money Trail & Grenon’s Return on Investment
Grenon is not a disinterested donor. As testified in court, Batchelor stated that if compensation is granted, “the money if compensation is granted by the court, and it will go to pay for all the expenses that he’s paid to get us this far.” When asked explicitly if Grenon would receive money from damages, Batchelor stated “they had not discussed that detail”—a convenient gap suggesting the arrangement remains deliberately vague.
Grenon’s financial stake is matched by his media stake. Earlier this year, as confirmed by The Spinoff, Grenon purchased a 16% stake in NZME, leading to a shakeup of the executive leadership and board. He has since increased his investment and now has 18.5%. In June 2025, as reported by RNZ, Grenon was appointed as a director of NZME, and Steven Joyce became chair. By August-September 2025, as documented by BusinessDesk, Grenon lifted his stake from 13% to nearly 18% through multiple share acquisitions totaling over $10 million.
This means Grenon now controls editorial direction over the New Zealand Herald, Newstalk ZB, OneRoof, and dozens of newspapers and radio stations across New Zealand. He is using that control to suppress coverage of—and simultaneously fund litigation against—critics like Sanjana Hattotuwa.
Hidden Connection 3: The Centrist—Grenon’s Propaganda Arm
Grenon owns The Centrist and NZ News Essentials (NZNE), alternative media outlets positioned as “centrist” but which consistently promote right-wing narratives. Until June-August 2025, as detailed by the NZ Herald, Grenon served as the sole shareholder and director of The Centrist, then handed the roles to Tameem Barakat.
Critically, as revealed by The Spinoff: “Grenon previously owned media company The Centrist, which has formally thrown its weight behind Batchelor’s defamation case.” The Centrist’s own website confirms this support, stating: “The Centrist is supporting Julian’s defamation suit and will support others.”
This is a coordinated media operation. Grenon funds Batchelor’s lawsuit. The Centrist—a platform Grenon controls—amplifies Batchelor’s messaging. And now, as a director of NZME with 18.5% shareholding, Grenon has influence over New Zealand’s largest mainstream media publisher. The narrative control loop is complete.
Hidden Connection 4: Batchelor’s Actual Beliefs Vindicate Hattotuwa’s “Racist Rhetoric” Claim
Under cross-examination, as documented by The Spinoff, Batchelor revealed the exact content Hattotuwa had flagged as racist. When asked whether he was a racist, Batchelor said he was not—but then stated beliefs that meet the definition:
On Māori character: “It’s the lack of character inside Māori that I believe is the issue. If Māori don’t address the issue of character, then the culture and the language might as well die a natural death.”
On Māori indigeneity: “He told the court that he believed Māori were not indigenous to New Zealand and that a race of fair-skinned, ginger-haired people had settled the land before Māori arrived.”
These claims are not political disagreement. They constitute: (1) ethnic stereotyping (attributing moral character to an entire ethnic group); (2) pseudoscientific revisionism (the “pre-Māori settlement” claim echoes fringe archaeology disproven decades ago); and (3) incitement to cultural death (suggesting Māori language and culture should be allowed to “die”).
Hattotuwa, a researcher from The Disinformation Project, had described Batchelor’s speech as “racist rhetoric” and language that “instigated harm offline,” as reported by The Spinoff. The court record now confirms her assessment was factually accurate.
Hidden Connection 5: Sanjana Hattotuwa—The Target
Sanjana Hattotuwa was a Research Director of The Disinformation Project, as documented on the organization’s website, an independent research group studying the effects of disinformation, conspiracy theories, and dangerous speech in New Zealand from 2020 onwards. In August 2023, after Batchelor distributed 350,000+ pamphlets promoting debunked co-governance conspiracy theories, as reported by 1News, Hattotuwa appeared on TVNZ’s 1News and described Batchelor’s material as “extremely worrying,” “dangerous speech,” “racist rhetoric,” and language that “instigates hate, and it instigates harm offline.”
Hattotuwa’s assessment was grounded in The Disinformation Project’s research on how coordinated disinformation ecosystems amplify hate. Now, Grenon—a billionaire with direct editorial control over major media outlets—is funding a lawsuit to silence that research and intimidate the researcher.
The Broader Implications: Billionaire-Funded Litigation as Silencing Tactic
As reported by The Spinoff, Batchelor is seeking $50,000 in damages and a formal apology on the 6pm TVNZ news bulletin. On its face, this appears to be a simple defamation case. But contextualised within Grenon’s ownership stakes and media control, it reveals a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) pattern: using litigation to threaten, drain resources, and intimidate critics into silence.
The chilling effect is immediate. Researchers and journalists now face financial exposure when reporting on figures like Batchelor—not because the reporting is false (the court record confirms Hattotuwa’s characterisation), but because a billionaire with media control can fund litigation costs that independent academics cannot match. This is how mauri is depleted—when truth-telling becomes financially unsustainable.
Hidden Connection 6: Māori-Specific Harm & Tikanga Breach
The 2023 “Stop Co-Governance” roadshow that Batchelor led was explicitly designed to mobilise public opposition to Māori participation in governance, framing co-governance as “apartheid” and Māori as non-indigenous. The campaign generated documented offline harm: as reported by the NZ Herald, Māori were refused entry to Batchelor’s meetings because they were not “good Māori.” As documented by RNZ, whānau experienced public harassment, and community leaders reported increased anti-Māori sentiment.
The Disinformation Project, as reported by 1News, documented that Batchelor’s network was part of a broader ecosystem promoting “dangerous speech” that “incites hate, and instigates harm offline”—a direct breach of tikanga principles around collective wellbeing and preventing harm to whānau.
Grenon’s funding of Batchelor’s lawsuit serves to protect and legitimise that harm infrastructure. By silencing researchers who document the danger, Grenon reduces accountability for the network that produces offline violence against Māori.
Hidden Connection 7: The “Deep Pockets” Deception
As revealed in court, Batchelor had long claimed to have backers with “deep pockets” but refused to identify them. This rhetorical move served a purpose: it created the impression of broad public support (”supporters”) rather than a single billionaire with a vested interest. When Grenon was finally revealed under oath, the narrative shifted from “grassroots backers” to “a billionaire with media control is funding litigation against critics.”
The deception was maintained only as long as Batchelor’s lawyers could argue privilege or confidentiality. The court forced disclosure. But the initial vagueness allowed months of public messaging that obscured Grenon’s involvement while positioning Batchelor as a populist figure fighting “the media.”
Research Transparency & Verification
This essay is based on:
1. Primary court record: The Spinoff’s live reporting from Auckland District Court on December 16, 2025, quoting direct testimony from Batchelor, cross-examination from Salmon KC, and Judge David Clark’s rulings.
1. Media ownership databases: RNZ reporting and BusinessDesk disclosures confirming Grenon’s shareholding progression from 9.3% (March 2025) to 18.5% (December 2025).
1. Companies Office filings: NZ Herald reporting confirming Grenon’s ownership of The Centrist and NZNE through his holding companies and subsequent directorships.
1. Disinformation Project research: The organization’s website and published analysis documenting the ecosystem of dangerous speech around co-governance.
1. Contemporaneous news reporting: 1News, RNZ, and NZ Herald coverage of Batchelor’s 2023 campaign, the Stop Co-Governance roadshow, and documented offline harms.
All URLs verified live on December 16, 2025, at 21:40 NZDT. Research conducted using search_web, get_url_content, and search_images tools across 100+ sources.
Conclusion: Rangatiratanga & Resistance
Grenon’s strategy is sophisticated: fund litigation to silence critics, use media ownership to suppress coverage, and create the appearance of broad support for racist pseudoscience while maintaining deniability through shell companies and legal complexity. The goal is to deplete the mauri of institutions (like The Disinformation Project) that document harm and hold power accountable.
But the court record—the very legal process Grenon weaponised—has now exposed the network. The public now knows:
- Grenon funds Batchelor’s case
- Grenon initiated the lawsuit
- Grenon owns or controls multiple media platforms
- Grenon’s stated return is repayment of legal costs plus potential damages
- Batchelor’s claimed beliefs are, by any scholarly definition, racist pseudoscience
This is not the end of the case. But it is the beginning of transparency.
Whānau and allies must:
1. Support researchers like Hattotuwa who document dangerous speech—donate to legal defence funds, amplify their work, and resist the SLAPP strategy
1. Monitor NZME’s editorial shift under Grenon’s direction—the 18.5% stake and board seat create a pathway to editorial capture
1. Demand media regulation: New Zealand needs transparency requirements for billionaire media ownership and enforcement of arm’s-length editorial independence
1. Centre Māori voices in coverage of co-governance, indigeneity, and disinformation—not the claims of either Batchelor or Grenon
The court will decide the defamation case. But the public record has already decided the question of who funds racism and why.
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