Rod Drury

Well, and, you know, we're seeing issues cropping up in the media.

There's the Rod Drury sort of situation where, according to the media reports, there'd been a settlement with an employee around a sexual harassment claim and this ex-employee went public.

And then apparently, according to the media, Wynham made a complaint to the police.

But the question is whether that actually met, you know, a criminal threshold.

So it's asking investors to register their interest as it explores a possible NZX listing.

As I said, it's one of New Zealand's biggest solar power companies, and it's backed by some pretty heavy-duty names, Rod Drury, Sam Morgan, Stephen Tyndall.

It's an interesting business model.

It's what they like to call vertically integrated, which means that they generate the power and they also retail it to customers, sort of like a mini gen tailor, if you like.

But-

"What if we did not have journalists to ferret out stories such as those highlighted in the report? Would allegations against New Zealander of the Year Sir Rod Drury have been investigated? Would financial discrepancies in NZTA roading contracts have been investigated? Would Auckland Airport taxi drivers have been investigated over double charging?"

Not likely, Gavin Ellis reckoned.

But not everyone sees the same value in journalism these days in the same way, and that shows up in annual surveys of New Zealanders' trust in news, which has shown it slumping in recent years with a bit of a bounce back since 2024.