Midday Edition: 09 September 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Tuesday, the ninth of September. The Police
Commissioner says officers probably had already visited the area where
Tom Phillips children were found yesterday the fugitive died and
a police shootout on a rural Whitcuttle Road following a
burglary in peel Piol. Two children were found yesterday afternoon

(00:25):
at a campsite deep in the bush, not far from
where Phillips died. Richard Chambers says the child who was
found with Phillips helped police find the others.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
In terms of pinpointing where the remaining children may be,
but also what it is that we may encounter, and
we were advised that there were more firearms present at
the camp sites.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
He says. They've searched the terrain extensively over the years,
but they know Phillips was moving around a lot.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I suspect that it probably is an area that we
have canvas previously, but you know, I could say that
about the whole region.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Police Minister Mark Mitchell says the officer seriously in jurd
in the shootout with Tom Phillips. As making great strides
following surgery. Just incredibly lucky that he survived and I
want to acknowledge him and the other offices that were
on the scene because in my view they showed extreme
courage and bravery in terms of making the intervention. The
heralds Jamie Lithe says some parts of the modern Copper

(01:17):
community aren't surprised by the way Tom phillips life on
the run has ended.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
We knew Tom Phillips was armed, so did the police,
and we knew that he was unpredictable. He had those
previous allegations for the bank robbery, the supermarket robbery.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Forestry worker Leon Wood told newstalks 'b he believes he
saw Phillips three times while he was on the run,
and claimed several people, including farmers, had been hiring Phillips
for fencing work and a.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Batch on the farm with his kids and getting food,
you know, everything free from the farmer.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Two other news, the Health Minister says it's unacceptable that
a third of patients at Wellington's emergency department are being
treated in corridors. Data has been laid out in a
business case for the hospital's refurbishment presented by Health New
Zealand officials. Minister of Health Simeon Brown says they're investing
in infrastructure and there will be a major upgrade of

(02:13):
the Emergency Department. Dozens of jobs are being cut at
Wellington City Council just weeks before the local elections. The
council says about thirty roles will be impacted by the proposal.
New comparisons show teacher salaries have plummeted relative to the
minimum wage. PPTA members are voting on a new government payoffer,

(02:34):
while primary teachers have decided to reject their latest offer.
Caterbury University maths lecturer Leyton Watson's done a comparison of
teachers pay with the minimum wage. He says a beginning
teacher was paid thirty three thousand dollars in nineteen ninety
nine and now they get sixty four thousand.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Which seems like a great increase. But if a beginning
teachers paid the same amount now as they were in
nineteen nety nine relative to the minimum wage, that the
earning of hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
The finance ministers heading out at taparty Maori, questioning whether
Kiwis would accept them working with labour Taparty. Maori took
out the Tomackemakodo by election over the weekend, leading Nikola
Willis to ponder whether the party could take all seven
Maori seats next election.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
It means potentially a clean suitep across the Marti seats
from to Party Marty, and it means a Labor government
proposition only exists, being propped up by a party that
increasingly sounds quite separatist.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
To sports relief for Sharks half back Nico Hines after
a dangerous contact charge was downgraded from a one match
band to a fine ahead of their NRL League elimination
playoff against the Roosters on Saturday. At All Whites captain
Chris Wood could be returning to a new look Nottingham
Forest after international football duty, with reports that manager Nuno

(03:48):
Espirito Santo could be dismissed. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your
latest news fix. We'll be back with the next update
at five pm from the news Talk ZB newsroom