Midday Edition: 27 May 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 27 May 2025, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.

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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 twenty seventh of May. A view,
every crime deserves a police response, Police Minister Mark Mitchell
is reassuring retailers police will respond when called, even for
lower value shoplifting. Staff have been directed to not investigate
shoplifting below five hundred dollars and online fraud worth less

(00:26):
than one thousand dollars. Mitchell told Kerry Woodham Police are
expected to clarify the internal memo. I don't interfere with
their prioritization. I don't interfere with how they prioritize deployment
to jobs. But the expectation is that every crime that
is committed, if they have resources available, there will be
a response. The government's blaming Labour's decision making for overcrowding
in emergency departments. EDS are already dealing with record volumes

(00:50):
with concerns about the coming winter months. In recent weeks,
the daily tally at christ Church Hospital has surpassed four
hundred and ten and it neared three hundred and thirty
at all Aakland's Middlemore. Health Minister Simeon Brown told Herald
Now when the last government centralized the health system, it
took away local control and that's led to a number
of the challenges that we're facing, and so we're going

(01:11):
through a process now to actually put back in place
local decision making, local budgets. In the UK, forty seven
people have been injured after a car plowed into a
parade celebrating Liverpool FC's Premier League win. Twenty seven people
were taken to hospital too seriously hurt. A fifty three
year old white British man has been arrested. Merseyside Police

(01:32):
Deputy Chief Constable Jenny Simms has laid out what the
police knows.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
We believe this to be an isolated incident and we
are not currently looking for anyone else in relation to it.
The incident is not being treated as terrorism.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Back in New Zealand, police have arrested a twenty year
old driver after a man was seriously injured during a
large boy racer gathering in Hamilton overnight Saturday. The man
was hit by a car burnouts on Hotritiu Bridge Road.
Police picked up the twenty year old after reviewing CCTV footage,
charging him with causing injury, failing to stop and sustained

(02:12):
loss of traction. No love lost between Chris Hipkins and
Winston Peters. Winston Peters is ruling out working with Labor
if Hipkins is still leader at the next election. The
New Zealand First leaders told our newsroom the Labour Party's
running a borrow and hope fiscal strategy and abandoning their
fundamental roots as a party. Hipkins has responded on Herald Now, I.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Think, frankly New Zealanders have had enough of being held
to ransom by Winston Peters and David Seymour. I think
they want to get back to the idea that the
government's there to serve people rather than serve themselves.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Key we greyhound racers aren't going without a fight. Greyhound
Racing New Zealand is applying for a judicial review of
racing Minister Winston Peters, giving the industry twenty months to
wind down from last November. Trainer Craig Roberts says he
believes people have been fed misinformation.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Probably ninety five percent of the injuries that are recorded
for greyhounds are not serious injury, just injuries that prevent
them from racing for a short period of time.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
To sport Costa Barbarusis is departing the Wellington Phoenix. The
thirty five year old has turned down a contract extension.
Bulldogs are five eight. The Matt Burton's been called into
the New South Wales camp as injury cover for club
teammates Stephen Crichton ahead of tomorrow's State of Origin league
opener against Queensland in Brisbane. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your

(03:34):
latest news fix. We'll be back with the next update
at five pm from the Newstalk ZB newsroom.