On today's First Up pod - Smoke from the Canadian wildfires sends New York's air quality into the hazardous range; Act Party deputy Brooke Van Velden lights up your Friday; there's been a mass rescue of children from an Sudanese orphanage, Nabil Ahmed reports from Ghana; we wish a happy birthday to Disney's most interesting characters plus we visit an East Auckland Pie Shop going gangbusters on TikTok. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - Prince Harry finishes his testimony at the High Court in London; Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni is with us as pressure mounts on Michael Wood to resign; as schools around the country ditch NCEA level one exams, an Auckland principal tells us why he's bringing it back and the US PGA Tour teams up with the Saudi backed LIV golf circuit - we can't find anyone happy about it. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - A convicted child killer in Australia has been pardoned after 20 years in jail; Prince Harry gives 5 hours of testimony; Tonga's King adresses the country's illicit drug problem; Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson on your rental horror stories and why her party wants to hear from you and the Government announces a crackdown on youth vaping but could they have gone further? First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - Prince Harry is due in court - we're in London for the latest; a zoo in Japan so good the wild animals are breaking in! National's Nicola Willis on the King's honours list, police numbers and Auckland airport shares and a smart young woman whose last minute effort won her the opportunity of a lifetime. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - Perlina Lau hosting today: Auckland's public on the proposal to sell the city's airport shares - ACT leader David Seymour talks about what his constituents think, ACT's new candidate for Pakuranga and mayor Wayne Brown's media antics and the National scrabble champs are on this weekend - 11-time Kiwi champ Howard Warner tells us what word - helped him clean up - with a whopping 257 points. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - Perlina Lau hosting today: police minister Ginny Anderson talks crime, police numbers and fog cannons; we're at Government House as the pilots who waded through falling ash to reach casualties in the aftermath of the Whakaari White Island explosion receive NZ Bravery Awards for risking their own lives and a young man who wants to take on the system that failed him and his whanau. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - we get news from the Pacific, Australia and the Middle East; at home we ask Greens co-leader James Shaw about the housing crisis, bilingual signs and a drop in the polls; Air NZ is named the world's best airline and desperate to return home - a 69 year old man with intellectual disabilities is forced out of the only town he has ever known. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - President Erdogan wins Turkey's election and secures his third decade in parliament; National's deputy Nicola Willis on her party's housing flip flop and bi-lingual street signs and will it smell like armpits, vomit on the pavement and burning rubber on the road? A new fragrance is promising to mimic one of the country's most iconic streets in the name of charity. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - Votes in Turkey's presidential run-off election are being counted; Newshub's Mitch McCann is at the Indianapolis 500; there was a massive weekend multi-vaccination drive in Auckland - so how many turned up? The director of a film that exposes the oppression of Uyghur and Kazakh minorities in China and a young woman whose life changed forever when a balcony fell on her, but it didn't stop her from dreaming big. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - car maker Ford reverses it's decision to scrap AM radios in their American-built cars; we talk bank for your buck as an iconic Akaroa landmark goes up for sale; Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni on another interest rate hike and selling the budget to the Pacific community and the island dance group from Rotuma - performing to keep their language alive. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - car maker Ford reverses it's decision to scrap AM radios in their American-built cars; we talk bank for your buck as an iconic Akaroa landmark goes up for sale; Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni on another interest rate hike and selling the budget to the Pacific community and the island dance group from Rotuma - performing to keep their language alive. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - we talk to Zoo Miami about a disturbing video of a Kiwi being shown off under bright lights and handled by guests; how would New Zealand deal with a serious maritime emergency without an ocean going tug? And the joy of finding something - so precious - that you thought was lost forever. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - UK home secretary Suella Braverman denies 'untoward' meddling over speeding tickets; we're on the line to Japan where the G7 got an unexpected guest from Kyiv; is ordering a mild butter chicken is the biggest of the food crimes and heartfelt advice about teenagers and fast cars - from a mother who knows First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives at the G7 Summit; Greytown's Little Theatre is going to the races in "Ladies Day"; we ask a lawyer how good the Government deal with Glenbrook Steel Mill to halve climate emissions is and we trace the source of Persian spices wafting through an upmarket Auckland suburb. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - the latest on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's paparazzi incident from New York; we're showcasing more talent from the International Comedy Festival and Lads without Labels - the university programme teaching young men vital lifeskills - like how to cook a flat meal. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - the Duke and Duchess of Sussex say they've been involved in an incident in New York; we have an Auckland debt collector who's campaigning for a caring approach to this hardball profession; the Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni joins us and questions around the Loafers Lodge tragedy will be high on the list and outside the burnt out Lodge in Newtown - the full impact is sinking in for survivors. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - We head around the world with Pam Corkery in Australia, the Pacific with Kalafi Moala and to the Middle East with Alex Baird; we ask Pharmac why there is a dire shortage of menopause medicine; Green Leader James Shaw demands answers about the Newtown Hostel Tragedy and we ask him about tomorrow's budget and survivors tell First Up what it felt like - inside their burning home. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - Eurovision came to its flamboyant finale in Liverpool yesterday - a Kiwi music fan tells us her favourite; it's soup weather and Glenn Forsyth shares a recipe; losing your mast in a storm off Brazil - all in a day's work for Kiwi Georgia Schofield and Cyclone hit State Highway 2 might be open again, but locals say there's a long way to go. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - Prince Harry receives an apology in his phone hacking court case; a US jury has found former president Donald Trump sexually abused a woman and then defamed her by branding her a liar and George Santos appears in court; a seaweed that ecologists are calling the 'foot and mouth' of the sea; we examine the condition of face-blindness - where sufferers can't remember what people look like and more rain....and more pain...for West Auckland. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - Moscow holds a scaled back Victory Day Parade as the war in Ukraine continues; Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been arrested; yesterday's heavy rains stranded travellers on the wrong side of Northland's Brynderwyns while it was groundhog day for West Auckland as residents. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - massive piles of bunting line the post-Coronation streets of London; the new Covid 19 sub variant - made in New Zealand - that's filling up hospitals; school's out today for most Year 12s in the South Island thanks to a rolling teachers strike - we ask how her party would improve teachers' pay and working conditions and tiny and peculiar - that's the description of a cinema at the top of the South Island that's getting some serious global attention. First Up - Voice of ...
On today's First Up pod - winter is here and we're being encouraged to be up to date with our booster and flu shots, our roving reporter Leonard Powell checks in at South Seas Healthcare in Otara; it's King Charles III's first day at work after being crowned, we cross to London to check out how things are looking post-Coronation and acting PM Carmel Sepuloni apologises again for Immigration's Dawn Raid tactics. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - only one more sleep until King Charles' coronation, we head to the UK for the final countdown; which African leader will be in London for the big day? Despite republican tendencies the Australian PM has confirmed that he'll be pledging his allegiance; back home ACT Party's Brooke Van Velden is hoping to unseat the Nats Simon O'connor in Tamaki - what do the locals think? First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - the Kremlin has come under drone attack; we ask Labour's Deputy leader Kelvin Davis about Meka Whaitiri's shock resignation; we're in London as rehearsals get underway for King Charles quichey coronation continue; what does Australia's most vocal republican Peter Fitzsimons make of the coronation and is Artificial Intelligence going to rock our world - or has this brave new world been over-hyped? First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - we cross to the UK as it counts down to the country's biggest royal party; Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is in London for the fesitivities; closer to home, we ask Greens co-leader James Shaw if his party has been paralysed by in-fighting and the Coronation Chicken was never going to be an easy act to follow, but their majesties have chosen a quiche to mark King Charles' big day... whats the secret First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - we cross to London where preparations are underway for the Coronation of King Charles III; we ask National's deputy Nicola Willis why she keeps accusing the government of a secret plan to hit rich people with another tax; three months on from the Auckland floods, which houses can be rebuilt and where and a man is this morning setting off on a 100 kilometre swim from Great Barrier Island to Auckland, as you do. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - less than a week to the coronation of King Charles, we get the latest from the UK; a storm hovers over large parts of New Zealand with more heavy rain forecast throughout the day. Metservice joins us to let you know where; we talk with March 15 hero Abdul Aziz ahead of his trip to the UK to meet the new King and we hear from military veterans still waiting to be recognised for the harm they suffered witnessing nuclear tests in the 1950s. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - an Inland Revenue study showed the wealthiest Kiwis pay about 10% tax, while the figure for the average New Zealanders is near 20% - we ask ACT's Brooke Van Velden why the rich shouldn't be taxed more; nine weeks after Cyclone Gabrielle a sense of normalcy returns to Karekare in the form of a go-cart race and we meet a rat breeder with 350 people on her waiting list. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - the super-wealthy are paying way less income tax than the average New Zealander, so what's the loophole and how is the government planning to fix it - deputy prime minister Carmel Sepuloni joins us and the Olympic Committee is eyeing a chance to host the 2034 Commonwealth Games, is Aotearoa ready for one of the world's biggest sporting events? First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
On today's First Up pod - we're in Turkey for ANZAC Day, to take a look at how the day was marked in Gallipoli this year; Greens co-leader Marama Davidson joins us.. what will become of embattled MP Elizabeth Kerekere and nine weeks on from Cyclone Gabrielle, some red stickered homes are still waiting for geo technical assessments.. what's the hold up? First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
