First Up - The Podcast, Thursday 14 August
Aug 13, 2025•42 min
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Episode description
On today's First Up pod: we get world news from the UK and Australia; Labour's education spokesperson Willow Jean Prime talks teachers pay, NCEA and the scrapping of te reo Maori in some school books and our Waikato reporter Libby Kirkby-McLeod tells us about the moment firefighters ran out of water at a Hamilton blaze. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!
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