First Up for Thursday 11 March 2021

5:14 AM.Last election saw a record number of new MPs finding their way into Parliament. Not a heck of a lot of them were flying blue banners, but there were a few, one of them being Invercargill MP and former… Read more Audio

5:27 AM.Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa shared the honours in the first two races of the 36th Americas Cup. Team New Zealand comfortably won the first race by over half a minute but the Italians turned the… Read more Audio

5:31 AM.And while Luna Rossa and Team New Zealand were duelling on the Waitemata yesterday, the world's largest adventure race was coming to a gruelling end at Rotorua's Redwood Forest. Former All Blacks… Read more Audio

5:42 AM.The government laid out its plan for rolling out the Covid-19 vaccine yesterday, outlining which New Zealanders will be next in line to get the jab. Frontline health workers, people in residential… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.And the Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson says the government is flexible about who gets to stand at the front of the queue for the Covid-19 vaccine, after concerns were raised about people like… Read more Audio

5:54 AM.One person who'll be able to get the vaccine a little earlier than most is the Mayor of Auckland Phil Goff, who just sneaks into category 2b as someone who lives in south Auckland and is aged over 65… Read more Audio