First Up for Thursday 8 April 2021
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Robertson: Privately funded drugs admin too expensive for public
5:50 AM.Nathan Rarere spoke with deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson and began by asking him whether was fair to people like Mandy. Audio
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Admin of privately funded drugs huge cost for patients
5:42 AM.Bowel cancer patient Mandy Grantley who had to pay 64-thousand dollars to get unfunded treatment says it's outrageous that half the cost went towards getting it administered because under the current… Read more Audio
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LDR Whanganui: 50 percent shortage of GPs in next 5 years
5:33 AM.Every Thursday we get one of reporters from the Local Democracy Reporting programme to wake up early and tell us what's been happening on their beat. LDR is a free public-interest news service… Read more Audio
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Australian tourists will give much needed boost for tourism
5:23 AM.Our tourism operators are champing at the bit to have Australian tourists back once the travel bubble opens on April the 19th. But how much of a boon are they going to be for the struggling sector… Read more Audio
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Women's health services chronically underfunded
5:15 AM.A leading healthcare professional says the problems facing women's health services would've been solved long ago if they'd been affecting men. Yesterday, the Gender Justice Collective gathered on the… Read more Audio
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Europe adds rare blood clots to AZ vaccine side effects
5:10 AM.To Europe, where the European Drug Agency has been addressing concerns about blood clot links to the AstraZeneca vaccine. And the results are through in Greenland's snap election which could have big… Read more Audio
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Grave of unknown soldier finally identified
5:08 AM.A 103-year old mystery has been solved with the identification of the grave of an unknown New Zealand soldier killed in the First World War. The unmarked grave at the Dochy Farm 'New British Cemetery'… Read more Audio
