First Up for Thursday 15 April 2021

5:50 AM.Nathan Rarere asked the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Sport and Recreation Grant Robertson if he thinks the inclusion of Pasifika teams in Super Rugby is overdue. Audio

5:44 AM.In a move considered by many to be long overdue, two teams from the Pacific Islands will compete in next year's Super Rugby competition. New Zealand Rugby announced yesterday the inclusion of Moana… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.And as we've done every Thursday for the last little while, we'll hear now from one of the fantastic reporters from the Local Democracy Reporting Programme. This week the LDR crew is in Auckland to do… Read more Audio

5:30 AM.The Indian Premier League cricket has kicked off.. and one of the stars of the commentary team is former Black Cap Simon Doull. Nathan Rarere talked to him just before we went to air, and asked how… Read more Audio

5:22 AM.It is offically less than 100 days until the Tokyo Olympics starts and we are trying to speak with as many Olympic athletes as possible in the lead up. Yesterday Nathan Rarere caught up with Rugby… Read more Audio

5:13 AM.Conservationists are dumbfounded as to why anyone would travel to Muriwai's much-loved gannet colony with an air gun and slaughter eight birds. Police are investigating who is responsible for the… Read more Audio

5:05 AM.First Up this morning we head to Europe, where Denmark has just become the first European country to bin the Oxford Astra Zeneca covid vaccine completely. Our Europe correspondent Catherine Walbridge… Read more Audio