Navigation for First Up

  • First Up home
  • Episodes
  • Search
  • Galleries
  • Collections

First Up for Tuesday 4 May 2021

  • Previous Episode: Monday, 3 May 2021
  • Next Episode: Wednesday, 5 May 2021
  • Reti:primary care workers should be core of vaccinators

    health
    National Party deputy leader Shane Reti

    5:50 AM.Shane Reti says he can't understand why primary care workers like GPs and pharmacists aren't the core of the government's vaccine rollout. That's one of the topics touched on with the National Party's… Read more Audio

  • Fishing, swimming, eating: Cook Islands tourism ready to go

    5:43 AM.In less than two weeks New Zealanders will be able to hop on a plane and just four hours later find themselves in a tropical paradise. Yes that's right after a long - LONG - wait the two-way travel… Read more Audio

  • Cook Islands' Tourism Council excited over travel annoucement

    Pacific world

    5:34 AM.It's almost Cook Island bubble o'clock.. After an unprecedented 14 months, New Zealanders will finally be able to travel to Rarotonga without having to quarantine from May 17. Air New Zealand will fly… Read more Audio

  • Cook Islands' Tourism Council excited over travel annoucement

    Pacific world
    No caption

    5:34 AM.It's almost Cook Island bubble o'clock.. After an unprecedented 14 months, New Zealanders will finally be able to travel to Rarotonga without having to quarantine from May 17. Air New Zealand will fly… Read more Audio

  • The Wonderful World of TradeMe with Logan Mudge

    life and society

    5:25 AM.This week in the wonderful world of TradeMe we've gone political. The Prime Minister has taken to the easel again all in the name of charity and a Christmas post card that may or may not be from the… Read more Audio

  • NZ High Commission in India apologises after oxygen tweet

    world
    An oxygen cylinder being delivered to the New Zealand High Commission in Delhi.

    5:17 AM.Back to India now, where the New Zealand High Commission in New Delhi has had to apologise to the Indian Government after tweeting a plea for an oxygen cylinder to help several locally hired staff… Read more Audio

  • Mike Pero: Pasifika Air back on the runway

    Pacific
    Pasifika Air - the new venture from Mike Pero.

    5:13 AM.The Cook Islands travel bubble announcement yesterday has given a lifeline to an airline planned by businessesman Mike Pero. Pasifika Air had been due to fly between Rarotonga and Wellington and… Read more Audio

  • Mike Pero: Pasifika Air back on the runway

    Pacific

    5:13 AM.The Cook Islands travel bubble announcement yesterday has given a lifeline to an airline planned by businessesman Mike Pero. Pasifika Air had been due to fly between Rarotonga and Wellington and… Read more Audio

  • UK, missing elections, holds thousands on Super Thursday

    world

    5:08 AM.Nathan Rarere caught up with all the news from the UK with our correspondent Henry Riley. Audio

  • Previous Episode: Monday, 3 May 2021
  • Next Episode: Wednesday, 5 May 2021
shielded