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First Up for Wednesday 2 June 2021

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  • Fed Farmers Mid Canterbury VP on how farmers affected by floods

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    Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy on a farm visit as he announced support for flood-hit Otago farmers.

    5:49 AM.Nathan Rarere spoke with Federated Farmers vice president for mid Canterbury David Acland. Audio

  • Cantabrians face huge cleanup, road closures, disruption

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    Wreckage of a car in the Ashburton Forks area, inland from Ashburton.

    5:43 AM.Large parts of Canterbury remain cut off from the rest of the country this morning after raging flood waters tore up highways, left bridges at risk of toppling, and tossed tonnes of debris onto roads… Read more Audio

  • Farmers need more than half a million dollars in flood relief

    Flood affected areas around Ashburton.

    5:34 AM.The government has unlocked half-a-million dollars to support farmers devastated by the Canterbury floods. Farmers have reported losing the feed they need to feed their stock over the winter, milk… Read more Audio

  • Israel looks set to have new PM as opposition form coalition

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    Kamahl Santamaria and Neftali Bennett

    5:18 AM.Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Government looks set to be replaced as opposition party's work towards a coalition to form a government. Israel has gone to the polls four times… Read more Audio

  • Vaccinated Pam Corkery talks Melbourne's lockdown in the studio

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    John Healy, a resident of the Wesley Taylor aged care facility, becomes the second person in Australia to receive a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Castle Hill Medical Centre in Sydney on February 21, 2021. (Photo by STEVEN SAPHORE / AFP)

    5:12 AM.Let's go now to our Australian correspondent Pam Corkery who's actually with us here live in our Auckland studio this morning. And whilst some have been questioning the pace of our own vaccine… Read more Audio

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