First Up for Wednesday 9 June 2021

5:51 AM.Around 30-thousand of the country's nurses will take part in an eight hour strike today to demand better pay and conditions at work. Nurses will picket outside hospitals around the country from 11am… Read more Audio

5:44 AM.Over-crowded, soiled carpets, inadequate toilet facilities and patients subject to potentially degrading behaviour. That's how Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier described the Te Whare Ahuru 'acute care'… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.To the Cook Islands now where the burst travel bubble is in to its fourth week and it seem business is booming. We've been talking with Liana Scott who is GM of the Muri Beach Club Hotel and president… Read more Audio

5:25 AM.To Fiji now where the country is battling it's worst Covid-19 outbreak to date with 147 new cases in the last two days alone. 681 cases have been recorded since the latest outbreak began in April, for… Read more Audio

5:18 AM.As you wake up this morning, you might find that a number of your favourite international websites are either down or struggling to perform. Joining Nathan Rarere to tell us more is our UK… Read more Audio

5:09 AM.Melbourne continues to put out covid-19 fires with at least 3 more community cases in the last 48 hours. The city is still in lockdown and it's possible the initial week long lockdown, which was… Read more Audio