First Up for Tuesday 6 July 2021

5:48 AM.Quarantine-free travel will resume with Western Australia and Northern Territory from midnight Friday, and New Zealanders from New South Wales and Queensland will be able to fly home despite those… Read more Audio

5:36 AM.The morgue in Fiji's capital city Suva is reported to be filled to capacity, and the funeral service which runs it says they're bracing for more Covid-19 deaths.

The country reported 352 new positive… Read more Audio

5:32 AM.While the world's sporting heads will be turned toward Tokyo in two and a half weeks, some of the country's future Olympians continue to ply their trade around the world. One such athlete is… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.This week on TradeMe's cool auctions - the opportunity for lunch and a tour of parliament with ACT leader David Seymour . But first, TradeMe's Millie Silvester tells producer Jeremy Parkinson about an… Read more Audio

5:14 AM.From eating a rock, to a sock.. to chowing down on a pack of sewing pins... and a puffer fish. Southern Cross has released a list of its most unusual pet insurance claims of 2020. The insurer paid out… Read more Audio

5:05 AM.In the UK, Boris Johnson has announced the government will lift most of the remaining Covid-19 restrictions on July 19th, that's despite a backlash from the government's own scientific advisers who… Read more Audio