First Up for Thursday 2 December 2021

5:49 AM.As you have heard in Ella's package, Auckland hospitality businesses are devastated they won't benefit from the government's $37.5 million support package despite being one of the sectors worst… Read more Audio

5:42 AM.As hospitality businesses around Auckland prepare to open to customers tomorrow for the first time in 108 days, the Restaurant Assocation says its devastated the industry is excluded from the… Read more Audio

5:34 AM.Its time to check out the goings on in US sport and when we do that we catch up with our friend Dan Dibley from 95.7 The Game in San Francisco. It's an interesting time in world sport with the stars… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.It's time to cast our ears around the country and have a yarn with our one of our Local Democracy reporters. This week we are in the West Coast talking to Lois Williams. SNAs or 'Significant natural… Read more Audio

5:11 AM.To Japan now where the country's borders have been shut tight in response to the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. Nathan Rarere caught up with our correspondent in Tokyo Chris Gilbert, and asked him… Read more Audio

5:06 AM.We begin this morning in Europe - Nathan Rarere was joined from Sweden by our correspondent Anita Purcell-Sjölund. Audio