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First Up for Wednesday 16 February 2022

  • Previous Episode: Tuesday, 15 February 2022
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 17 February 2022
  • Tow firms sympathetic to Parliament protestors, won't move cars

    police traffic

    5:51 AM.A tow truck operator says the reason towies won't move the vehicles illegally blocking streets outside of Parliament is not due to safety concerns as claimed by police - it's because they sympathise… Read more Audio

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  • Red setting, phase 2 but is scanning in on the out?

    Covid-19
    Covid scan countdown - LDR

    5:46 AM.Since the Government's Covid tracer app came into force QR codes have been mandatory for most businesses, but as the Omicron wave hits, are we still scanning in? And do we actually need to? At… Read more Audio

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  • Winter Olympics: NZ wins a silver medal in Big Air snowboarding

    sport world
    Gold medalist Zoi Sadowski Synnott  raises the New Zealand flag in the women's slopestyle snowboarding final during the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

    5:38 AM.The Winter Olympics hit another peak yesterday, with Zoi Sadowski-Synnott taking a silver in the BIG AIR snowboarding .. Nathan Rarere asked our man in Beijing, Patrick Fok, whether the support shown… Read more Audio

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  • Wonderful World of TradeMe with Ruby Topzand

    life and society
    Trade Me website

    5:23 AM.This week on TradeMe's cool auction list is an old-skool fundraiser utilising the powers of the sharpie pen and the 2021 All Blacks.. And a vehicle that will keep your drinks cool But first TradeMe's… Read more Audio

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  • Space the final frontier: James Parr on Space News

    space
    Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard lifts up from the launchpad, at the Europe’s Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, on December 25, 2021.

    5:23 AM.Every few weeks we talk with James Parr from the Open Space Agency.. and he and Nathan Rarere had a chin wag. Audio

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  • US: Prince Andrew settles out of court with Virgina Giuffre

    world
    The Duke of York Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts (now Giuffre) and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001.

    5:11 AM.All eyes were on Russia over the past few hours as President Putin and the German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz held a joint press conference after meeting in Moscow. This follows Russia's Defence Ministry… Read more Audio

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  • NZer deported from Australia over minor fraud conviction

    world
    No caption

    5:05 AM.We begin this morning in Australia where the issue of criminal deportees from Australia to New Zealand has raised its head again - this time an attempt by the Australian government to deport a man… Read more Audio

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  • Previous Episode: Tuesday, 15 February 2022
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 17 February 2022
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