First Up for Friday 20 May 2022

5:53 AM.The country's drug-buying agency Pharmac has received its biggest increase to its medicines budget ever with 191 million dollars to be spent over the next two years. Fiona Tolich lives with Spinal… Read more Audio

5:48 AM.Transport was a big focus in the leadup to yesterday's Budget with calls for the half price transport scheme and fuel tax reduction to be kept amid the ballooning cost of living. The two schemes have… Read more Audio

5:27 AM.We are well into Autumn now - and as we head in to winter, it's a good time to remember to BUY IN SEASON.. With Nathan Rarere, as he is every Friday is our Minister of Fruit and Veggies, Glenn… Read more Audio

5:18 AM.To Australia where as soon as tomorrow night Australia could have a new Prime Minister The federal election will elect members of the 47th Parliament of Australia. Nathan Rarere asked the ABC's Gavin… Read more Audio

5:14 AM.Every Friday we head to Africa - Nathan Rarere spoke to our correspondent Nabil Ahmed who is in Accra, Ghana. He asked him about Zimbabwe's enormous stockpile of elephant ivory and what the government… Read more Audio

5:07 AM.We begin this morning in the United States where President Biden has welcomed the leaders of Sweden and Finland - for more on that, Nathan Rarere was joined from New York by TVNZ's corresondent in New… Read more Audio