Navigation for First Up

  • First Up home
  • Episodes
  • Search
  • Galleries
  • Collections

First Up for Monday 27 June 2022

  • Previous Episode: Thursday, 23 June 2022
  • Next Episode: Tuesday, 28 June 2022
  • Free doctors visits shifts pressure from DHBs to GPs

    health infrastructure

    5:53 AM.Last week we spoke with a South Auckland GP from one of the 27 clinics offering free weekend consultations in order to relieve pressure on Middlemore Hospital's overloaded emergency department. In… Read more Audio

  • The end of the era of the District Health Board

    health infrastructure
    Wairoa hospital

    5:49 AM.On Friday, District Health Boards will disappear and Health NZ and the Maori Health Authority take over. To get to this point, some areas have taken part in a pilot scheme to figure out how it will… Read more Audio

  • States quick to criminalise abortion after SCOTUS decision

    health law
    Protesters gather outside the US Supreme Court in Washington DC, following the reversal of Roe vs Wade.

    5:43 AM.To the United States, where some states have already made it illegal for a woman to get an abortion, with clinics forced to close their doors and women needing treatment to cross state lines to get… Read more Audio

  • Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth

    food
    Rhubarb

    5:22 AM.What's fresh on Monday at the produce markets? Joining Nathan is our full of beans - and apples - Minister of Fruit and Veggies, Glenn Forsyth. Audio

  • Afghanistan: disease prompts fear that earthquake toll will rise

    natural disasters
    Houses damaged in Gayan district, Paktika province, Afghanistan, after the earthquake on 22 June 2022.

    5:15 AM.To Afghanistan now where survivors of last week's earthquake struggle to find food and shelter - and now authorites fear outbreaks of diseases such as cholera. Nathan talked with our correspondent in… Read more Audio

  • US Supreme Court abortion decision felt around the world

    health law
    Red paint thrown by an abortion-rights activist is seen in front of the Supreme Court building.

    5:05 AM.The impact of the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe V Wade is being felt across the country and around the world.. Nathan talks to New York correspondent Anna Burns-Francis. Audio

  • Previous Episode: Thursday, 23 June 2022
  • Next Episode: Tuesday, 28 June 2022
shielded