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First Up for Thursday 9 March 2023

  • Previous Episode: Wednesday, 8 March 2023
  • Next Episode: Friday, 10 March 2023
  • Transport minister on fixing flood ravaged roads

    transport politics
    Waka Kotahi national emergency response team leader Mark Owen, Transport Minister Michael Wood, MP for Tukituki Anna Lorck.

    5:50 AM.Nathan Rarere spoke with Transport Minister Michael Wood. Audio

  • Tainui volunteer driver on impact of road closures

    health transport
    Waka Kotahi says the State Highway 25 underslip between Opoutere and Hikuwai appeared to have deteriorated on 8 March.

    5:45 AM.Coromandel's State Highway 25 between Opoutere and Hikuai was restricted to one lane and light vehicles only overnight, after a major slip deteriorated further this week eating into the road. For… Read more Audio

  • AK Zoo now charging $2 for parking

    life and society transport
    Zoos: Auckland: Animals: Elephants
Ma Shwe, the nine-year-old Indian elephant at the Auckland Zoo, peering over the wall of her enclosure to watch the activity in Motions Rd.
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13 September 1974 New Zealand Herald Staff Photograph

    5:34 AM.Like Georgie Pie and smoking on aeroplanes, free parking at Auckland Zoo is now a thing of the past. Yesterday was the first day of paid parking in the Zoo's Western Springs carpark - which is… Read more Audio

  • Europe: Greek protestors still holding rallies against govt

    world
    Riot police forming a security cordon in front of the Hellenic Train headquarters in Athens, during a protest by about 700 demonstrators after the country's worst-ever rail disaster. 2 March, 2023.

    5:17 AM.Let's head to Europe now - with Nathan Rarere from Sweden for her weekly report is the world's most over-qualified radio correspondent Dr Anita Purcell-Sjölund Audio

  • UK: BBC host Gary Lineker criticises govt immigration policy

    world
    Gary Lineker and a cellphone.

    5:06 AM.Let's kick off Thursday's programme in the UK - with Nathan Rarere from London is Henry Riley. Audio

  • Previous Episode: Wednesday, 8 March 2023
  • Next Episode: Friday, 10 March 2023
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