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First Up for Wednesday 3 May 2023

  • Previous Episode: Tuesday, 2 May 2023
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 4 May 2023
  • Greens: pleased with changes to Clean Car rebate

    politics
    Police seized multiple assets including a Hummer.

    5:51 AM.Dawn raids tactics are still happening, despite the government's apology for the 1970s raids. This comes as Immigration admitted carrying out at least 18 out-of-hour visits to people it referred to as… Read more Audio

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  • Coronation:Chris Hipkins meets with Prince of Wales

    world
    Prime Minister Chris Hipkins answers media questions after a pre-Budget speech at the Employers and Manufacturers Association offices in West Auckland on 27 April 2023.

    5:45 AM.Nathan Rarere was joined from London by our correspondent Ellie Jay. Audio

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  • Countdown to coronation: details of King Charles' outfits

    world
    A picture shows St Edward's Crown, the crown used in coronations for English and later British monarchs, and one of the senior Crown Jewels of Britain, during a service to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in London on June 4, 2013. - Queen Elizabeth II marked the 60th anniversary of her coronation with a service at Westminster Abbey filled with references to the rainy day in 1953 when she was crowned.  AFP PHOTO / POOL / JACK HILL (Photo by JACK HILL / POOL / AFP)

    5:45 AM.Nathan Rarere was joined from London by our correspondent Ellie Jay. Audio

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  • Countdown to coronation: what's on the menu?

    food
    King Charles' Coronation Quiche

    5:34 AM.The countdown to the King's coronation continue The subjects of the new British monarch will foot a $200 million (nzd) bill for the grand event. That eye-watering price tag includes a coronation menu… Read more Audio

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  • Wonderful World of TradeMe with Audrey Malone

    life and society
    Han Solo and Chewbacca

    5:24 AM.This week on TradeMe - the flashest house in all of Timaru - and a knitted King Charles. But it's not only Coronation week - it's also Star Wars week, tomorrow being May the 4th. Producer Jeremy… Read more Audio

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  • Palestine fires rockets into Israel after death of Khader Adnan

    world
    Rockets are fired from Gaza City, Gaza on 7 August, 2022, in the aftermath of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

    5:14 AM.With Nathan Rarere from Doha is our correspondent in the Middle-East Alex Baird. Audio

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  • Australian govt bans non-prescription vapes

    world
    Vaping

    5:06 AM.Let's begin in Australia - Nathan Rarere is joined from Brisbane by Pam Corkery. Audio

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  • Previous Episode: Tuesday, 2 May 2023
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 4 May 2023
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