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First Up for Monday 24 July 2023

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 21 July 2023
  • Next Episode: Tuesday, 25 July 2023
  • Te Pati Maori: capital gains tax needed for Maori to get ahead

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    Rawiri Waititi

    5:53 AM.Let's stay on the topic of housing - as we hear from Te Pati Maori co-leader Rawiri Waititi. Audio

  • Housing: Susan St John explains alternative to capital gains tax

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    Emergency providers are warning more families will be sleeping in cars this winter. One housing trust is getting up to a dozen enquiries every day.

    5:48 AM.The government has acknowledged that there are currently 480 applicants for social housing who are living in cars, and it includes families with children. In October 2017 that number was 102.

    A week… Read more Audio

  • The fine art of camel racing in outback Australia

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    Arabian camels (Camelus dromedarius), feral in outback, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific (Photo by Ann & Steve Toon / Robert Harding Heritage / robertharding via AFP)

    5:32 AM.Boulia in Queensland, Australia is a remote outback town with just 300 people. But recently, its population swelled to about 3-thousand - for what's called the Melbourne Cup of camel races Camel… Read more Audio

  • Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth

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    5:23 AM.And back from his high stakes trans-Tasman trade mission is our Minister of Fruit and Veggies Glenn Forsyth. Audio

  • Pacific: US secretary of state to dedicate new embassy in Tonga

    5:14 AM.To the Pacific now - with Nathan Rarere from Tonga is Kalafi Moala.. Audio

  • US: another Trump indictment looms

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    5:06 AM.Let's begin this morning's programme with Newshub's North America correspondent Mitch McCann who joins us from California this morning. Audio

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 21 July 2023
  • Next Episode: Tuesday, 25 July 2023
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