First Up for Wednesday 25 October 2023

5:51 AM.2023 is the Year of the World Cup and the Black Caps have got a good thing going at the Cricket World Cup in India.

A lot has been made of the small crowd sizes, but on the pitch, New Zealand have… Read more Audio

5:46 AM.Wallabies, adorable and harmless on the rugby field, but harmful and devastating to Aotearoa's ecosystem. 14 year old Cameron Moore from Rotorua was concerned about the growing wallaby population in… Read more Audio

5:36 AM.As unrest in the Middle-East intensifies, experts are battling a war of another kind - social media is full of misleading information. There are false videos, photographs and even tampered official… Read more Audio

5:25 AM.This week on TradeME one of the country's smallest cars and Tairua's landmark, landlocked ferry, producer Jeremy Parkinson talks with Tiana Barns about a piece of designer jewelery raising funds for… Read more Audio

5:14 AM.To the Pacific now - Cyclone Lola is currently located near Vanuatu. For the latest on its path Nathan is joined from Tonga by correspondent Kalafi Moala. Audio

5:06 AM.Our Australian correspondent Pam Corkery joins Nathan Rarere from across the ditch where bushfires are burning throughout Queensland. Audio