First Up for Thursday 23 May 2024

5:52 AM.Labour's Deputy Leader Carmel Sepuloni isn't impressed with the ditching of the First Home Grant Audio

5:47 AM.The government has axed the First Home Buyers Grant - mortgage broker Grant Patten talked with Nathan Rarere Audio

5:37 AM.Malkit Singh has become the first New Zealand Sikh to climb Mt Everest - he talked with Nathan Rarere from his hospital bed in Kathmandu Audio

5:26 AM.Our Northland reporter Peter de Graaf tells Nathan about a good over-population problem with too many kiwi on Moturoa Island and a bad over-population problem with too many kina around the coast. Audio

5:17 AM.Heavy flooding in Afghanistan kills hundreds - reporting from Kazakstan is Anas Mallick Audio

5:06 AM.Emmanuel Macron is due to land in Noumea - Anita Purcell-Sjölund has the latest on news out of Europe Audio