First Up for Thursday 9 October 2025

5:52 AM.Labour's Willow-Jean Prime talks school attendance and yesterday's OCR cut Audio

5:46 AM.Since retiring from rugby last year, former Blues flanker/lock Tom Robinson's reinvented himself as a life coach and a yoga teacher. He talks to Nathan Rarere. Audio

5:24 AM.New Plymouth's mayoral race is wide open - RNZ's Robin Martin tells us who's up for the job Audio

5:15 AM.Henry Riley tells us why Kate and Jerry McCann are back in the headlines Audio

5:12 AM.Police prevent a hit in Sydney's west and a shark bites a surfer in South Australia - Emma Cropper has the stories Audio