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5:50 AM.To discuss the issue of fair pay and all the other big topics this week we're joined by Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni. Audio

5:45 AM.Cleaners employed by several major cleaning companies were picketing in Auckland yesterday, after being offered no boost in recent pay negotiations. The E tu union has been negotiating for commercial… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.The FIFA World Cup may be in full swing but the Netball World Cup starts tomorrow night in South Africa with the Silver Ferns hoping they can defend the title they won four years ago. Their first game… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.To Tauranga now, where a new $306 million civic precinct plan's been given the go ahead, aimed at reviving the city's heart. Meanwhile leaders from around the region have joined forces to urge the… Read more Audio

5:15 AM.It is makariri in New Zealand this morning, -1 in Rotorua! A stark contrast to the United States where more than 100 million people are under heat alerts with 60 million expected to endure… Read more Audio

5:08 AM.Let's go now to Henry Riley in the UK. Audio

5:51 AM.To politics now, a recent poll shows that less than half of New Zealanders have been to the dentist in the last year. Yesterday the Greens' health spokesperson Ricardo Menéndez March launched a… Read more Audio

5:46 AM.Time to talk football, and it was a dramatic match between New Zealand and the Philippines in Wellington last night. The Football Ferns lost 1-nil to the Philippines - who are making their first… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.The NEW first rule of business might be to quit business school! That's been the experience of young entrepeneur Oakley Inkersell. The 20-year-old from Christchurch has made headlines as far away as… Read more Audio

5:21 AM.Religious structures are big on TradeMe this week, with a church in Southland and a Shinto temple themed ... hearse up for auction. But before we go there, producer Jeremy Parkinson talked with Millie… Read more Audio

5:13 AM.Let's go now to the Middle East - joining Nathan Rarere is our correspondent Alex Baird. Audio

5:06 AM.Time to find out whats going on in the land girt by sea, with Pam Corkery. Audio

5:50 AM.Staying with the news of Kiri Allan's resignation from her ministerial portfolios - in her regular discussion on First Up, National's deputy leader Nicola Willis reflected on the high pressure job it… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Labour MP Kiritapu Allan has resigned from all her government portfolios, after she was charged in relation to a car crash in Wellington on Sunday night. Back in 2021, she was highly praised - for how… Read more Audio

5:34 AM.If you're looking to buy a classic video game that was released before 2010, you'll need a lot more than good luck. That's because 87 percent of these are critically endangered according to a major… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.Checking out the neighbourhood of north and regional Canterbury now with local democracy reporter David Hill. Due to the amount of rain they had over the weekend Nathan Rarere asked David how the… Read more Audio

5:14 AM.Time now to get the latest from Japan with our correspondent Chris Gilbert. Nathan Rarere started by asking him if China's enthusiam for a summit with South Korea and Japan is because it wants to… Read more Audio

5:06 AM.We begin Tuesday in the UK - where a BBC newsreader is back in the news, this time it's long-serving presenter George Alagiah, who has died at the age of 67, with Nathan Rarere from London is… Read more Audio

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

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

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

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

5:54 AM.It was a night to remember at Eden Park yesterday evening, as the FIFA Women's World Cup kicked off, with the opening ceremony and the Football Ferns' record breaking win over Norway! It's been a busy… Read more Audio