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5:46 AM.Catastrophic fires are still burning through New South Wales and Queensland with firefighters battling more than 60 fires. Paul Williams is from Lake Cooroibah, on the Sunshine Coast and told the ABC… Read more Audio

5:36 AM.What is the business team is focusing on today? Gyles Beckford joined us live on the show to let us know. Audio

5:25 AM.Let's take a look at what's up on TradeMe this week as Christmas rapidly approaches. Bay of Plenty's famous yellow fire-engine-with-a-face, Bernie, is up for sale for at least ten thousand dollars… Read more Audio

5:13 AM.In the UK, Nigel Farasszhge has announced that his Brexit Party won't stand candidates in the 317 seats won by Conservative MPs in the 2017 election. Mr Farage explained his position to supporters a… Read more Audio

5:54 AM.A petition to ban the sale of fireworks to the public has gathered almost 25,000 signatures with organisers wanting Guy Fawke's celebrations restricted to public displays organised by Councils. In… Read more Audio

5:43 AM.As Mike King's Gumboot Fund runs out of money, another youth wellbeing program says funding is also a constant struggle. Auckland's the Kindness Institute is trying to give young people the tools they… Read more Video, Audio

5:27 AM.As we head in to another week, it is of course time to check in with our Minister of Fruit and Veg Mr Glenn Forsyth! Audio

5:23 AM.Back home, New Zealand based K-pop dance crew MDC have just returned from competing in the global K-pop Festival in South Korea. Only thirteen groups from around the world get selected to perform, and… Read more Audio

5:52 AM.An image of one of Aotearoa's most famous kuia, Te Pāea Hinerangi, will feature at this weekend's U2 concerts in Auckland. While the band performs their song 'Últra Violet (Light My Way)', Te Pāea -… Read more Audio

5:26 AM.Glenn Forsyth looks at the weekend's fruit and veg buys Audio

5:23 AM.Five months after the distinctive Wellington marae Tapu te Ranga burnt to the ground, the clean up is making slow progress. There's still a large pile of ash and rubble where the multistoried… Read more Audio

5:20 AM.The Children's Commissioner Andrew Beecroft says a report into Oranga Tamariki's removal of a baby from a Hawkes Bay mother is a daming indictment of a failed and flawed social work policy. The… Read more Audio

7:02 AM.Each week we're planning to speak to mayors from around the country, to find out a little bit about them. Today I'm joined by the new mayor for Lower Hutt - Campbell Barry, who at 28-years-old, is the… Read more Audio

5:43 AM.There are many names for the man who has held New Zealand's Superheavy-weight Arm wrestling championship title for the last 8 years. Some call him big MAT, others call him 'the BEAST'. And at 6.2 and… Read more Video, Audio

5:33 AM.Let's go to business now where every morning we answer a question about business. And do the latest labour market numbers mean that unemployment is set to rise Audio

5:22 AM.Could carbon neutral farming be the future for new Zealand? The first carbon neutral Chicken farm is open in the Netherlands. Kipster farm claim to produce ethically friendly eggs and be carbon… Read more Audio

5:19 AM.A private school has warned that as many as 70 of its students have become addicted to nicotine through vaping. St Peters Cambridge says teens are getting around the R18 restriction on vapes… Read more Audio

5:55 AM.Kiwi jockey Michael Walker who rode second place Prince of Arran in the Melbourne Cup, pleaded guilty to using his whip 12 times before the final 100m - recieving a seven meeting suspension and a… Read more Audio

5:39 AM.Scores of people are trying to get the MMR vaccine in Samoa - after the recent deaths of two young children and a 37-year-old man. Samoa's government declared a measles epidemic in mid-October. RNZ… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.How much money is enough to retire on? Business reporter Nona Pelletier has more. Audio