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News and current affairs with Nathan Rarere, weekdays at 5am.
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An early morning news and current affairs conversation hosted by Nathan Rarere featuring the people behind key issues and quirky human interest stories from New Zealand and overseas.
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Thursday, 24 June 2021
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Amazon destroying millions of unsold stock every year - report
24 Jun 2021An investigation by ITV news in the UK has discovered online retailer Amazon destroys millions of items of unsold stock every year.
Footage taken from inside Amazon's Dunfermline warehouse in… Read more Audio
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Developers approaching Papatoetoe tornado victims
24 Jun 2021A woman whose house was badly damaged by the devastating Papatoetoe tornado is angry that the very next day a property developer asked her if she wanted to sell up.
Assessors have finished checking… Read more Audio
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EU news: British warship causes ructions with Russia
24 Jun 2021To Europe where we are joined by our correspondent in Sweden Anita Purcell Sjölund. Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Wellington wakes to first day back at alert level 2
24 Jun 2021Wellington and surrounding areas moved to Alert Level 2 at six o'clock last night after an Australian tourist who visited the city over the weekend tested positive for Covid-19 upon return to Sydney.
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Wednesday, 23 June 2021
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Where's the money being spent in new mental health facilities
Just 500-thousand dollars of the $235 million set aside for new mental health facilities has been spent, leading the health minister to express his frustration at how longs it's taking to see the… Read more Audio
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How River Cottage turned meth makers into yoghurt makers
Now to a story about how a group of prisoners went from making methamphetamine to making yoghurt, turning it into a commodity so popular that it was smuggled between prisons. In 2013 best friends and… Read more Audio
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Fiji's government response to Covid-19 not up to scratch
23 Jun 2021Fiji has had another day of record Covid-19 cases as overseas medical teams including New Zealanders arrive in the country to help deal with the escalating crisis. There were 180 new cases yesterday… Read more Audio
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Olympic weighlifting debutant Cameron McTaggart ready to go
23 Jun 2021With just a month to go the New Zealand weightlifting team have been selected for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Cameron McTaggart will be making his Olympic debut in the men's under 81kg weight class… Read more Audio
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Cricket Test Championship update NZ vs India, 5th day
23 Jun 2021India have begun their second innings at bat in the World Test Cricket final in England - New Zealand led by 32 runs at the end of their first innings. The rain affected test is in to it's fifth - and… Read more Audio
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Shakespear Park battle stoat invasion creatively
23 Jun 2021Rangers at Auckland's Shakespear Regional Park are battling a stoat invasion, which they say is taking some creativity. It began with a single female Stoat sneaking into the park, and worsened after… Read more Audio
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NZ Made: Wild Weaves' Jessica Ensor
Wild Weaves NZ is a local business which combines woven yarn with dried flowers to make botanical wall hangings. The colourful pieces of art are handmade all by Jessica Ennor. Our reporter Ella… Read more Audio
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Wellingtonians asked to test, isolate, 72 hour ban on flights
We begin this morning in Australia where the growing Sydney Covid-19 cluster has closed the Quarantine Free bubble with New Zealand for the next 3 days and is heaping pressure on the federal… Read more Audio
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News and current affairs with Nathan Rarere, weekdays at 5am.
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