First Up - The Podcast, Wednesday 17 May

On today's First Up pod - We head around the world with Pam Corkery in Australia, the Pacific with Kalafi Moala and to the Middle East with Alex Baird; we ask Pharmac why there is a dire shortage of menopause medicine; Green Leader James Shaw demands answers about the Newtown Hostel Tragedy and we ask him about tomorrow's budget and survivors tell First Up what it felt like - inside their burning home. First Up - Voice of the Nathan!