First Up for Thursday 1 July 2021

5:52 AM.And joining Nathan Rarere from the Chatham islands is our producer Matthew "Te IKA NUI" Theunissen who is making history of his own because he was the only reporter brave enough to get on the plane in… Read more Audio

5:49 AM.Let's go back to the Chatham islands now where their vaccine rollout is set to begin this morning. We've woken up our producer Matthew Theunissen who is there.. But first let's hear from two of the… Read more Audio

5:41 AM.With cases continuing to rise in Australia and opposition claims that we might run out of Pfizer vaccines here in New Zealand, Nathan Rarere asked the Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson what the… Read more Audio

5:34 AM.And it's the time of the week when we catch up with our friends from the Local Democracy Reporting programme, who've been breaking stories up and down the country. Not least of them is LDR Northland… Read more Audio

5:27 AM.Let's return to the Chatham Islands.. We sent our producer Matthew Theunissen there on Tuesday night to follow today's vaccination rollout. We'll wake him up to hear more shortly but first here's… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.To Fiji now where they have recorded 312 more Covid-19 cases and four more covid related deaths. There are now 3306 active cases in isolation with 21 deaths reported since March 2020, 19 of which are… Read more Audio

5:17 AM.The first vials of the precious Covid 19 vaccine have arrived on the Chatham islands. Our First Up producer Matthew Theunissen was there yesterday as six community leaders rolled up their sleeves to… Read more Audio