First Up for Wednesday 7 July 2021

5:53 AM.Celia Hay, the Director of the New Zealand School of Food and Wine, speaks to Nathan Rarere about the understaffed hospitality industry and how most hospitality students have already been snapped up.

5:47 AM.Restaurants across New Zealand have been forced to close their doors as Covid-19 border restrictions cause understaffing in the hospitality industry. The industry is calling for urgent visa… Read more Audio

5:37 AM.Striving for success is a goal for many .. but what about the goal of being The Greatest Of Them All? Well, earlier this year a young British man decided to give M&M stacking a go and walked away a… Read more Audio

5:24 AM.Some of the country's restaurant owners are urging the government to let more hospitality workers into the country First Up has spoken to operators who have shut shop due to the lack of staff, and… Read more Audio

5:15 AM.A new study has found that older New Zealanders are starting to care more intensely about climate change and are increasingly accepting that humans are behind the crisis. Over 56-thousand Kiwis… Read more Audio

5:09 AM.We cross the ditch to Brisbane correspondent Pam Corkery, to get the latest on the Australian news. Audio