First Up for Thursday 16 December 2021

5:48 AM.Nathan Rarere put some of the concerns raised by those Northland businesses to the Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Grant Robertson. Audio

5:42 AM.Northland's tourism operators say that if they can't welcome visitors back to the region soon, there won't be an industry at all in the not too distant future. Te Tai Tokerau is the only region that… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.Aotearoa might well be re-named The Land of the Long Grey Cloud after being absolutely soaked these past couple of days with rain-watches and warnings issued up and down the country over the past 48… Read more Audio

5:24 AM.It's that time of the week when we join one of the ace reporters from the Local Democracy Reporting programme. This morning we're in South Auckland with Justin Latiff. Audio

5:15 AM.Your chance for Disney movie stardom is up for grabs but you'd better be in quick. Acclaimed producer Chelsea Winstanley's Matewa Media are taking iconic Disney films and making Te Reo versions. In… Read more Audio

5:11 AM.From ex-Europe to actual Europe now, from whence Nathan Rarere was joined from the most Scandi of Scandinavian countries by the World's most northern Samoan..Dr Anita Purcell Sjölund. Audio

5:05 AM.We begin this morning in the UK, where Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in trouble, he's faced his largest rebellion yet. Joining Nathan Rarere from London is our correspondent Henry Riley. Audio