First Up for Thursday 23 March 2023

5:50 AM.Cracks are starting to appear in the Labour - Green Party cooperation agreement with the Chris Hipkins administration ending work on a raft of climate change policies. The container and bottle… Read more Audio

5:45 AM.Problems continue to plague the Auckland suburb of Titirangi nearly two months on from January's flooding. Patience is wearing thin for some, who are worried their street is at the bottom of the… Read more Audio

5:36 AM.Rowing's Maadi Cup kicks off at Lake Karapiro on Monday morning. The national regatta gathers over 2000 rowers each year, but with the ferries being touch and go recently, teams from the South Island… Read more Audio

5:26 AM.We head over to the Marlborough region now where Local Democracy Reporting Programme journalist Maia Hart has been busy on the beat. One of the stories she's been looking into is a 12 kilometre bus… Read more Audio

5:17 AM.To Europe now - joining Nathan Rarere from Sweden is our correspondent Anita Purcell-Sjölund. Audio

5:06 AM.We begin this morning in the UK, where it seems the only story in town is Boris Johnson's testimony in front of a parliamentary select committee investigating "partygate". With Nathan Rarere from… Read more Audio