First Up for Thursday 31 August 2023
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Carmel Sepuloni's reaction to National's tax plan
5:51 AM.To politics now, and yesterday National made it's big tax announcement - saying it was targeting the 'squeezed middle' and promising households would get between 20 and 250 dollars a fortnight with… Read more Audio
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Kiwi teen Chase Morpeth at Speed Skating World Champs
5:44 AM.Now, to the thrilling sport of in-line speed skating, which has taken teenager Chase Morpeth from his home town in Whanganui to Europe - where he's competing in the Speed Skating World Championships… Read more Audio
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Frenchman causes international incident over food tweet
5:34 AM.In the 90s the greatest advice you could give a drunk flatmate was ... don't drunk txt your ex... don't do it. In these modern times the same advice could be applied to social media posts. This week a… Read more Audio
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Pasifika leader resigns from politics, heads home to Flaxmere
5:22 AM.Time now for the local democracy reporting part of the programme, and joining us now with all the latest South Auckland and Pasifika reporter Kim Meredith. She started by telling Nathan Rarere about a… Read more Audio
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Europe: Wildfires still causing havoc in Greece
5:15 AM.Positioned for a perfect view of the entire continent of Europe is Anita Purcell-Sjölund in Sweden. Audio
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UK: Law change to see criminals attend sentence hearing
5:06 AM.It's Thursday and no better time to head to the UK where Henry Riley is on the job. Audio
