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The best of each day's First Up, with Nathan Rarere
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Best of First Up for Wednesday 4 December
4 Dec 2019On the podcast today: an American sports administrator reckons big changes to youth sport will turn around the decline in participation; two Pacific doctors create a chatbot to help answer questions… Audio
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Best of First Up for Tuesday 3 December
3 Dec 2019On today's podcast; frustrated retirement village carers are taking to the picket line to protest over what they say are zero-hour contracts; a Victim Support group in Samoa is having to quarantine… Audio
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Best of First Up for Monday 2 December
2 Dec 2019In today's pod: another 6 deaths reported in Samoa over the weekend; hospitality business owners are struggling to fill summer job vacancies and the volunteers who write Christmas cards to prisoners. Audio
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Best of First Up for Thursday 28 November 2019
On today's podcast: a new art exhibition is being launched tonight providing an intimate look at what it means to be 18 and a woman in New Zealand. It's 40 years since the Mt. Erebus disaster, our… Audio
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Best of First Up for Wednesday 27 November
27 Nov 2019In today's podcast: restoring sea knowledge to a new generation on board a Polynesian vaka; an American and Kiwi join forces to lobby for greater toilet access for those with Inflammatory Bowel… Audio
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Best of First Up for Tuesday 26 November
26 Nov 2019On today's podcast: recommendations made to change winter grazing practices; a kebab shop owner defies a local business association to stop feeding the homeless; how does a smoke-breathing… Audio
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Best of First Up for Monday 25 November
25 Nov 2019On today's podcast: a member of an all-female fire crew says women should give fire fighting a go; a New Zealand midwife who travelled to Peru to help a first-time mum give birth in a hut in the… Audio
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Best of First Up for Friday 22 November
22 Nov 2019In the Pod today: A woman who's made a complaint against Pharmac to the Health and Disability Commissioner says the drug-buying agency breached patient rights; the owner of a new Auckland daycare… Audio
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Best of First Up for Thursday 21 November
21 Nov 2019On the pod today: Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall vist Waitangi; we talk to our mayor of the week, Bernie Walden from Horowhenua and an Australian woman hailed a hero for saving a koala… Audio
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Best of First Up for Wednesday 20 November
20 Nov 2019On the podcast today: calls for dental care to be subsidised or free; the mother of a University of Otago medical student says it's overkill to stop interns from graduating with their peers, despite… Audio
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Best of First Up for Tuesday 19 November
19 Nov 2019On the podcast today: Royal fans turn out in pouring rain in Auckland to meet the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall; there's support 'in principle' for a plan to develop small-scale power… Audio
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Best of First Up for Monday 18 November
18 Nov 2019On the podcast today: property managers are unhappy with the Government's proposal to end "no-cause evictions"; an organisation representing disability providers says the government needs to take… Audio
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The Best of First Up for Friday 15 November
On the podcast today; measles is wreaking havoc across the Pacific, with Samoa, American Samoa, Fiji and Tonga confirmed to have the disease and the Auckland public health authority expects people to… Audio
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Best of First Up for 14 November
14 Nov 2019On today's podcast, we speak to the only Maori mayor in the country, Opotiki's Lyn Riesterer, and The public will now get a referendum on euthanasia in the next general election we speak to ACT's… Audio
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Best of First Up for 13 November
13 Nov 2019On the podcast today, we talk to Scion's Unmanned Autonamous Vehicle programme manager, Robin Hartley, about how flying drones are fighting Myrtle Rust. Ruth Wynn Williams gives us a report on the… Audio
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Best of First Up for 12 November 2019
12 Nov 2019On the podcast today we see what is trending on TradeMe for Christmas, we get an update from the Grace Millaine trial, and we check in with the all night party of astronomers who waited up for the… Audio
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Best of First Up for 11 November
11 Nov 2019On the podcast today, we hear from a New Zealand K-pop crew MDC who have just returned from Korea where they competed in the global K-pop Festival. Auckland's Kindness Institute who help Rangatahi… Audio
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Best of First Up for Friday 8 November
8 Nov 2019On the podcast today, Five months after the distinctive Wellington marae Tapu te Ranga burnt to the ground, the clean up is making slow progress and why an image of one of Aotearoa's most famous kuia… Audio
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Best of First Up for Thursday 7 November
7 Nov 2019On the podcast today, Could carbon neutral farming be the future for new Zealand? and Mateiwarangi Heta-Morris who has held New Zealand's Superheavy-weight Arm wrestling championship title for the… Audio
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Best of First Up for Wednesday 6 November
6 Nov 2019On the podcast today Chaos at the Melbourne Cup - a reverse decision, fears for the fate of one horse, and a record fine and ban for Kiwi jockey Michael Walker and should whipping be banned?. Audio
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Best of First Up for Tuesday 5 November
5 Nov 2019On today's podcast, a Trade Me listing for one thousand chickens has brought to light the fate of more than 5000 of the birds and does the creation of pavement-style walking tracks in remote areas… Audio
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Best of First Up for Monday 4 November
4 Nov 2019On the podcast today, Elderly Levin residents are being warned not to open their door to strangers and Indira talks to Manase Lua after Tonga's rugby league team make history. Audio
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Best of First Up for Friday 1 November 2019
1 Nov 2019On the podcast today, Auckland Council has given e-scooters the green light for another 6 months, 3 weeks into the job, we've got the 35-year-old, hitch-hiking Green party Mayor who's quite possibly… Audio
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Best of First Up for Thursday 31 October 2019
31 Oct 2019On the podcast today, Should solo parents on the benefit be required to vaccinate their kids? A woman pleads for the government to boost funding to the mental health Gumboot Fund and we hear the case… Audio
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Best of First Up for Wednesday 30 October 2019
30 Oct 2019In the podcast today, the heartwarming story of how stallholders at Christchurch market rallied to support a Turkish baker left with just a few dollars in her pocket. Is a house bus a building? A… Audio
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Best of First Up for Tuesday 29 October 2019
29 Oct 2019On the Podcast today, the leader of ISIS has been killed, but what does it mean for New Zealand nurse who's been held captive for the last 6 years? And after New Zealand'd defeat by England at the… Audio
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Best of First Up for Friday 25 October 2019
25 Oct 2019On the podcast today, we speak to National's Environment Spokesperson Scott Simpson, Auckland's Safeswim program manager Nick Vigar talks water safety after the SkyCity fire, we got to New Delhi where… Audio
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Best of First Up for Thursday 24 october 2019
24 Oct 2019On the Podcast today we talk to Auckland's Mayor Phil Goff about the consequences of the SkyCity fire, We talk to Megan Woods about how the 13 Million the Government is to invest to digitise a te reo… Audio
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Best of First Up for Wednesday 23 October 2019
23 Oct 2019On the Podcast today we get live updates on the SkyCity convention centre from Aucklands Mayor Phil Goff, we hear from Englands Rugby coach Eddie Jones, and we learn about a new importing business out… Audio
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Best of First Up for Monday 21 October 2019
On the podcast today we talk to All Black Aaron Smith, we find out if there are things we can change in-flight improve jet lag, and we talk to Jenny Marcroft about NZ First MP's split views on drug… Audio
