First Up for Tuesday 20 June 2023

5:53 AM.Booking tickets to go see your favourite artists has been getting more expensive. Some feel, sneakily so. Some ticketing agents also charge a booking fee, a payment processing fee and a handling fee -… Read more Audio

5:44 AM.The government is abandoning a funding condition of an extension that they added to the early childhood education policy in March. Currently the scheme offers three-to-five year olds 20 hours of free… Read more Audio

5:33 AM.A new business lane just opened up in the business sector, Heybarn is an online service that's matches those with available space to those who don't have enough. It was launched earlier this year and… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.Time now for the Local Democracy Reporting part of our programme and today we're catching up on the news of Taranaki with Craig Ashworth. The push for sea-bed mining off the coast there has a new… Read more Audio

5:13 AM.To the Pacific now - joining Nathan Rarere from the Marshall Islands is our correspondent Kalafi Moala. Audio