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6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod: we check in with our correspondents in Australia and Africa and check out cool auctions on TradeMe; concerns the US Tennis Open has become a superspreader event thanks to a… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod: the hunt for a famous bass guitar; we ask National's deputy leader Nicola Willis about taxing foreign property buyers; find out the reason a small Hawke's Bay town is buzzing… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod: we're in the USA where thousands of people are stuck in the mud at a music festival; we discusses China's reaction to Japan releasing nuclear waste-water; the seeds are… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Anna Thomas in for Nathan: we get the latest on a deadly blaze that's killed more than 70 people in the South African city of Johannesburg; Maui continues its long road to… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - a Pasifika community leader who's retired from politics to return to his people; a Whanganui teenager who's in Italy for the In-line Speed Skating World Championships; deputy… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Green Party's Julie Anne Genter joins us to talk about the cuts to climate change spending; the eye-watering price one cafe is charging for an iconic Kiwi treat and National… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - we speak to the author of a new report about workplace health and safety that shows on average 73 Kiwis die at work each year; National party deputy Nicola Willis talks about… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - the cold facts about Aotearoa's long winter, and when (or if) we can expect the weather to get warmer; with only weeks to go until the general election, Te Pati Maori's… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - the roads have way more cyclists than there used to be, we visit a humble bike shop in Mt Albert to see what got people pushing pedals; ACT Leader David Seymour joins give us… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - controversy in Whakatane over a street name that's apparently too long; Henry Riley is back from holiday as the hunt for Nadine Dorries continues; Police Minister Ginny… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - the latest political poll shows support for the Green Party is up - we speak with co-leader Marama Davidson; a teenage kickboxing sensation about to represent New Zealand on… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Britain's worst child serial killer Lucy Letby is sentenced in London; tens of thousands of evacuations across British Columbia and Canada's NorthWest territories as… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - the death toll from the wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui is now 114 as authorities declare it the deadliest natural disaster in state history; First Up Minister of… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - British broadcaster Michael Parkinson has died - we have a look back at his extraodinary career; David Seymour on the government's $20 billion transport plan and how ACT… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - the Matildas are out of the FIFA World Cup - recent football convert Pam Corkery on Australia's reaction; the Breakers basketball team sign their shortest player ever; deputy… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - former President Donald Trump is facing more charges; we talk solar power with Greens co-leader Marama Davidson; we hear from a company that will let your pets fly inside the… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Commuters in Nelson-Tasman are buzzing with excitement about new electric buses; Spain and Sweden face off at Eden Park for the Women's World Cup semi final tonight - we… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - the death toll from the Hawaiian wildfires heads toward 100, we cross there for the latest; Te Pati Maori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa Packer on Labour's plans to remove GST from… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Jimmy Ellingham in for Nathan today: Hawaii's firestorm claims the lives of 36 people; a sell-out crowd - Tuesday's semi final in Eden Park will be the last FIFA Women's… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Jimmy Ellingham in for Nathan today: Taking indoor cricket to the next level... we speak to a man who installed a cricket pitch in his attic; Police Minister Ginny Andersen… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod: Africa and the Middle-East are in our international sights this morning - as more migrant ships sink off the Italian coast: Bernard Hickey breaks down Blackrock's 2 billion… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod: we head to Japan where the awkwardness of the release of the film Oppenheimer and the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb is under the spotlight; in the UK, they've begun… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod: not a good weekend for New Zealand at the netball - we get the update from Bridget Tunnicliffe in South Africa; Te Pati Maori co-leader Rawiri Waititi with their plans on… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod: the Silver Ferns fall to Jamaica - will they make the semi-finals?? Bridget Tunnicliffe joined us from South Africa; Donald Trump is due in court...again; ACT's flies high in… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod: We're in South Africa, where the Silver Ferns are taking on the hosts in the Netball World Cup; the latest Newshub Reid Research poll has ACT and National on track to govern… Read more Audio