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6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - New Zealand's biggest survey closes tomorrow, we speak to Stats NZ about census 2023; we hear from an Auckland couple who are running out of money after they were were forced… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - We ask ACT's deputy Brooke van Velden if her party is engaging in cancel culture; we're joined by a baker whose huge sourdough loaves are being snapped up before they leave… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - at least 36 people have been killed in a train collision in Greece, we'll have the latest from Europe; we ask Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni about crime in cyclone-hit… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta meets her Japanese counterpart; Greens co-leader Marama Davidson is with us for a Green perspective on the events of the week; no power and no… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - The CEO of the Hawke's Bay Chamber of Commerce, talks about distributing the 25 million dollars pledged yesterday to cyclone-affected businesses; we hear from a charity… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - It's been a rain-soaked summer and more wet weather is on the way, so is it time we get used to a sub tropical climate? There's an eagle on the loose in New York City Bevan… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Surf Life Saving's Matt Williams on the theft of critical radio equipment from Piha; deputy prime minister Carmel Sepuloni on flood recovery efforts across the country and in… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Japan proposes dumping nuclear waste from the Fukushima disaster into the Pacific Ocean and the Island nations are not happy; the floods haven't put a dampner on Auckland… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - the latest from the UK where a body is found in a river less than a mile from where UK mother of two Nicola Bulley vanished three weeks ago; the Government announces a 300… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - US Vice President Kamala Harris says Russia will be held to account for crimes against humanity; orchardists count the cost of cyclone Gabrielle. We tell you what you can do… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - we hit North America with Bevan, Africa with Nabil and the fresh produce markets with the Minister; as cyclone evacuees take stock of their situation in different parts of… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - At least four people dead and thousands homeless across Tairawhiti, Hawke's Bay, Northland, Auckland and the Coromandel; Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni joins us in the… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Ex-Cyclone Gabrielle has left a trail of distruction - we ask the Metservice if the worst is over; a group of Tongan workers have been rescued from a roof in Hawkes Bay; we… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - widespread evacuations and tens of thousands of homes are without power as Cyclone Gabrielle bears down on the North Island - we have updates from across the motu and local… Read more Audio

6:32 AM.On today's First Up pod - As people wake up to assess the damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle, we have updates from around the motu from the Mayor of the Far North, our reporters and Metservice; we get… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - we get the latest from Turkey where the death toll now stands at more than 19-thousand; the Act Party reckons that people don't need to earn the new $22.70 minimum wage in… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Ukraine's president Zelensky is in the UK - Henry Riley joins us from London; we get the update from Turkey where rescuers are racing against time to save people from the… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - the World Health Organisation predicts the final death toll from Turkey's devastating quake could top 30,000; 11 days on from Auckland's record-breaking floods, we're in… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Turkey is smashed by two huge earthquakes - we have the latest from the disaster zone; in Japan the sushi train could be arriving at its final stop; we ask National's deputy… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - We're in the USA and Africa with our international correspondents; back at home, Auckland's state of emergency is due to end today but with more thunderstorms forecast we're… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - the great egg shortage of 2023 continues.. we tell you what you can use as a substitute; Auckland children can return to school and childcare centres from today.. but how… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - The latest rain update from the Metservice; Ponsonby residents talk of the ongoing stench amid the cleanup after sewage mixed with rainwater on Friday night flooding their… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - two polls but very similar results... why do voters now prefer Chris Hipkins over Chris Luxon? National's deputy leader Nicola Willis is with us; floodwaters almost up to the… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has sacked Conservative Party chair Nahim Zahawi; And as rain still falls in the upper North Island we count the cost of Auckland's worst ever… Read more Audio

6:31 AM.On today's First Up pod - First Up's Minister of Fruit and Veg Glenn Forsyth has 2023's very first fruit of the week! More wet weather just in time for Auckland Anniversary weekend with Northland… Read more Audio