First Up for Thursday 7 August 2025

5:53 AM.MP Duncan Webb talks unemployment and other political issues of the week from the Labour Party's perspective. Audio

5:47 AM.White Ferns legend Suzie Bates is back from England and she's home preparing for October's World Cup Audio

5:26 AM.Jimmy Ellingham has the news from the neighbourhoods around the central North Island Audio

5:17 AM.Nine-year-old Dunedin golfer Joanna Ke is our newset golf champ, taking out an age group title in Northern Ireland, Nathan Rarere talked with her coach, Shelley Duncan. Audio

5:12 AM.Emma Cropper reports on the death of a Kiwi tradie in Sydney Audio