Early morning news and current affairs with Nathan Rarere. RNZ National Mon-Fri at 5am
Auckland, New Zealand
Joined April 2019
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I've grown fond of Nathan on @FirstUpRNZ. A while back he asked Brooke how ACT would address child poverty. She said by adjusting tax thresholds. Nothing else. I shit you not! #MagicBullet
Week in Review:
Act is convinced its deputy leader, Brooke van Velden, can win the Tāmaki seat but a lot of things will have to go right for her to beat the National incumbent, writes Liam Hehir newsroom.co.nz/brooke-van-ve…
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Scott Barrett is free to play in the @AllBlacks opening @rugbyworldcup match against France after a judiciary deemed his two yellow cards from the Springboks loss to be sufficient punishment.
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@FirstUpRNZ hi here is some sporting greatness for you to feature on Monday morning… and on @NZMorningReport downhill junior x3 Nz girls placed top 3 in the world champs at Fort William… Erica is only 16! And from the Hutt!
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Nathan Rawere’s interview of Nicola Willis on RNZ’s ‘First Up’ was excellent. Probing and insightful. Higher profile RNZ presenters take note @FirstUpRNZ @NZMorningReport
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🔊 Why is the moko kauae, an ancient Māori tattoo, enjoying a revival? Join @kimvinnell on Reuters World News to find out reut.rs/3KEMU9m
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Official welcome back & Happy New Year to the team at NZ's best radio news show @FirstUpRNZ.
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Baby elephants typically don't learn to control their trunks until they're about a year old, which may result in behavior like this.
Early detection is key #cancerawareness
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Pakistan counts costs as floods continue to wreak havoc. @oldmannato talks to @omar_quraishi
#PakistanFloods
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Authorities in Pakistan are bracing themselves for more devastation as the country grapples with catastrophic floods @oldmannato speaks to @ShahmeerAlbalos
from Islamabad #PakistanFloods
It's going to take more than just turning Rotorua into "the bollard capital of New Zealand" to address the city's recent spate of ram raids and crime.
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Ok, what actually is an atmospheric river and why is it brining a month's worth of rain in just a few days?
@niwa_nz meteorologist and forecaster Tristan Meyers explains rnz.co.nz/national/programme…
Local government @lgnz nomination lists are looking sparse and the deadline is closing in
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National MP Sam Uffindell has denied terrifying a flatmate, but admitted beating a younger student during school. However, he says that boarding schools were full of 'rough and tumble' in the 1990s. Was bullying really the norm? And has anything changed?
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#LIVE The 2022 Commonwealth Games is drawing to a close as Birmingham ends its 12-day sporting extravaganza with an impressive line-up of performances. Follow all the action from the closing ceremony, set to begin any minute now, here. rnz.co.nz/news/sport/472494/…
"If I thought that Sam was still the same man as he was when he was a 16 year old who committed this act then I don't think there would be a place for him in Parliament, however I see that he is extremely sincere in his regret, in his genuine apology” - @NicolaWillisMP
National Party stands by MP Sam Uffindell after high school assault comes to light rnz.co.nz/news/political/472…