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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 TÄmaki 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-veā¦
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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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Kia Ora - we have National's Nicola Willis on Tuesdays, Greens on Wednesdays, Carmel Sepuloni on Thursday and ACT on Friday. From Monday we welcome Te Pati Maori. They all get "platformed" because we believe in balance. Thanks.
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Nathan Rawereās interview of Nicola Willis on RNZās āFirst Upā was excellent. Probing and insightful. Higher profile RNZ presenters take note @FirstUpRNZ @NZMorningReport
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š Why is the moko kauae, an ancient MÄori 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.
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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?
rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/4725ā¦
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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/ā¦
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Congratulations to Checkpoint's @LouiseTernouth, who has won Best New Broadcaster ā Journalist at the NZ Radio Awards, backing up her Best Student Journalist win at the Voyager Media Awards last year! šš„³
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.@AnushaBradley is one of the coolest and most clever journos at RNZ! Iām beaming with pride š„¹ā¤ļø ā at Auckland, New Zealand
.@AnushaBradley has taken out the Best News or Sports Journalist award at the NZ Radio Awards this evening. She's broken a number of important health stories over the past year for the In Depth team, which have also translated to wonderful radio stories. Congratulations Anusha!
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#LATEST: Our reporter @LouiseTernouth just won best new broadcaster - journalist at the NZ Radio Awards!
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Well done RNZs āFirst Upā having Willisās economic policy analysed by economist Shamubeel Eaqub. Excellent work @FirstUpRNZ
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Over the last couple of weeks I took a stab at writing a first-person essay about my experiences of being white-passing MÄori. It was scary, emotional and pretty hard at times, but hopefully worth it, as I'm sure others have had similar experiences. rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/4646ā¦
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Last year Sandra Goudie said she was not getting the Pfizer vaccine because she was waiting for Novavax injections instead.
Yesterday the government announced a quarter of a million doses had arrived - but Goudie didn't want one. rnz.co.nz/news/national/4630ā¦
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8 MARCH 2022 | COVID-19 UPDATE: 23,894 new cases today, 756 people in hospital - Ministry of Health
FULL STORY š rnz.co.nz/news/national/4629ā¦











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