Show Notes
On today's First Up pod with Melissa Chan-Green: 32 countries have agreed to dip into their emergency oil stocks in a bid to curb rising prices, an explanation as to why Iran's new Supreme leader has not yet been seen in public or on TV - neighbouring Pakistan walks a diplomatic tightrope, Anas Mallick joins us from Islamabad; it's back to the polls for Papatoetoe voters after vote fraud in the local board election and former Black Cap Luke Woodcock on keeping positive after a terminal diagnosis. First Up - Voice of the Nathan.
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