Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

This is my last day on Early Edition for 2025. I’ll be on Drive for a few weeks from Monday and while I won’t lie, I’m looking forward to few sleep-ins before Christmas, I will miss our wee 5am club. It’s a huge privilege to be here with you every morning as you wake up, head off to work, off to school sport or home from a night shift yourself.  Your messages and emails bring so much to the show, so I want to thank you for all your feedback. The good, the bad, the hilarious, the thoughtful, and even the nutty ones. This show is as much yours as it is mine. The beauty of this early hour is the breaking international stories we bring you. The sad ending to the Tom Phillips happened overnight this year. We’ve had elections, budgets and updates on wars in far flung places.  This show is designed to keep you up to date with business as much as politics, after all, the real engine and true heart of this country doesn't whir and beat out of Wellington, but out of the staff rooms, factories, farm