Pete Ross joins us with the latest from the BBC World newsroom.

How does a long lazy meal shared around a farmhouse table in the Huon Valley in Tasmania sound? Particularly when you're served multiple dishes straight from the gardens and paddock - all seasonal, all grown by hand, and all cooked in the open kitchen. The venue is called Fat Pig Farm and they say "everything possible has been sourced from within the farm itself, including from the 1.5 acre market garden". We'll be joined by Head Chef Niccola Mudge to talk all about it.

Train lines have been disrupted in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara/ Wellington resulting in some cancellations today and into tomorrow. Samantha Gain, General Manager of Metlink tells Karyn what you need to know.

Despite being on a partial strike, firefighters around the country continue to respond to emergencies. Their fight for better pay, conditions and mental health support seems to have stalled with their employer Fire and Emergency NZ. Invercargill Fire Station officer and union secretary Aaron Ramsey has been a firefighter for 22 years and says many of his colleagues have to work overtime just to pay the bills.

To help you keep the cost of your kai down, each week we feature an item that represents great value and easy eating. The eat of the week is ONION. The best buying we found is a kilo of loose brown onions for 99 cents. Tristan Ball is a 3rd generation onion grower and tells us about this pantry staple.

A year 13 student from St Orans College in Upper Hutt has launched a campaign including an online petirion for 'legal captioning standards' on media producers. Currently much of New Zealand's video content, like news, tv shows, sporting events and movies can't be accessed by around 800,000 thousand Deaf and Hard of Hearing people. Hope Cotton is doing something about it.

How do you get economic security in difficult times? According to Maori Development Minister Willie Jackson, it is by investing in wahine and rangatahi - women and young people.  Willie explains how the money will fund development, leadership and programmes focussed on lifting the skills of wahine and rangatahi.

Today Justice Minister Kris Faafoi announced the names of those who will be leading an independent review of electoral laws to "better support people to exercise their democratic right to vote". Chairing the panel will be lawyer Deborah Hart who is currently chair of the Consumer Advocacy Council and the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand.

Pete Ross joins us with the latest from the BBC World newsroom.

140 years ago New Zealand's first ever shipment of frozen sheep meat docked in London on board the Steam ship the SS Dunedin. It was remarkable journey for a number of reasons. Of the 5000 carcasses frozen, only one didn't make it. And the journey was the beginning of what is now a multi billion dollar industry. It all began in Otago, and to celebrate the occassion a special dinner is being held in Oamaru. Karyn speaks to one of the organisers, Jo Hay.