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Correspondent Anas Mallick brings First Up the latest from the region.

The latest news in Cook Islands Maori (Te reo Maori Kuki Airani) - brought to you by our partner Pacific Media Network.

There's a song about Spring, Hey Duby brings the dance beats, and Claudia Robin Gunn will lift you up. There are jokes, fun facts about race cars, and we ask kids, 'what's one thing you'd do if you were Prime Minister of New Zealand?'

From drug money to building sites, how criminals are trying to turn dirty cash into legitimate wealth

Election debates keep on coming, platforming the 'major' and 'minor' leaders. Could a costings unit cut back the scraps? Also: did Nights and Hayden Donnell's Kiwibank scoop give Jon Oliver the wrong idea about NZ radio? Do our culture wars rate, and is BS OK on air?

A wrap of the day's big stories

It's time for our fortnightly chat with Nights' resident sociolinguist, associate professor Julia de Bres. Tonight, we are talking all about making requests...

We're crossing to the APRA Silver Scroll Awards, which this year mark 100 years of celebrating Aotearoa's best songwriters and composers. For the first time this year, APRA has introduced Te Tihi o te Maunga Tito - a new award honouring the songwriters behind kapa haka and the original waiata that carry te reo Maori, culture and identity. And its inaugural winner is Rob Ruha, for Te Tapuni, perfor...

Christian Smith dials in from London with news from the other side of the world. Tonight - Mi5 warns of AI biological weapons, Merchant ships hit off the coast of Bulgaria, prompting anger at Russia, French supermarkets hit by cyber-attacks, and Winnie the Pooh turns 100 years old.

ABC Wantok Program for 14 October 2026.

Making decisions about what to study at university is one of those eternally tricky topics ... And while it seems that the modern student has more options that ever... why aren't more girls choosing engineering? It's the question fuelling our guest tonight... Ashleigh Fox, The University of Auckland's Women in Engineering project manager, has spent years researching what influences the decisions o...

The latest news from Melanesia.

If you've been following the election, you'll know that which parties are open to working with each other post-election is a hot topic... especially with the minor parties polling so strongly. Christopher Luxon has repeatedly ruled out working with Opportunity, and last night during the multi-party debate, Qiulae Wong reaffirmed her stance against working in a government with Winston Peters as for...

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport

Join Wallace for New Zealand's most explosive 30 minutes of politics. He is joined by panellists Tracey Martin, Stephen Parker and Annebelle Lee-Mather. They discuss last night's TVNZ multi party debate, criticism some parties are getting for meeting with the Mongrel Mob, New Zealand's abstention of a UN vote on global pandemic preparedness and more.

An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan. Then, for another episode of Museum Show and Tell, Southland's Fire Service Museum chairperson, Les Costigan, introduces Wallace to two prized possessions: Captain Hamilton's silver helmet, and a 1957 Commer fire appliance.

Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Niki Bezzant and Chris Clarke. First up, nurse workforce numbers are shaping up to be a significant election issue. Earlier this month, a government directive want out to limit the number of nursing students. Auckland University Nursing Professor Andrew Jull reacts. Then, after a Wellington community housing resident spoke to the panel...

United Kingdom correspondent Lucy Thomson spoke to Lisa Owen about the head of the intelligence service giving his annual address in London, as well as new research about the state of the UK's bird population.

In this week's Sonic Moment of Calm Bryan Crump stumbles across a whole lot of bumble action.

News from the business sector, including a market report.

The Kiwis and Kiwi Ferns are turning to home for inspiration ahead of their Rugby League World Cup campaigns. Both sides play their opening matches of the tournament this week, one against tournament favourites, the other against World Cup newcomers. Sports reporter Jonty Dine spoke to Lisa Owen.

Hundreds of collectables once owned by The Chills front man and rocker Martin Phillipps are up for auction, with proceeds to go to charity and causes close to his heart. The eclectic collection includes James Bond books, a keyboard, drawings by Phillipps, plus a stripey guitar he played in a Chills video. Friend of Phillipps and curator of the Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery, Bruce Mahalski spok...

It could have transformed Kerikeri for the better, hundreds of urgently needed homes next to to the town centre, an expanded CBD, and public access to a scenic stretch of river. But that's not how it's working out so far. Northland reporter Peter de Graaf reports.

Is diversity a good or bad thing for New Zealand? It was a question posed at TVNZ's multiparty debate last night, and four of the five leaders agreed it was good. NZ First leader Winston Peters did not. New Zealand First's policy is to hold a referendum on a legislated annual cap on the number of residents visas. Massey Emeritus professor and social scientist Paul Spoonley spoke to Lisa Owen.

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