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There are plenty of new faces vying for the seat of West Coast Tasman. The seat has traditionally been a Labour stronghold but has been held by National's Maureen Pugh for the last term. Samantha Gee reports.

Catch up with the latest headlines from around the world with RNZ's Alice Wilkins.

ACT has become the latest of the major political parties to release a KiwiSaver policy this election. It's promising to remove tax on KiwiSaver earnings and scrap Government contributions. Terry Baucher, director of an Auckland-based tax consultancy firm spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

Ke-Xin Li finds out how parents are juggling competing demands these school holidays.

Australia is home to more than 170,000 Maori, many of whom will be eligible to vote in Election 2026. Community leader Kiri Barber is working hard to get people to enrol to vote. He spoke to First Up about what inspried him to start the work and some of the barriers to getting people signed up.

Ross McNaughton finds out how many people are across the new changes to road rules.

Glenn Forsyth, First Up's Minister of Fruit and Veg, highlights magnificent mushrooms and receommends salad and navel oranges for the week ahead.

Correspondent Katherine Firkin has the latest from New York.

On today's First Up pod: news from the United States, Monday's fresh produce outlook, finding out who is across the new road rules, encouraging Maori in Australia to vote, and counting the cost of school holidays as parents juggle work and parenting.

Tamariki talk about what's in space, young Zoe reviews the book Magic Mistakes, and there's a trio of kid comedians with their best jokes.

Red zone soil

Shamubeel is back in Balclutha, trying to understand why some of the financial statistics seem to be tracking in the right direction, finally. And what he discovers is that 10 years ago, some locals - determined their town wasn't going to die - created a unique model to build new houses. But more than that, they set about trying to make sure their towns got 'younger.'

The EU is looking at a landmark complaint over New Zealand's alleged climate deal violations.

A wrap of the day's big stories

All the top stories and other headlines from the day

Karl Puschmann joins Culture 101 with his picks for October. He recommends Happiness Season Two on Three and ThreeNow, the local musical comedy about an ex-Broadway director forced to return to Tauranga, which won him over completely in its first season and hasn't dropped the ball in its second. He's enthusiastic about Kill Jackie on Neon, a stylised Catherine Zeta-Jones action thriller with comic...

Magenta Creative Space is Nelson's only fully resourced creative studio, giving people the chance to try their hand at a range of artforms. Strategic director Rose McGrannagan joins Culture 101 to talk about what the space offers, why it's been struggling to stay open, and the fundraising effort underway to carry it through the year.

Rua is the debut novel of Candice Tutauha, who completed a Master of Creative Writing at the University of Auckland and has spent close to a decade developing the story. It follows a young Maori woman in a tight-knit small town who dreams of becoming a writer and moving to New York City, navigating gang tensions, domestic violence and the weight of community expectation. When a soldier's diary fro...

Michelle Langstone reviews three new releases: Big Girls Don't Cry, Paloma Schneiderman's Sundance Audience Award-winning debut feature and New Zealand International Film Festival Best Film winner, starring newcomer Eny Palmer as a teenager navigating an Omaha summer in 2006, which Michelle describes as acutely observed and immersive in the way it captures that teenage feeling of waiting for life...

Cornelia Parker is one of Britain's most celebrated contemporary artists, known for large-scale installations that begin with acts of destruction. Her 2022 retrospective at Tate Britain cemented her status. She's now in Wellington for the opening of her first solo public gallery exhibition in New Zealand, at the newly earthquake-strengthened City Gallery Wellington, bringing together more than 50...

The Sargeson Prize is New Zealand's richest short story competition, named after Frank Sargeson and sponsored by the University of Waikato. Conceived by writer and lecturer Catherine Chidgey, it's open to original, unpublished work of no more than 5,000 words, with a prize of $15,000 for the Open Division winner. The award evening took place last night. Perlina Lau speaks with this year's winner.

The top stories and other headlines at midday

Bonnie Harrison is here guiding us through the latest weird and useful headlines from the world of science. This week: the menagerie of mites and bacteria that can be found in your unwashed bedsheets, how your smartwatch might be fooling you into eating more, and how the T-Rex really only walked as fast as a human.