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A consumer watchdog says new rules requiring testing for asbestos contamination are a positive move, but most shoppers would expect testing is already happening. Luka Forman reports.

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

If the prevailing attitudes from economists and financial markets are to be believed, we could be seeing another hike in the official cash rate today... just 10 sleeps from election day. Kiwibank chief economist Jarrod Kerr spoke to John Campbell.

It's Tokelau language week in Aotearoa; meanwhile, voting enrolments close, and polling booths open across the country; and filmmakers document the impact of El Niño in Papua New Guinea.

It's a significant week for the Tokelauan community in Aotearoa New Zealand as they celebrate Te Vaiaho o te Gagana Tokelau - Tokelau Language Week.

In Aotearoa, elections are right around the corner and early voting is underway.

A Belgian filmmaker and a Papua New Guinean principal are coming together to highlight the impact El Nino is having on isolated communities in the Pacific.

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

The Summer Youth Olympic Games get underway this weekend and it's the first time an Olympic event has been held in Africa. Nearly 3,000 atheltes will compete across 25 sports, and some of our best young athletes are there to represent New Zealand. Chef de Mission Evelyn Williamson spoke to First Up about the competition and the atmosphere in Dakar.

Nicola Willis tells First Up about National's campaign and ambition for their next term.

Jean Bartlett shares stories of community support and creativity from the eight Salvation Army Family Stores across Manawatu, Tararua, and Wairarapa

Europe correspondent Anita Purcell-Sjölund brings First Up the latest from the region.

We're tiptoeing into even trickier territory; property again, but now, we add relationships to the mix.

The Prime Minister says the country isn't divided, and Labour "sucked" in government.

A wrap of the day's big stories

How do you convince an alien species that humans deserve to live? And what if you're starting to doubt they do? That simple but terrifying premise is at the centre of a new science fiction novel from New Zealand author Mandy Hager. It's Hager's 23rd book, and set in 2297, on an Earth devastated by climate catastrophe. The title of the book is Lifted and it officially launches in Wellington at Unit...

ABC Wantok Program for 27 October 2026.

It's time for Shower Thoughts, our weekly attempt to answer the questions that get stuck in your head and refuse to leave. Tonight's one is this: in a world of GPS, Google Maps and instant tracking, why are we still relying on bits of colourful fabric to tell us who and where we are? Do we actually still need flags in the 21st century? Joining Emile to fly the flag for flags, and possibly put us s...

It's time for us to get up to speed. To tune into the zeitgeist. To chat about what's happening in pop-culture and the world wide web. Joining us tonight, for our regular segment on Nights, it's the Dial-Up with Anna Rawhiti- Connell.

The latest news from Melanesia.

Cast your mind back to 2014 - Marie Kondo released the English-language version of her book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, and posed that now-infamous question, "does this spark joy," which guided homes around the globe in their quest to declutter. It leant into the philosophy that clutter can get in the way of the life you want. But new research by my next guest suggests there are some m...

You've heard the stories, the hospitality sector in crisis, nobody's drinking anymore, on one hand hurrah, the world capital of binge drinking is growing up. On the other, oh dear. Nobody knows how to socialise anymore, Gen Z is condemned to pass through life listless singletons melting their brains with AI slop, rather than ethanol. The narratives are seductive, they probably reinforce our own in...

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan. Then: Waikato University senior lecturer Chip Van Dyk gives Wallace a history lesson on Halloween, from carved pumpkins, to trick or treating, to bobbing apples.