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Two years ago, the Australasian crested grebe, the pÅ«teketeke, took out the title of New Zealand’s Bird of the Century. But when the billboard on the Champs-Elysse got swapped out, and the clips of John Oliver dressed in a grebe costume dropped off the YouTube algorithm, who stuck around? Claire Concannon meets two dedicated grebe supporters battling different challenges at Lake Hayes and Lake WÄnaka.
Big and profitable Kiwi companies hiking their prices during a cost of living crisis have been accused of losing their social licence - but what is that?
A wrap of the day's big stories
Professor Joe Boden joins Mark Leishman to discuss the issue.
ABC Wantok Program for 13 October 2025.
Rob Hugh Jones from the BBC World Service joins Nights to take a look at some of the events making international headlines.
RNZ's Jamie Wall joins us to take a look at the weekend that was in sport.
The movie is having its New Zealand premier in Greymouth tonight.
Andy Asquith is a keen local politics watcher and governance scholar, a New Zealander but residing in Australia and he joins Mark Leishman.
The latest news in Solomon Islands Pidgin (Tok Pisin).
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 Mark Leishman. Then: Condè Nast, the publisher of Vogue, Vanity Fair and Glamour, will no longer feature "new animal fur in editorial content or advertising" in any of its titles. It's the latest high profiel ban on fur fashion - is this the end of fur? And what's the history of anti-fur activism?
In part two, we return to the local election results and the low voter turnout. The panel talks a researcher who argues that those who opted out of voting were acting entirely rationally. Then, the panel talks to the former police officer who combats his PTSD by keeping bees and talking to them. He says it keeps him calm and helps with his well being.
Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Leonie Freeman and Rajorshi Chakraborti. With the first hostages due to be released, the panel looks at the new peace plan for Israel and Hamas - will it stick? Then, after the local elections, half of our councils will have new Mayors. So what's driving the shift? One word: rates.
United Kingdom correspondent Lucy Thomson spoke to Lisa Owen about the UK Prime Minister attending the internation peace summit in Egypt, as well as hour long queues forming at airports around Europe due to the roll-out of a new entry-exit system.
The Pike River film premieres in New Zealand tonight at the Regent Theatre in Greymouth on the West Coast. It tells the story of the fight for justice following the disaster through the eyes of Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse, who both lost family members in the 2010 tragedy in which 29 men lost their lives. Samantha Gee is in Greymouth and spoke to Lisa Owen.
News from the business sector, including a market report.
Mountain biker Sammie Maxwell has faced battles on and off the bike and today she became the first New Zealander to win a Cross Country World Series title. The 23-year-old clinched the title in the final round in Canada - a success she put down to her ability to ask for help. Sports reporter Felicity Reid spoke to Lisa Owen.
Tel Aviv correspondent Blake Sifton spoke to Lisa Owen about the latest on the Israeli hostage release.
'They've started to have the attitude women should go back to the kitchen and shouldn't work.' That from a 13 year old student who says she left school due to a rise in misogynistic and extremist behaviour by some boys in her class. Checkpoint recently spoke to the author of a report about the concerning rise of this sort of toxic masculinity in schools. Since then we've been contacted by teachers and students who've told us first-hand what it's actually like to fall victim to it. A warning, some of the details in Louise Ternouth's report are confronting.