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ABC Wantok Program for 30 October 2026.

Polo cross, underwater hockey, foot volley ... who doesn't love a good hybrid sport? Well in just a few days time, the best speedgolfers in the world - yes you hear that right, speed golf - are going to be teeing off on our shores for The World Speedgolf Championship. Kiwi Amy Linton is the back-to-back New Zealand Women's open champion - and she's hoping to take out the top spot. So what is speed golf and how does it work? Amy joins Emile for a chat.

This Dwarfism Awareness Month a fantastic article was published in Australia to raise awareness and understanding of what it's like living with the physical condition.

The piece centrered around hearing from a person with dwarfism about what we should and shouldn't ask ... what's appropriate and what could be considered offensive. 

Well, we thought it would be wonderful to have our local Nights version of this conversation - so we have enlisted Jess Smith, president of Little People of New Zealand.

It's been three years since the Erin Patterson case first gripped Australia and the world after she murdered three people by serving them a meal laced with deadly death cap mushrooms. Since then there have been multiple podcasts, books, countless news articles and now television series, with New Zealand's own Melanie Lynskey set to play Patterson. And today, the case was back in the headlines, with Victoria's Court of Appeal rejecting Patterson's bid to overturn her murder convictions and increasing her sentence to life in prison without parole So will our fascination with this case ever fade? And what do Australians make of the seemingly endless appetite for it? Joining Emile is Dr Xanthe Weston a Criminologist, from Australia's CQUniversity.

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

Anisha experiences the Methven Rodeo, and meets the people behind it.

On the site of an old school south of Otaki, Makahuri is becoming a village of homes, gardens, chickens, cows and neighbours who look out for one another. Sally Round visits a co-housing community discovering village life takes plenty of work, compromise and conversation.

Maori agribusiness consultant Hilton Collier on Te Tairawhiti's changing land uses.

A wrap of conditions on farms and orchards around the country.