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Many charitable organisations, such as private schools, universities and churches also run commercial businesses that turn a tidy profit - but under current law, they pay no income tax. Read more Audio

Cyclone Alfred, the first tropical cyclone to make landfall in Queensland in 50 years, has transformed Australia's iconic east coast beaches through dramatic erosion. Read more Audio

As an online cultural teacher, Tū answers questions ranging from pronunciation to protocol for getting moko. He is also the bass player for the award-winning heavy metal band Alien Weaponry. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.This weekend, Auckland Museum is holding a Wikipedia edit-a-thon, teaching people how to go about making and editing pages on the online, people-powered encylopedia, and filling some big gaps in the… Read more Audio

10:30 PM.He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music. Read more Audio

10:18 PM.Emile Donovan speaks to the Warriors' inaugural captain Dean Bell. Read more Audio

9:35 PM.Nights' resident screen critic is back with a selection of weekend viewing suggestions. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.This week we're in Tāmaki Makaurau where one of the largest and most vibrant celebrations of Pacific Island cultures, returns this weekend. Read more Audio

11:07 PM.This week's guest on the Mixtape is long-time RNZ studio engineer Jeremy Ansell. Not only an audio operator and team leader at RNZ, but equally a much-respected music researcher. Over the years Jeremy… Read more Audio

Fourteen breweries have submitted unusual flavours, and tomorrow expert judges and regular punters alike will be taste-testing them. The challenge is run in tandem with a fundraiser for Rare Disorders… Read more Audio

An experiment developed by a Canadian behavioural scientist asking you to think of ten words that are as unrelated as possible can predict your verbal creativity. Read more Audio

Some commentators have called it an excuse to cut Goff from the post of UK high commissioner, but analyst Geoffrey Miller says diplomats simply can't have political opinions. Read more Audio

9:35 PM.The managing editor of Te Herenga Waka University Press joins Emile Donovan to brave the challenge of rereading a significant book from her past: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. Read more Audio

Was caesar salad named after the famous dictator? What about the caesarean section? Read more Audio

Upper Hutt may have once shied away from its bogan side but is now set to embrace and celebrate it with a two-day festival of all things bogan. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Sophie Hughes has just picked up her record-breaking fifth nomination for the International Booker - more than any other single translator - for translating Italian writer Vincenzo Latronico's novel P… Read more Audio

10:18 PM.The last seven years have been among the toughest in our economy's history, and the Reserve Bank has drawn both praise and criticism for its moves to get inflation under control. Read more Audio

9:25 PM.Every year millions of people from all around the world eagerly tune into a livestream broadcasting from a body of water in the Netherlands hoping to catch a glimpse of a fish waiting at a door, so… Read more Audio

8:30 PM.A humble food truck in the 40-strong town of Papatowai in the Catlins has taken out the top spot in the Burger Nation competition. Read more Audio

10:45 PM.Mark Leishman talks to the creator of the Stolen Bikes Christchurch and Canterbury Facebook Page Noel Andrew. Read more Audio

10:30 PM.Today marks one hundred and seventy years since one of New Zealand's most enduring folk heroes was arrested for rustling sheep. Historian Annette Bulovic joins Mark Leishman. Read more Audio

10:17 PM.Jenny Douglas is a paediatric dietician and joins Mark Leishman. Read more Audio

9:45 PM.Emeritus Professor, Geo. Cumming from La Trobe University in Australia joins Mark Leishman.  Read more Audio

9:25 PM.In a new Nights feature, we talk to ambassadors and high commissioners to New Zealand. Tonight, we meet H.E. Keith Smith, High Commissioner of Canada. Read more Audio

8:30 PM.New Zealander Jenny Clark is heading to Mauritius in a few weeks' time to defend her champion croquet title. She joins Mark Leishman. Read more Audio