RNZ: Sunday Morning

What are Labour's tactics in opposing the National-led Government? Is it a real tactic to simply hope that National stuffs up so much that it loses the next election?

Jeremy Rose speaks with professor Norman Finkelstein and looks at the activism in the resistance of Mahatma Ghandi. Closer to home, Jeremy speaks with Rachel Buchanan about Parihaka and, perhaps, the world's original non-violent resistance.

Rob Morrison is chairman of Pure Advantage, a not-for-profit group of business leaders advocating environmentally-friendly economic growth.

The steroid scandal that turned silver into gold at the Olympics; a new proposal to persuade the public to pay for journalism - and the view of a veteran - and; the Aussie entrepreneur spending a small fortune fighting Rupert Murdoch's papers.

Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile is in New Zealand for a conference marking 100-years of the African National Congress. A former Minister of sport in the ANC government, Rev Stofile was jailed under the apartheid regime and visited New Zealand in 1984 to lead the campaign against the proposed All Blacks tour of South Africa. He's ambassador to Germany and an ordained minister of the Uniting Presbyterian Church in South Africa.

It's three years since the Government embarked on the country's most expensive ever road building programme.

Alastair Bisley, the chairman of Land and water forum - that unique collective of interests that is finding a way of resolving the seemingly unresolvable - how to manage our increasingly stressed freshwater resources in a win-win way.

In Ideas we hear from Jim Flynn - arguably New Zealand's foremost moral philosopher. His pioneering work on IQ's has changed the way we think about intelligence.

Alison Lewin has found her calling in a deprived community in a remote part of Zimbabwe.

Political satire, this week The Black Caps.

The media burst the bubble after Olympic setbacks; who is broadcasting what - and from where?; another ignored embargo; will the public pay for new journalism in New Zealand?

Judith Kelley the author of a book which analyses election monitoring has asked some pretty hard questions about what works and what doesn't.

Johnny Blades goes to PNG to explore whether the elections will help the nation recover from a year of poltical conflict.

Between 1960 and 1990, strong winds of political change swept across Pacific countries. Broadcaster Ian Johnstone has captured this change in a series of interviews with Pacific leaders which he presents with his co-editor Michael Powles in a series called New Flags Flying. Sunday Morning features highlights from the series during 2012. This time Ian, Michael and Chris discuss Kiribati and Tuvalu with special guest, former Prime Minister and Governor General of Tuvalu, Sir Tomasi Puapua.

Fairfax NZ reporter Tony Smith is in London covering his fourth Olympic Games.