RNZ: Sunday Morning

Sandra Janoff, consultant and psychologist, works with Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, communities and not-for-profit organisations. She is in New Zealand for the Fish In Future Search national meeting in Nelson.

Today New Zealand First is in serious damage control after Richard Prosser suggests banning 'Wogistanis' from flying on Western airlines.

In the latest in our occasional series of interviews with influential New Zealanders talking about their lives and influences we hear from serial entrepreneur Melissa Clark-Reynolds.

Celebrated French archeologist and cave art specialist.

One MP's controversial comments - outrageous outburst or journalists' joke?; broadcasters band together to create a brand new watchdog; plug pulled on TV awards and are startling stories about wild weather misleading us?

Benny Wenda is a West Papua independence leader, Secretary General of Demmak (The Koteka Tribal Assembly), and founder of the Free West Papua Campaign.

Lois Williams explores the authority over water that is at the centre of Maori water claims.

The Mediawatch team runs through listeners' queries and comments and updates recent stories from the programme. There are responses to the coverage of the death of Sir Paul Holmes; reaction to reports of Gareth Morgan's cat campaign; the rocky start for Seven Sharp; anger over Igloo; Aussie papers outsourced here; Dick Smith's latest patriotic provocation; a green light for 'Beast of Blenheim', time to reclaim the Nerd?

What the listeners have to say on today's programme.

Today, Japan and China both lay claim to the supposedly oil-rich Sekaku Islands, and tensions are ratcheted up between the two Asian heavyweights. Wayne looks at the background to the dispute and its wider regional ramifications. Chris follows up with Bruce Jacobs, Professor of Asian Studies and Languages and Melbourne's Monash University.

As Iran celebrates 33 years since the Islamic revolution, that country's ambassador to New Zealand, Seyed Majid Tafreshi Khameneh, talks to Chris about international hostility towards Iran, progress despite years of sanctions, and how Iran deals with the world in its foreign policy.

If the Maori Party is to move forward and retain it's membership base it has to modernise - it might be that it needs some new, younger faces in the leadership.

Ideas talks to Marion Shoard, author of This Land is Your Land and The Right to Roam, about public access to land and waterways in Britain and Scandinavia; Mark Neeson of the Walking Access Commission; and high country farmer Sue Aspinall.

Jacqueline Rowarth is Professor of Agribusiness at the University of Waikato. She says the controversy over the use of the chemical DCD in the dairy industry has been overblown and could have been better handled. Professor Rowarth says other projects are underway to do similar tasks as DCD to mitigate environmental damage â€" but one of the biggest problems in New Zealand is that new technology is developed which farmers are not allowed to use because of concerns about chemicals.

Blunt assessments of Seven Sharp; Maori TV's new news boss; a voicemail gone viral makes national news; how PR people misread the Novopay nightmare; can new ways of backing US journalism work here?