16 October 2000
Monday, October 16, 2000
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6:23: GENETIC SCREENING:
Sue Mayer the Director of Gene-Watch, talks from Tideswell England about a decision to disallow UK insurance companies from using genetic tests to identify people with hereditary illnesses. The development follows a decision by the independent Government-sponsored Genetic Insurance Committee which ruled that a test for Huntington's disease, a genetic brain illness, is reliable enough for insurance companies to use.
6:37: CAMBODIA PARALYMPIANS:
Chris Minko, an Australian aid volunteer involved in Cambodia, talks about the paralympic team. It includesformer enemies - three Government soldiers and three Royalist soldiers who all have one thing in common - they lost their legs when they stepped on landmines. For donations, please call the National Paralympic Committee on (02) 8113-6733.
6:44: POLITICAL UPDATE:
Fran Kelly updates the political scene in Canberra.
MUSIC STING: "Boardwalk" by Bobby Womack from "Across 110th Street".
6:48: MID-EAST SUMMIT:
Professor Shy Feldman, head of the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies at the University of Tel Aviv and Dr Halil Shikai, Director of the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, talks from Ramallah about today's attempts to revive the peace process at a summit in Egypt.
7:34: KING ISLAND SURF:
Jermey Curtin, organiser of the Red Bull Reef Seekers Tow In Contest, talks about a competition at King Island for a handful of elite big wave riders who are surfing for $85,000 in prize money. They have to serve waves a minimum of 15 feet.
7:40: POLITICAL UPDATE:
Fran Kelly talks with Cheryl Kernot, Shadow Minister for Employment.
7:48: BOWER BIRD:
Cathy Vanextel talks about new scientific research into how male bowerbirds think.
7:55: COLES ARCHIVE:
Fran Awcock, Victoria's state librarian, talks about the acrhives of Coles Myer which date back to 1864 and include everything from financial records, advertising material, shop fittings and even uniforms worn by staff in the now sadly defunct, 'Coles Cafeterias'. On Friday, as a Centenary of Federation gift to the state, the company handed over its archives to Victoria's State Library which will spend the next three years cataloguing the collection.
8:06: PILL CAMERA:
Dr Warwick Selby, director of Endoscopic Services at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital talks about a swallowable pill. Produced by an Israeli company - the imaging capsule can transmit video from inside the body.
8:12: BROKEN CIRCLES:
Anna Haebich, historian and author of "Broken Circles" talks about her five and a half years of research into the legacy of the stolen generation. According to Anna, there WAS no single stolen generation, rather there were many - an endless cycle of family fragmentation, repeated over the 200 years of white settlement.
8:22: BRADSHAW BOOK:
Grahame Walsh has just launched a new book on Australian rock art. He talks about devoting his life to its study for the past 43 years, with the last 23 being specifically focused on the Bradshaw Rock Art of the Kimberleys - a distinctive style of painting dating back about 20,000 years.
MUSIC STING: compilation from Tina Turner's album "Twenty-Four Seven".
8:26: TEE VEE:
Shane Danielson talks with Helen Thomas about the new British cop drama "City Central" on Channel 7.
Publications
Title: Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley
Author : Grahame Walsh
Publisher: Takarakka Nowan and Cass Publications
Title: Broken Circles
Author : Anna Haebrich
Publisher: Freemantle Arts Centre Press

