Breakfast

MUSIC STING: from Ben Harper's album "Burn to Shine".

6:37: FED PAVILION:
Peter Woods, the mayor of Concord, talks from Nowra on the NSW south coast about the swearing in of our country's first Prime Minister in Sydney's Centennial Park. Photographs of the day show the ceremony being conducted under an ornate plaster structure, purpose-built for the occasion - before 25,000 people. Not long after the first Parliament sat, that Federation Pavillion was lost to history, but now it's been rediscovered.

MUSIC STING: from Tina Turner's album "Twenty Four Seven".

6:44: ADELAIDE DINO:
Andrew Coulloupas talks with Dr Roger Seymour about a group of dinosaurs known as sauropods - long-necked animals that weighed in up to 100 tonnes and roamed the earth about 200-million years ago. He says they actually held their necks Horizontally.

6:48: IVORY UNREST:
Dr Manelisi Genge, acting-director of research at the Africa Institute of South Africa, talks about the military turmoil in the Ivory Coast. Rival military factions and Opposition supporters are clashing in the capital Abidjan, over botched Presidential elections.

7:34: MURDER BALL:
Tim Latham went to the Paralympic event of wheelchair rugby. Before capacity crowds yesterday, the game made its' Olympic debut.

MUSIC STING: "Kosciusko" by Midnight Oil from "Red Sails in the Sunset".

7:39: POLITICAL UPDATE:
Michelle Grattan, chief political correspondent with the Sydney Morning Herald updates the political scene from Canberra.

7:44: VIC MAGISTRATE:
Andrew Coulloupas talks about the future of Michael Adams QC - Victoria's Chief Magistrate - possibly being determined by the State's Supreme Court. The first step has been taken in a complaints process that's unprecedented in Victoria's legal history.

7:50: LOCH NESS SEARCH:
Jan Sunberg, a Swedish hunter has spent 25 years exploring lakes around the world looking for the mythical creature believed to live deep in the waters of the Loch Ness Lake. Equipped with an ultra-sophisticated microphone designed to detect Soviet nulcear subs, the team's attempting to locate the famous creature through sound rather pictures. He believes the noise from 'Lochie' could prove much more accurate her than photos - which can be easily forged.

7:55: GERARD HENDERSON:
The director of the Sydney Institute talks from the Sydney studio about former Governor-General Bill Hayden's speech at the University of Tasmania which criticised the change of East Timor policy undertaken by the Howard Government in 1999. Mr Hayden believes the policy shift has given the East Timorese a "desolation" disguised as "freedom".

8:06: MID-EAST UPDATE:
Judith Kipper, director of the Middle East studies programme at the Centre for Stategic and International Studies, talks from Washington about renewed hopes for peace in the Middle East. If negotiations are to be effective, both sides will have to start looking at new ways to reach a compromise.

8:14: ROGUE PLAGUES:
Dr Richard Mack, biologist at Washington State University, talks about Australia's isolation resulting in it becoming a "hot-spot" for exotic species. He also talks about why some species become probelmatic and others don't.

8:20: MAORI TREE DOWN:
Mayor of Auckland, Christine Fletcher, talks about the felling of the lone monterey pine on One Tree Hill - Auckland's most famous landmark. After two attacks, the tree is dying and has to come down.

MUSIC STING: "Skin and Teeth" by Joe Henry from "Fuse".

8:25: IN-PRINT:
James Reyne talks with Helen Thomas about "Dish" by Jeanette Walls.

Publications

Title: Dish
Author : Jeanette Walls
Publisher: Harper Collins

Title: Dish
Author : Jeanette Walls
Publisher: Harper Collins