Breakfast

6:23: BLUE BLOOD ELEX:
Michel Panayotov talks with Harold Brooks-Baker, publishing director of Burke's Peerage from in London. According to Britain's 'blueblood bible' - Burke's Peerage - it's the Royal blood that flows through George W Bush's veins that's going to make him the 43rd US President.

MUSIC STING: "Space Agent" by Zeb from the album Tripnotic.

6:37: MELBOURNE'S WIN:
Scott Wales investigates the status of Melbourne as the country's racing capital.

6:44: SUBZERO RULES:
Andrew Coulloupas talks about past Melbourne Cup winner Subzero and his jockey.

MUSIC STING: "Winter Solstice" by The Tea Party from the album "Splendor Solis".

6:48: SLAVERY COMPO:
Alexander Pires is one of the lawyers forming part of the Reperations Assessment group which won a historic $2 billion settlement for black farmers, which grants compensation for families still reeling from 244 years of legalised slaver. He talks about how a 'dollar value' can be levied, for the effects of decades of segregation.

7:34: POLITICAL UPDATE:
Michelle Grattan, chief political correspondent with the Sydney Morning HErald updates the political scene from Canberra and talks with Tony Eggleton, Chief Executive Officer of the Centenary of Federation.

7:43: CUP WRAP:
Helen Thomas talks with Max Presnell, the Sydney Morning Herald's Racing Editor who gives a wrap of yesterday's cup at Flemington.

7:48: BANJO'S LOO:
Cathy Van Extel talks about proposals in the central western town of Orange for a toilet block to commemorate AB Patterson's roots in the area.

7:55: QLD SHIP REFLOAT:
John Watkinson, Response Team Commander and Executive director of the Maratime division of Queensland Transport talks from Brisbane about attempts to refloat the grounded Malaysian vessel currently stuck on the Great Barrier Reef.

8:06: OZ ECONOMY:
Craig James, Chief Economist for Commonwealth Securities, talks about the importance of the economy in the US Presidential election.

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

8:12: POLITICAL INTERVIEW:
Harry Evans, current clerk of the senate and author of "the Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate" talks about the volume which deals with the lives and decisions of our original Senators and the first three decades of the Australian Senate itself.

8:17: VRC WHITELINE:
Annette Sheill, director of Melbourne's Racing Museum at Caufield talks about an exhibition which remembers the white line - the painted barrier that barred women in the Members Area at Flemington Racecourse from mingling with men.

NEW MUSIK:
"Behind the Eight-Ball" by Olivia Bartley from her album "Trace Me".