Breakfast

6:23: MARINE DISTANCE:
Geoff Ross is a wildlife officer for the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. He talks from Sydney about rules and regulations that restricts how close humans, aircraft and seacraft can come to whales and other sealife.

6:37: ENVIRO TAXES:
Clive Hamilton, executive director of the Australian Conservation Foundation, talks about the ACF releasing a report on environmental tax reform.

MUSIC STING: "Sonny Came Home" by Shawn Colvin from "A Few Small Repairs".

6:44: OK RULES:
Jennifer Elliott, is a researcher at the Australian National University's School of Language Studies. She talks about a paper she's delivering on the different pronounciations of "OK" - to determine how useful the findings might be in forensic investigations.

6:48: US RECOUNT DEADLINE:
Ben Wilcox, executive director of Common Cause Florida, an advocate for government reform talks from Tallahassee about the federal election.

MUSIC STING: "Hard Times" by the Cruel Sea from Hard Times.

7:34: POLITICAL UPDATE:
Michelle Grattan, cheif political correspondent with the Sydney morning Herald up-dates the political scene from Canberra.

7:38: INDIGI EDUCATION:
Bill Wilson, President of the Federation of Independent Aboriginal Education Providers and deputy principle at Tauondi College, in Adelaide talks about the literacy and numeracy levels for indigenous students being well below the average for non-indigenous children.

7:45: NEWCASTLE FRAGMENT:
John de Gravio, a senior archivist of the special collections unit at Newcastle University, talks about a manuscript inscribed in Latin, dating from around the 13th century - and containing the writings of one of that period's most influential theologians. The piece of vellum - or fine leather - is just one page of a four-volume spiritual text by Peter Lombard.

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

7:54: SCONE CLOSE:
Graham Quint, the acting conservation director for the NSW branch of National Trust Australia, talks about the Civic Theatre at Scone in the NSW Hunter Valley. The art deco cinema - built in 1938 - has been struggling, since a new big competitor was built in nearby Singleton. Its' closure will mark the end of an era in the State's cinema industry - and that's prompted the National Trust to call on film distributors to give small theatres like the Civic a break.

8:06: FLORIDA UPDATE:
Michael Martinez, associate professor in political science at Florida University talks from gainsville about the controversy surrounding the deadline for vote counting in the US elections.

8:12: WEATHER WARN:
Nan Bray, chief of Marine Research with Australia's CSIRO talks about scientists and government officials from around the Indian Ocean Basin meeting in Perth this week, to consider an early warning system for extreme climatic events.

8:17: DNA COLLECTION:
Dennis Eggington, chief executive of the Aboriginal Legal Service, talks from Perth about a recent murder investigation in which local police collected DNA samples from people NOT matching the profile of the suspect.

8:26: NEW MUSIK:
Tim Ritchie talks with Helen Thomas about "Little White Dove" by Jess Klein from the album "Draw Them Near". Distributed locally by Mushroom.