Breakfast

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

6:19: CROP MAP: Dr Alex Held, leader of the Remote Sensing Group at the CSIRO's Department of Land and Water, talks about the Earth Science New Millenium Satellite, or E0-1 for short, that was launched by NASA on Tuesday afternoon. The CSIRO is one of ten international institutions to participate in the satellite mission and Alex is the leader of the project here. On board the satellite is a new sensor called "Hyperion" that is the latest and greatest device in imaging tehnology that will be used to monitor, among other things, the crops, forests and reefs of Australia.

 
MUSIC STING: "Shuck it Up" by Medeski Martin Wood from the album "It's a Jungle in Here".

6:37: YAHOO BAN: Alan Davidson, staff counsel with the Centre for Democracy and Technology in Maryland, talks about a French court's decision to force US Internet company, Yahoo!, to block French users from their auction sites that advertise Nazi memorabilia.

6:44: POLITICAL UPDATE: Fran Kelly with the latest political news from Canberra.

6:48: GORE'S SUPREME WIN: Charles Jones, Emeritus Professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, talks about the latest from Florida.

MUSIC STNG: "Skin and Teeth" by Joe Henry from the album 'Fuse'.

7:34: POLITICAL UPDATE: Fran Kelly with another political update.

7:37: KIM BEAZLEY: Fran Kelly speaks with Kim Beazley, Federal Opposition Leader.

7:43: DNA TONGA: An Australian bio-tech company, Autogen, has just signed a contract with the Tongan Health Department to set up a genetic data base with the potential to document the DNA of the entire population. We speak to Professor Greg Collier, Autogen's Director

7:48: GOONDIWINDI ROW: Cathy Van Extel reports on Peter Costello's trip to Goondiwindi on the Queensland/NSW border to talk to locals about Government policy.

MUSIC STNG: "Hard Times" by Cruel Sea from the album 'Hard Times'.

7:55: GERARD HENDERSON: Gerard Henderson, director of the Sydney Institute, talks about Australia's new bilateral trade agreement. Prime Minister John Howard has begun negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement with Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister of Singapore.

8:06: FOSSIL FIND: Warren Somerville, resident of Orange in the Central West of NSW, talks about his decision to donate his twelve year old collection of fossils to the Australian Museum. Some of the more exceptional pieces of the collection include the full skeleton of a tyrannosaurus rex, the skull of a sabre-toothed lion and the reamins of 100 million year old reptile birds from China.

8:12: MOZZIE WARNING: Professor Brian Kay, head of the Mosquito Control Laboratory at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, talks about a potential outbreak of insect-borne diseases like Ross River Fever and the rare, but deadly, Murray River Encephalitis due to recent flooding in NSW.

8:17: AIDS CELLS: Jonathon Yewdell, a researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Maryland and co-author of a study for the National Academy of Sciences, talks about their finding that suggests a protein function that's essential for the health of human cells could be responsible for spreading the AIDS virus. In test tubes, they have been able to block the 'proteasomes' and resist the spread of infection by up to 98 per cent.

8:22: NEW HEARTS: Andrew Coulloupas looks at a world first medical procedure in Melbourne. After seven successfull operations, the procedure, which involves wrapping the heart rather than having a heart transplant, was formally announced yesterday.