Breakfast

6:19: SKATING DOG: Darren Munday talks about his dog, Thai, who has been sponsored by a skateboarding company to perform tricks on a skateboard. The four-year-old Staffordshire Terrier cross is Britain's leading skate-boarding dogs and has been doing it since he was a puppy. Last Wednesday, the prized canine was stolen from him.

6:37: JAILHOUSE ROCKS: Lorraine Wearne, Mayor of Parramatta, talks about a redevelopment scheme in the area that will see the old Paramatta gaol turned into a backpackers hostel, colonial museum and retail centre. It is the oldest gaol in Australia and currently houses about 200 prisoners. Use of the facility as 'correctional' will be phased out to make way for the new developments announced by the Carr Government.

6:44: POLITICAL UPDATE: Fran Kelly with the latest political news from the nation's capital.

6:48: CLIMATE FIASCO: Bill Hare, campaign director for Greenpeace, joins us from Amsterdam in the aftermath of greenhouse talks in The Hague. The conference was initially aimed at finding practical measures to enforce the 1997 protocol reached in Kyoto which set targets to reduce greenhouse gases. It has concluded unresolved.

6:55: OLD TASSIE PINE: Peg Putt, Greens MP in the Tasmanian Parliament, talks about the State's National Parks and Wildlife Service plan to allow tourist access to the Huon Pines of Mount Read in Tasmania. The 'stand' of trees are believed to be at least ten thousand years old. Environmental groups are concerned that regular human intervention could destroy the trees.

7:34: SOCCER KIDS: Branco Culina, coach of soccer league leaders Sydney Olympic, talks about raising the profile of the sport in Australia and the problem of keeping Aussie players away from European poachers.

7:37: FRAN KELLY: Fran Kelly talks to Robert Hill, Federal Environment Minister, about another push to have Kakadu listed as endangered as the World Heritage Committee meets in Cairns today.

7:48: BLUEIES LISTED: Roger Beale, secretary of Environment Australia, talks to us as the powerful, twenty-one nation World Heritage Committee meets in Cairns this week. One million hectares of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales is currently being considered for a World Heritage Listing.

7:55: ROBERT STUMBLES: Three months after his release from gaol, and with a new career up and running, Robert Downey Jr has been arrested again. He was arrested in a Palm Springs hotel room for drug posession, being under the influence of a controlled substance and committing a felony while free on bail. Beth Laski, executive editor of film for the Hollywood Reporter, joins us to talk about the case.

8:06: JUMPIN' CRAYS: Mike Hosking, acting manager of fisheries in northern Victoria, talks about thousands of crustaceans that have crawled out of the Murray River and climbed trees in the Barmah State Forest in a rarely-observed flight for survival.

8:12: QLD IMPACT: Cathy Van Extel explores the electoral rorts scandal that is plaguing the Queensland Government and Premier Peter Beattie.

8:17: ORGAN GIVERS: Rosanna Capolingua-Host, executive member of both the Federal and Western Australian branch of the Australian Medical Association, talks about new reccommendations in Perth's State Parliamentary Report on Organ Donation and Transplantation that people are presumed to have given consent to donate organs unless they specifically 'opt out' by not ticking the donor box on their driver's license or Medicare card.

8:26: TEE VEE: Shane Danielson talks to Helen Thomas about the new US TV series, "The West Wing".