Friday 7:50 Miracle landing on Norfolk Island

Anyone who has flown in to Norfolk Island will know that it can be tricky business at the best of times, with bad weather often hampering landings on the small island's only airport. On Wednesday night, a heavy cloud stopped Captain Dominic James from landing his Air Ambulance on Norfolk Island, en route from Samoa to Melbourne. Not only did Captain James manage to land his plane in the rough seas in darkness, but he also got all five passengers, including a seriously ill Australian woman, out of the aircraft moments before it sank. They then waited in shark-infested waters for a fishing boat to rescue them.

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Friday 7:36 Michelle Grattan

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Friday 7:55 Krishna and Trishna recover from operation in Melbourne

Conjoined twins Krishna and Trishna are recovering from their marathon operation at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital, with brain scans revealing an exceptionally good result. Professor Tony Holmes is a veteran maxillofacial surgeon, who played a vital part in the operation. He says that this is one of his proudest moments in all his years working at the Royal Children's.

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Friday 8:05 David Crawford: funding Australian sports

There's been a storm of emotion and debate since David Crawford released his much anticipated report on Australian sport this week. The report deals with many aspects of sport, from the role it should play in education to the way it should be administered by government bodies and community organisations. But almost all the talk has been about the report's ideas for changing funding priorities. The Australian Olympic Committee says if the recommendations are followed, Australia will slide further down the medals tally at the London Olympics. The head of the AOC went so far as to label the report 'un-Australian'.

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Friday 6:20 Schoolies week begins tomorrow

In the 1970s a group of school leavers headed to the Gold Coast for two weeks of celebration, marking the end of their school days. More than 35 years later, the annual schoolies period has turned into a teen pilgrimage, with over 75,000 students expected at schoolies locations around the country this year. The event, which officially begins tomorrow, has been plagued in recent years by arrests and street violence, especially on the Gold Coast, the biggest schoolies destination of all.

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Friday 8:18 Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris

By the standards of the early 20th century, Rupert Bunny was arguably Australia's most successful expatriate painter. He lived for almost 50 years in Paris, achieving a level of critical acclaim no Australian artist had yet enjoyed. This weekend a major exhibition of his work opens at the Art Gallery of NSW, showing more than 100 of his most significant paintings. The exhibition will continue until February 21, before moving to Melbourne and Adelaide.

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Friday 7:31 Sport with Warwick Hadfield

The latest sports news with Warwick Hadfield.

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Friday 7:41 Eric Abetz: ETS debates continue in the Senate

Nick Minchin gave a rallying speech in parliament yesterday against the government's proposed ETS legislation, with 17 coalition senators on hand in support. Senator Eric Abetz was one of them.

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Friday 7:10 AM with Tony Eastley

The ABC's daily morning current affairs program hosted by Tony Eastley.

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Friday 6:27 Papers: James Carleton

What's in the newspapers? James Carleton's daily wrap of the print media.

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