How will parliament's new housing bills actually help a generation of "forever renters"? We ask the Housing Minister Clare O'Neil. 

Also, 8 hostel employees arrested and backpacker Google reviews deleted: we have the latest on the mass methanol poisoning in Laos. 

Plus, medicinal cannabis sales in Australia are soaring, with about a billion dollars spent on products this year alone. 

Guests: 

• Clare O'Neil, federal housing minister
• Melissa Mackay, reporter, ABC 

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