Weekend Wrap 25 June 2023: Putins Wagner moment, Labor housing policy on Insiders and why working people are not so sympathetic to the Zuckerberg, Musk, Oceangate sagas

Ben Davison takes a look at the big stories coming out of Russia,
the Musk/Zuckerberg cage match and the Oceangate tragedy and
draws together the threads of how these sagas, created and caused
by billionaires, usually involve the suffering and or
exploitation of working people. And that maybe that's why there's
a level of skepticism towards them.


Ben also discusses the passing of the referendum bill, the
decision by Lidia Thorpe to support the NO case and breaks down
the three different, equally bad, arguments for voting NO. 
Remembering that a referendum is a binary choice and that only a
YES vote moves reconciliation forward.


Julie Collins, Minister for Housing, was on Insiders and she tore
apart the Greens political party's position on housing. 
Revealing that the delay to the Housing Affordability Future Fund
also delayed $200,000,000 in repairs and maintenance on regional
and remote Indigenous housing, that rent freezes REDUCE supply of
housing and that the Commonwealth is working with the states but
cannot legally direct them.


Ben also answers a listeners question about trans rights and
responds to a listener and MUA member from Sydney Ferries. 
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