Aired 01/10/22 - This week on Backchat, you'll be first hearing about the halting of a promised arts hub in Marrickville as Sydney creatives complain of 'trojan horse' gentrification. We'll have exclusive commentary from Tim Levinson - aka Urthboy - about moves to suspend construction of the hub and the situation facing the arts community in inner Sydney. Next, we'll have a chat with NSW Senator for the Greens, David Shoebridge, about his party's recently announced policy to legalise marijuana nationwide. Finally, new research out of Western Sydney Uni suggests that over half of Western Sydney's agricultural land has been sold to development over the last decade. We'll be chatting to Awais Piracha, one of the authors of this research, about what this could mean for our food security now and into the future. 

This episode of Backchat was produced by Timothy Nguyen, Eddy Diamond and Eamonn Snow.

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