This week on The Wire...

For Dear Science this week, we chatted to Professor Allan Blackman about plants not holding as much carbon as previously thought, low pressure making tea taste worse, and a giant millipede that was thought to be extinct. 

In our weekly catchup with the National Party, Wire host Castor spoke to MP Katie Nimon about the abuse in state care inquiry and the government’s recent instructions to Pharmac. 

He also talked to Associate Professor of Politics and International relations, Stephen Noakes, about New Zealand’s relationship with China. 

And he spoke to Professor Janet Hoek from the University of Otago about the implications of reducing the excise tax on Heated Tobacco Products. 

And producer Josef spoke to Professor Emeritus Ralph Sims about the newly released draft of the second emissions reduction plan.