The Wire w/ Nicholas: October 17, 2023

The Tuesday Wire team is joined by Davide Mercadante for Dear Science. The team discusses honesty migration drain, the false probability of coin flips and a new enzyme that fights against viruses and mutations.

Nicholas catches up with the National Party's Dr Shane Reti about the election results, National’s healthcare priorities, the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora (The Māori Health Authority) and their potential coalition partners, the ACT party.

Nicholas also spoke to Dr Carwyn Jones, an expert in Treaty of Waitangi law and legislation about the facts surrounding the legal obligations set out in Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the referendum on Treaty principals that was proposed by the ACT Party. 

Lou spoke to Julie Douglas from the Tertiary Education Union about the state of University funding. 

They also spoke to Ananish Chaudhuri, Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Auckland in regards to the ongoing Google Antitrust lawsuit.

Josh spoke to Timothy Welch about Nationals plan to scrap the clean car rebate scheme.