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Simon and the head of AUT talk about how students prepare for an ever-changing work environment 

Business Is Boring #30 – AUT Vice-Chancellor Derek McCormack on the changing nature of work and education

Our resident Blockaholic Jane Yee recaps the highs and lows from week seven of The Block NZ, including the return of everyone's favourite council inspector Glyn, more tradie tantrums than you can shake a broken old bit of gib at, and a steamy bedroom tryst.

Jane Yee on The Block: Love and loathing in Meadowbank

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Madeleine Chapman, her Aunty Henga and her Mum Pani assess the skills, builds, and tattoos in Game of Bros, Māori television's reality quest for the ultimate Polynesian warrior.

‘Wait, are they in Auckland?’ – Judging the uso of Game of Bros with Aunty Henga, Week Three

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Madeleine Chapman, her Aunty Henga and her Mum Pani assess the skills, builds, and tattoos in Game of Bros, a reality quest for the ultimate Polynesian warrior.

“Who’s mowing the lawn?” – Judging the uso of Game of Bros with Aunty Henga, Week Two

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Alex Casey recaps the second episode of Better Call Saul season two on Lightbox, featuring a piano, nacho cravings and an unspeakable act with an apple pie.

“You still morally flexible?” – Recapping Better Call Saul’s ‘Cobbler’

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How did TV news cover the anti-TPP protests? José Barbosa has a real good look and comes away bleeding from the eyes.

Video – The Spinoff watches news coverage of the TPP protests and is sorely disappointed

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John Key was once just another electorate MP, wading through constituents' sewage. We look back at his time on the magical local docu-drama Neighbours at War, and get a comment from the PM himself.

Television: Throwback Thursday – John Key Gets Called a Racist on Neighbours at War

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"What the f*** is Drew doing dropping off his one-night stand at a horse stable? Is the Auckland housing market THAT bad?"

Television: Shortland Street Power Rankings – Doctor Drew Goes Hoarse With Bad Puns

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"Ed Sheeran walks along the beach, the palest man to ever be seen not only in Summer Bay, but all of Australia. Luckily, he's wrapped up from head to toe in black clothing just to fit in"

Recap: Ed Sheeran Gets Washed Up on Home and Away’s Summer Bay

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Bringing together the TV moments on the week, including Masterchef shockers, Sunday night monsters and Ed Sheeran at the beach. Contributions by Alex Casey and Calum Henderson.

The Spinoff’s TV Week: Brave Blockheads, Kitchen Quitters and Sunkissed Sheeran

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"A muffled but familiar voice begins addressing the crowd. It’s none other than Dominic Bowden, an actual wedding celebrant who has done 'about 25' weddings."

Television: A Match Made in Survey Heaven – Watching The Edge Wedding

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"Her stress levels have reduced and (gasp!) even her lower back pain has eased. God bless that magical turd stone." – Alex Casey follows week three of Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty.

Recap: Rachel Hunter’s Tour of Beauty, Week Three – Borrowing Art Green’s Face Mask

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"White has been crafting his telly persona for years, making cooks shake and cry and shout 'YES MARCO' and accept treatment unfit for prisoners of war - just because he's good at making dinner."

Recap: Masterchef NZ, Week Seven – Deconstructing the Onscreen Villainy of Marco Pierre White

"Ben Mitchell proves that having a bung arm only enhances a powerful actor. In fact, his performance is on par with Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot. Just with one right thumb." 

Recap: Shortland Street Power Rankings – TK’s Right Thumb Hitchhikes a Ride Into the Spotlight

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"You’d think they were giving tips on using voice commands to control a dysfunctional Furby, not ways to communicate with another equal adult human." 

Recap: The Men’s Panel on Good Morning Tackle Grumpy Women Once and For All

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"Full of questions, she heads to a plastic surgeon to get her supermodel appearance ripped to shreds by an old man wearing a surgical cap covered in jovial peace signs."

Recap: Rachel Hunter’s Tour of Beauty, Week Two – Rachel Mends Her Feverish Heart

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"Yeah, you could put a crumb on it, Hayley. It's Masterchef NZ, there's only one rule: when in doubt, add a crumb. Don't think too hard; just crisp something up, sprinkle it on top, and say it's for 'textural contrast'"

Recap: Masterchef, Week Six – From an Ugly Baby Bird to a Beautiful Cream Puff Swan

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"Sometimes I got really worried that, through some freak natural disaster, all of mankind is destroyed and all that remains of our existence are radio broadcasts from survey week"

A Week of It: Abseiling, Cow Milking and Chip Chomping Through a Week of The Ladies of ZM

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Alex Casey recaps episode one of Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty, and unlocks the secrets of the French including skunk perfume and wine-based massages. 

Recap: Rachel Hunter’s Tour of Beauty – A Skunk By Any Other Name Would Still Smell As Sweet

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"If you want to fit in on Days of Our Lives, just chuck on a funky Ezibuy tunic and pour yourself a vino mate." – Alex Casey watches a week of the baffling soap.

A Week of It: Getting Horribly Lost Through the Hourglass – A Week of Days of Our Lives

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Never mind the scoreboard – in the 2000 Bledisloe Cup decider, the real trans-Tasman battle was won before kickoff.

Remembering the great TrueBliss vs Bardot national anthem sing-off

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I'm on the wrong side of 40, I never pursued creative work and now my job is killing my soul. Help!

Help Me Hera: Do I even want the public sector job I might be about to lose?

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For all its virtues, Anzac Day – unlike its cousin Armistice Day – is a commemoration of war, not peace.

Seize the day

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Australian and New Zealand volunteers fought together in the Waikato War, yet still its place in the Anzac tradition is unacknowledged by our defence forces or RSA.

The first, forgotten Anzacs, more than 50 years before Gallipoli

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Poem for Anzac Day: ‘Hoki Mai’ by Tayi Tibble

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A poem from Bill Manhire's 2017 book of verse Some Things to Place in a Coffin.

Poem for Anzac Day: ‘My World War I Poem’ by Bill Manhire

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The best-selling American writer on the ideal conditions for reading, the true meaning of utopia and more.

‘Emily Dickinson made me into a writer’: Lauren Groff on the power of reading

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An early and strong contender for book of the year. 

Page-turning rural gothic: Ash by Louise Wallace, reviewed

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'I just remember seeing them live for the first time and thinking to myself: This is it. This is the reason. This is what life is all about.'

‘It was my Eras tour’: Meet the world’s biggest TrueBliss fans

 is jam-packed with equally sexy and hilarious moments from Ferndale. Harry outdoes himself on the insult front by tell a small defenceless child that he has a lead role in

. Garret and Kylie handcuff themselves to the bed in some sort of 

 mash-up. Dayna tells a tear-jerking tale of how to lose friends and ruin a lovely plate of pork chops. Evan straddles the line between wanting to be a father and laughing raucously at the word “midwifery” for one hundred years.

Coincidentally and unfortunately, Evan also gets dumped.

 on TV2 tonight at 7pm to see what on earth could possibly happen next.

Watching Shortland Street on TVNZ Ondemand here

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Shorty Street Scandal Episode 15: Pork Chops in the Pool

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