One of the advisors on the new local version of The Apprentice has defended taking part in a show linked to former US President Donald Trump.
Trump, who had been well known internationally in the 80s and 90s for his business dealings, found new fame after starring in the original Apprentice which he hosted for 15 seasons, plus seven of the celebrity-centric spinoff. 
TVNZ is bringing back the local iteration 11 years after a one-season attempt, with Mike Pero this time filling the main slot, alongside newly announced advisors Cassie Roma and Justin Tomlinson.
Cassie Roma, who comes to the show from a background in social and digital media and is known as 'The Kindness Warrior', told The Weekend Collective that she despises Donald Trump, and had many "deep conversations" with TVNZ and the production company to clarify that The Apprentice Aotearoa would be different from the flagship series. 
"I was given assurance that the new Apprentice was going to be one built on kindness - it's going to be hard, it's going to be business time, but it would not be with Trump." 
She says that all three advisors believe in kindness and compassion is a key part of any business.
Roma says that the production company kept their word and avoided descending into Trump-style TV. 
"I think the first question I had from the press was 'how are you not like Ivanka Trump?', and I was like 'in every single way except that we are both white women'."
However, she clarified that it is not a 'kumbaya' and people will still be told 'You're Fired' - but says that business can be done without "being an arsehole", and she did not witness one contestant being bullied. 
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Australians are looking forward to the trans-Tasman travel bubble.
The bubble starts at 11.59 tonight, meaning travellers won't have to quarantine when they travel between Australia and New Zealand.
Queensland Tourism Minister Stirling Hinchcliffe told the Weekend Collective Australians are excited about the bubble.
"Huge anticipation. People are really looking forward to seeing our Kiwi friends and family come back."
He says the state has a lot of tourism spots for Kiwis.
"There's so many Kiwis who would normally want to travel the world and look at fantastic locations across the globe, and in Queensland, we have it all."
Meanwhile, Australia's Prime Minister has hinted international travel may resume in the second half of this year for vaccinated Aussies under essential purposes.
Scott Morrison says it will depend on home quarantine being a success.
"If that works, then that means you've freed up your hotel quarantine, and that means essential workers can start to come in.
"Potentially we can do more with other populations in a very controlled and very safe way, but the idea that one day everything is going to open, that's not how this is going to happen."
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Australians are looking forward to the trans-Tasman travel bubble.
The bubble starts at 11.59 tonight, meaning travellers won't have to quarantine when they travel between Australia and New Zealand.
Queensland Tourism Minister Stirling Hinchcliffe told the Weekend Collective Australians are excited about the bubble.
"Huge anticipation. People are really looking forward to seeing our Kiwi friends and family come back."
He says the state has a lot of tourism spots for Kiwis.
"There's so many Kiwis who would normally want to travel the world and look at fantastic locations across the globe, and in Queensland, we have it all."
Meanwhile, Australia's Prime Minister has hinted international travel may resume in the second half of this year for vaccinated Aussies under essential purposes.
Scott Morrison says it will depend on home quarantine being a success.
"If that works, then that means you've freed up your hotel quarantine, and that means essential workers can start to come in.
"Potentially we can do more with other populations in a very controlled and very safe way, but the idea that one day everything is going to open, that's not how this is going to happen."
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Queenstown's mayor predicts an influx of Australian visitors will bring a bumper ski season for the tourist town.
The first quarantine-free flight lands into Queenstown at 2.30pm Monday from Sydney after the trans-Tasman bubble officially opens at 11.59 Sunday night. 
Mayor Jim Boult told the Weekend Collective there's been good bookings in hotels.
"Late April, May, early June are usually the quietest months of the year for us. We think we'll have a pretty good time over that time, but we're seriously excited about the ski season."
He believes young Aussies could provide some of the staffing shortfall this ski season, with many hotels and hospitality businesses scrambling to find staff now that the tourists are returning.
Boult says 5,500 migrant workers were a big part of the workforce before the borders closed.
"We think around 2,000 of them have left the district, that has left a big hole.
"But we're trying to attract young Aussie across to work in the ski season."
He says worker accommodation won't be an issue this year.
Air New Zealand is running 30 flights across the Tasman - carrying more than 5,000 people. 
Qantas has scheduled 25 flights, and there are four from Jetstar.
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Parenting Expert from the Parenting Place and host of Real Life on Newstalk ZB John Cowan joined The Weekend Collective to share his advice on all things parenting.
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The delayed Tokyo Olympics are to open in just over three months on July 23.
Fans from abroad have already been banned, and now even Japanese spectators could be kept away.
TVNZ Sunday journalist Mark Crysell joined The Panel on The Weekend Collective to discuss this, along with more issues making news this week.
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"Since coming to power in 2017 the Labour has been at war with landlords. Yes, I know that statement will offend some – and others will claim that it’s an exaggeration – but it isn’t."
Ashley Church is a property expert for One Roof. He joined The One Roof Radio Show on The Weekend Collective to share his thoughts on the issue, which you can read in his comment piece on One Roof here.
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An Auckland University vaccinologist is concerned about the speed at which people here are being vaccinated.
Many have accused the government of a lack of transparency regarding the number of people who have had shots.
It comes amid reports that a new Covid-19 vaccination clinic in Ōtara, South Auckland, could be vaccinating five times the number of people that are booked in.
South Seas vaccination clinic, in the old Manukau Institute tech building, was on its second day of operation today working through people in group one and two due to get their Covid-19 jab.
Today, there were just 100 people booked, with the possibility of a few walk-ins booked by a GP or a non-government organisation.
It meant the clinic was vaccinating only 20 per cent of the people it could be.
It has led to National and other voices declaring the rollout is moving too slowly - but vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris told the Weekend Collective it's difficult to find vaccination numbers to see exactly where we are. 
"There's no dashboard for that as this point. Unlike when we always knew every day how many cases we had, we don't have that count of information flowing yet." 
She says that it was always going to be something that would need to ramp up - but the questions is are we where we'd like to be at this point. 
Dr Petousis-Harris says that the number of jabs every day does seem to be going up, but there is the feeling that we are behind where we should be. 
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