Sunday, October 12, 2014

Australian Public in Mourning as 'The Block' Shatters Every Single Dream

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SYDNEY - Last night, millions of Australians sat in their lounge rooms with ugly crying faces


This morning, news sites across the country were flooded with stories: 'THE BLOCK SHOCK,' they screamed. Fingers were pointed, heads were dropped. Could our favourite reality show really end like this?


The Block , an Australian renovation television show, which follows five teams of two as they each design an apartment in Melbourne over the course of 10 weeks, came to a screaming, wailing halt



The apartments get auctioned off at the end of the series and the winner is awarded a bank balance increase in line with the profit made over the reserve price. The issue on Sunday night: Two of the apartments only earned a profit of $10,000. That's right, two couples went through ten weeks of hard labour for less than Australia's minimum wage. Read more...


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from MashableJenni Ryall
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