Thursday, 10 June 2021, 6:08 pm
Voting is now open for the Access Alliance 2021
People’s Choice Accessible Business Awards, with 24
finalists across eight essential ‘areas of life’ that
all New Zealanders have the right to fully participate
in.
Votes
for the Awards, sponsored by Cookie Time Charitable Trust
and Blind Low Vision NZ, must be in by this Sunday 13 June,
with winners to be announced Tuesday 15 June. There are
three finalists in each of the eight ‘areas of life’
award categories, which cover all aspects of society:
education; built environment including public transport;
social inclusion and leisure; employment; goods and
services; tourism and hospitality; digital spaces; and
PROVIDENCE – A record number of voters, many of them casting ballots by mail, turned out for the 2020 General Election. Spurred by a new, pandemic-inspired system that opened up