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From Jami-Lee Ross to Mill Rd: This is how the NZ Upgrade Programme came together, and then came apart.

The search is on for the best examples of rural villages harnessing the power of tourism to provide opportunity and safeguard their communities, local...

What you need to know Apple's UK iPhone Upgrade Program requires someone visit an Apple Store to sign a loan agreement with Barclays. Some disabled people are unable to make that visit, preventing them from signing up. The situation is now being investigated. The UK's Financial Ombudsman is looking into whether Apple or finance partner Barclays are breaking anti-discrimination laws by requiring iPhone Upgrade Program customers to visit an Apple Store to take part. Local laws required companies to take steps to ensure disabled people are not discriminated against and the requirement for an App...

Thomas Coughlan05:00, May 05 2021 STUFF Grant Robertson praises the resilience of the economy during the Covid-19 pandemic in a pre-budget speech on May 4. The timing is unfortunate. Robertson has, albeit in a somewhat more limited capacity, been a Minister of Delivery for a little over a year. In January 2020, he took the lead on the NZ Upgrade Programme, the Government’s $12 billion pre-Covid infrastructure package. More than half of that money, $6.8b, was allocated to transport projects, which the Government has decided it can no longer commit to delivering in the way, shape, and cost...