2008 Award winners and finalists

Click the links for photos and/or media releases from the winners and finalists. If you'd like a high resolution version of a photo, please call Chris on 04 801 2550.

Plain English Champion — Best Organisation

Winner: New Zealand Trade and Enterprise

Plain English Champion — Best Project

Winner: Ministry of Education — Team-Up

Finalist: Retail Institute — Customer service award

Finalist: Ministry for Culture and Heritage — Te Ara: Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Plain English Champion — Best Individual

Winner: Deborah Morris — Barnardos New Zealand

Finalist: Beverley Stevens — nzfishing.com

Best Plain English Document — Public / NGO Sector

Winner: Cancer Society of New Zealand — Talking to a friend with cancer

Finalist: Greater Wellington Regional Council — Our region (March/April 2008)

Finalist: New Zealand Guidelines Group — Atrial fibrillation

Best Plain English Document — Private Sector

Winner: ASB — Kiwisaver: It all stacks up

Finalist: A J Park — Client charter

Finalist: Deloitte — Hello from consulting

top

Best New Zealand Plain English Website — Public / NGO Sector

Winner: Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Finalist: Department of Conservation

Finalist: Northland Regional Council

Best New Zealand Plain English Website — Private Sector

Winner: Seafood Industry Training Organisation

Finalist: David Flaws Employment Advocate

Finalist: RaboPlus

Honourable Mention: BRANZ Limited

Best Sentence Transformation

Winner: Steelbro New Zealand Limited

Finalist: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand

Finalist: Palmerston North City Library

People’s Choice — Best Plain English Document

Winner: Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management — Drop, cover and hold still the best advice

Finalist: Balance New Zealand Bipolar & Depression Network — Someone you care about has a mood disorder

Finalist: Auckland Regional Public Health Service — Cervical screening smear result

top

People’s Choice — Best Plain English Website

Winner: Land Transport New Zealand

Finalist: Metlink

Finalist: Child, Youth and Family

People’s Choice — ‘Brainstrain’ Document

Winner: Pacific Blue — Terms and conditions of carriage

Finalist: Bright Star Conferences — 2nd annual business intelligence summit

Finalist: Ministry of Education — AsTTle: Learning pathways report for test

People’s Choice — ‘Brainstrain’ Website

Winner: Embassy of the United States, Wellington, New Zealand

Finalist: ACC

Finalist: Qantas

top

2011 WriteMark

Monday 12 September 2011

New Zealand Plain English Awards