2008 Awards winners and finalists
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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
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
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