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Plain English Champion — Best Organisation

Winner: New Zealand Trade and Enterprise

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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

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Plain English Champion — Best Individual

Winner: Deborah Morris — Barnardos New Zealand

Finalist: Beverley Stevens — nzfishing.com

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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

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Best Plain English Document — Private Sector

Winner: ASB — Kiwisaver: It all stacks up

Finalist: A J Park — Client charter

Finalist: Deloitte — Hello from consulting

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Best Plain English Website — Public / NGO Sector

Winner: Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Finalist: Department of Conservation

Finalist: Northland Regional Council

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Best Plain English Website — Private Sector

Winner: Seafood Industry Training Organisation

Finalist: David Flaws Employment Advocate

Finalist: RaboPlus

Finalist: BRANZ Limited (Honourable Mention)

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Best Sentence Transformation

Winner: Steelbro New Zealand Limited

Finalist: MAF Biosecurity New Zealand

Finalist: Palmerston North City Library

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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

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People’s Choice — Best Plain English Website

Winner: Land Transport New Zealand

Finalist: Metlink

Finalist: Child, Youth and Family

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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

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People’s Choice — ‘Brainstrain’ Website

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

Finalist: ACC

Finalist: Qantas