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Plain English Champion — Best Organisation

Winner: Deloitte

Finalist: ANZ

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Plain English Champion — Best Individual or Team

Winner: Ministry of Social Development — Sarah Moodie

Finalist: Inland Revenue — Lindsay Botham

Finalist: StudyLink — StudyLink Service Support Team

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Best Plain English Document — Public Sector / Non-Government Organisation (NGO)

Winner: The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand — Get Ahead Skills: My Planning My Preparation: Workbook

Finalist: NZ On Air — Statement of Intent 2014–2018

Finalist: Commerce Commission — Know your rights as a consumer brochure

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Best Plain English Document — Private Sector

Winner: Skills Active Aotearoa — Information Sheets

Finalist: Mercer (NZ) Limited — Annual Member Benefit Statement

Finalist: Woods Creative Limited — PowerSmart DLE brochure and owner’s manual

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Best Plain English Website — Public Sector / Non-Government Organisation (NGO)

Winner: Careers New Zealand — www.careers.govt.nz

Finalist: Commerce Commission — construction.comcom.govt.nz

Finalist: Ministry of Education — www.parents.education.govt.nz

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Best Plain English Website — Private Sector

Winner: Woods Creative Limited — www.powersmartsolar.co.nz

Finalist: WooHoo NZ Tax Refunds — www.nztaxrefunds.co.nz

Finalist: Mercer (NZ) Limited — www.mercerkiwisaverscheme.co.nz

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Best Plain English Sentence Transformation

Winner: Lesley Hanes, Statistics New Zealand

Finalist: Ros Black, Xero

Finalist: Nathan Wall, Internal Affairs

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Best Plain English Technical Communicator

Winner: Janet Green, Risk and Assurance team, Ministry of Social Development

Finalist: Kylie McGrath, Xero

Finalist: Laura Southgate and Ros Black, Xero

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Best Plain English Annual Report

Winner: Mercer (NZ) Limited — Annual Report

Finalist: Finalist: Beef + Lamb New Zealand — Annual Report 2012–2013

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Best Plain English Turnaround

Winner: Medical Assurance Society — MAS House and Contents Insurance

Finalist: MAS — MAS Motor Vehicle Insurance

Finalist: Spark New Zealand — Call Minder

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People's Choice — Best Plain English Communication

Winner: Legal Beagle — www.legalbeagle.co.nz

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People's Choice — Worst 'Brainstrain' Communication

Winner: Air New Zealand — Important Notices

Finalist: Earthquake Commission — Email about a simple repair job that hadn’t been sorted after 3 years (and 3 months)