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Plain English Champion — Best Organisation

Winner: Castalia Strategic Advisors

Finalist: ANZ

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Plain English Champion — Best Individual or Team

Winner: Careers New Zealand — Online Content team

Finalist: ANZ — Cushla Scholfield

Finalist: ANZ — Wealth team

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Plain English Champion — Best Project

Winner: Ministry of Social Development

Finalist: ANZ

Finalist: Mercer

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

Winner: Commerce Commission — Borrowing money or buying goods on credit: Know your rights

Finalist: Inland Revenue — Our Organisation 2015–2017

Finalist: Ministry of Social Development — Protect Your Future with an Enduring Power of Attorney

Finalist: Quitline — Quit smoking resource for pregnant women

Finalist: Wellington City Council — Get prepared for an emergency

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Best Plain English Document — Private Sector

Winner: Beef + Lamb — 2015 Sheepmeat and Beef Levy Referendum, levy proposal, pocket guide and team guide

Finalist: ANZ — Home Loan Agreement

Finalist: ANZ Investments — KiwiSaver Scheme Investment Statement

Finalist: Moneta Media — Juno (Spring 2015)

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

Winner: Govt.nz/Department of Internal Affairs — www.govt.nz

Finalist: Inland Revenue — www.ird.govt.nz/property

Finalist: The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment — www.tenancy.govt.nz

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Best Plain English Website — Private Sector

Winner: Woods the Creative Agency — www.enzedexotics.com

Finalist: ANZ — ANZ Financial Hardship Microsite

Finalist: St Mary’s Early Childhood Education Centre — www.stmaryschildcare.org.nz

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Best Plain English Sentence Transformation

Winner: Erinna Gilkison, Statistics NZ

Finalist: Cushla Schofield, ANZ

Finalist: Julie Hutton, Saunders Robinson Brown

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Best Plain English Technical Communicator

Winner: Meredith Evans, Synlait Milk

Finalist: Sarah Wilcox, Descipher

Finalist: Emma Adcock, OSPRI

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Best Plain English Annual Report

Winner: Mercer — 2015 Mercer KiwiSaver Scheme Annual Report

Finalist: ANZ Investments — ANZ KiwiSaver Scheme Annual Report

Finalist: Watercare Services Limited — Watercare Annual Report 2014

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Best Plain English Legal Document

Winner: OnePath Life (NZ) Limited — ANZ Life and Living Insurance — Policy Document

Finalist: ANZ — Home Loan Agreement

Finalist: ANZ — ANZ Guarantee

Finalist: TVNZ — House Rules

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Best Plain English Turnaround

Winner: OSPRI — Preparing for TB testing

Finalist: OSPRI — Can’t contact letter

Finalist: OSPRI — NAIT tutorial video — registering animals

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People's Choice — Best Plain English Communication

Winner: Westpac — www.westpac.co.nz/home-loans

Finalist: ACC — www.findsupport.co.nz

Finalist: ANZ — Investment Statement for the ANZ KiwiSaver Scheme

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People's Choice — Worst 'Brainstrain' Communication

Winner: Funds Administration NZ Limited — Lifestages KiwiSaver Scheme Investor Update

Finalist: Hamilton City Council — Digital Hamilton: Enabling development of a great New Zealand City

Finalist: NZ Police — Vetting Service — Request and Consent Form