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Judges’ comment<\/h4>\n

If Air New Zealand’s notice is truly important, it should be worthy of plain language. Instead, it is more of a poorly structured obstacle course. It’s a great example of compliance writing … discouraging you from reading anything that might turn out to be important.<\/p>\n

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Media statement<\/h4>\n

Unfortunately, Air New Zealand declined to send us a media statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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