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Plain Language Champion — Best Individual or Team

Winner: Specialist Channels team, NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi

Finalist: Enliven Plain Language Team, Enliven

Finalist: Jamila Savoy

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Best Plain Language Document — Public Sector

Winner: Transport Rebuild East Coast (TREC) Alliance

Finalist: National Emergency Management Agency

Finalist: Office of the Inspectorate

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Best Plain Language Document — Private Sector

Winner: Manaaki Tāngata | Victim Support

Finalist: Healthify He Puna Waiora | Health Navigator Charitable Trust

Finalist: Make it Easy Kia Māmā Mai | People First New Zealand Ngā Tāngata Tuatahi

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Best Plain Language Website — Public Sector

Winner: Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora — info.health.nz

Finalist: Auckland Council — voteauckland.co.nz

Finalist: Palmerston North City Council — pncc.govt.nz

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Best Plain Language Website — Private Sector

Winner: KidsHealth, Paediatric Society of New Zealand | Te Kāhui Mātai Arotamariki o Aotearoa — kidshealth.org.nz

Finalist: Citizens Advice Bureau New Zealand | Ngā Pou Whakawhirinaki o Aotearoa — konae.org.nz

Finalist: Volunteering New Zealand | Tūao Aotearoa — volunteeringnz.org.nz

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Best Plain Language Sentence Transformation

Winner: Kate Sumner, Auckland Council

Finalist: Jeanette Muscat, Little pink typewriter / FIELD Engineers

Finalist: Kate Sumner, Auckland Council

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Best Plain Language Annual Report

Winner: This category doesn’t have a winner this year

Finalist: Whai Rawa — Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu

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Best Plain Language Technical Communicator

Winner: Enliven Plain Language Team, Enliven

Finalist: Moretalk and Family Law Society NZ

Finalist: Nicolina Newcombe and Imalka Kannangara, IHC Group

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Best Plain Language Turnaround

Winner: Manaaki Tāngata | Victim Support

Finalist: Palmerston North City Council

Finalist: Reserve Bank of New Zealand | Te Pūtea Matua

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People’s Choice — Best Plain Language Communication

Winner: Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora

Finalist: Justice Andrew Becroft, Courts of New Zealand | Ngā Kōti o Aotearoa

Finalist: Mercury

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People’s Choice — Worst Brainstrain Communication

Winner: CityFitness

Finalist: Toitū Te Whenua | Land Information New Zealand

Finalist: Wellington City Council

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Best Plain Language Digital Tool

Winner: Sorted, Te Ara Ahunga Ora | Retirement Commission

Finalist: Ministry of Social Development

Finalist: Te Waihanga | New Zealand Infrastructure Commission