Standards, laws, and regulations play an important role in supporting credible and transparent reporting about climate change. Amy Hamilton describes how we’re actively providing submissions on draft standards, laws, and regulations to try to get really good reporting for New Zealanders.
2023
Auditor-General John Ryan reflects on the need for public organisations to maintain integrity in meeting new climate reporting requirements in a high public interest area and to avoid ‘greenwashing’.
Associate Director Amy Hamilton already cared about climate change and the part our business units can play to address it. Now that she’s about to have her first child, the work is even more important. While Amy’s midwife monitors the health of her baby, it's up to us to monitor the health of our environment.
Senior performance auditor Marianne Bevan reflects on the Office’s recent work monitoring the New Zealand Defence Force’s progress in preventing inappropriate and harmful behaviour in the organisation.
Several classics turned 40 in 2022, including the Official information Act. Weiyi Zhang, Senior Policy Advisor, sat back to enjoy the popcorn as experts described the critical role that public sector leaders play as stewards of this incredibly important Act.
In the first of a series summarising lessons from the Office’s inquiry work the team looks at the importance of keeping clear and accessible records.
There are many smaller public organisations in New Zealand that do a lot of work and are important to their local communities. Often these organisations don’t get a lot of attention. Richard McGee explains the work REAPs do and why we’re interested in them.