Publications by topic
Accountability
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about public accountability.
Advertising and publicity
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about publicly funded advertising and publicity.
Annual audit highlights
Links to our reports and letters to boards and chief executives highlighting the results of our annual audits in local government, central government, and for particular sectors or types of public organisations.
Asset management
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters that discuss asset management.
Climate change
This collection pulls together all our resources – performance audit reports, blog posts, guidance documents, submissions to decision-making or standard-setting agencies – for auditors, public organisations, and the public, about climate change.
Controller function
Links to our content about the Controller function, including regular updates about what we've reported when carrying out that function.
Corporate documents
Links to publications about our organisation - annual plans and annual reports, reviews of us, and auditing standards.
Covid-19
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about the public sector response to Covid-19.
Crisis response and recovery
Links to our content about crisis responses and recovery work, setting out useful lessons for future events.
Defence
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about defence entities and defence-related topics.
Discussion papers
A list of the discussion papers published by the Office of the Auditor-General.
Education
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about the Ministry of Education, schools, polytechnics, universities, wānanga, and education-related topics.
Environment
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about environmental agencies and environmental matters.
Family violence
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about reducing family violence.
Follow-up responses
Links to the letters sent to us when we have asked for an update on progress with recommendations in an earlier report.
Funding/grant programmes
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about funding arrangements and grant programmes.
Health
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about the health sector and health topics.
Housing
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about housing and housing agencies.
Information technology
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about data, information, and information technology.
Inquiry reports
Links to reports and letters we've published after we decide whether to inquire into an organisation's use of public resources.
Integrity
Links to our reports, guides, articles, blog posts, and published letters about matters of integrity.
Justice
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about justice entities and justice-related topics.
Latest reports, articles, and letters
The Auditor-General publishes 40-50 reports, articles, and letters each year. Here are the 10 most recent.
Local government
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about city, district, regional, and unitary councils and council-controlled organisations.
Long-term plan (LTP) publications
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about councils' long-term plans (also called 10-year plans).
Māori entities or kaupapa
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about kaupapa Māori.
Parliament and MPs
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about parliamentary processes and parliamentarians.
Performance reporting
Links to our reports, articles, guides, blog posts, and published letters about performance information and how it is reported.
Procurement
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about procurement.