Publications by topic

Accountability

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about public accountability.

Advertising and publicity

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about publicly funded advertising or publicity.

Annual audit highlights

A list of 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

A list of reports, articles, or 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

A list of content about the Controller function, including regular updates about what we've reported when carrying out that function.

Corporate documents

A list of publications about our organisation - annual plans and annual reports, reviews of us by other audit offices, and planning documents.

Covid-19

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about the public sector response to Covid-19.

Defence

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about defence entities or defence-related topics.

Discussion papers

A list of the discussion papers published by the Office of the Auditor-General.

Education

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about educational institutions (the Ministry of Education, schools, polytechnics, universities, or wānanga) or education topics.

Environment

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about environmental agencies or environmental matters.

Family violence

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about reducing family violence.

Follow-up responses

A list of the letters sent to us when we have asked for an update on progress with recommendations in an earlier report.

Funding/grant programmes

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about funding arrangements or grant programmes.

Health

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about the health sector or health topics.

Housing

A list of reports, articles, or published letters about housing and housing agencies.

Information technology

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about data, information, and information technology.

Inquiry reports

A list of the reports produced outside of the Office's scheduled work programme, as a result of the Auditor-General's decision to inquire into a public entity's use of resources.

Integrity

A list of our content (including reports, guides, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about matters of integrity.

Justice

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about justice entities and justice-related topics.

Local government

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about the local government sector (city, district, and unitary councils, and council-controlled organisations).

Long-term plan (LTP) publications

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about councils' long-term plans (also called 10-year plans).

Māori entities or kaupapa

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about kaupapa Māori.

Parliament and MPs

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about parliamentary processes or parliamentarians.

Performance reporting

A list of our content (including reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters) about performance information and how it is reported.

Procurement

A list of our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about procurement.