Local government: Results of the 2008/09 audits.
Advertising and publicity
Links to our reports, articles, blog posts, and published letters about publicly funded advertising and publicity.
October 2006: In the three months before the General Election on 17 September 2005, the Auditor-General became concerned that electioneering material may have been paid for by the Parliamentary Service out of resources appropriated for MPs’ and parliamentary parties’ advertising...
June 2005: Publicity and advertising are important activities for governments and parliamentary parties, which can legitimately be paid for with public funds. But at the same time such activities are inherently sensitive, and open to the risk of abuse...
September 2004, letter to Hon Murray McCully MP.
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