Story: Ombudsmen and officers of Parliament

More links and websites

• Controller and Auditor General

  Copies of audit reports are available on the auditor general’s website.

• Office of the Ombudsmen

  Information about how to make a complaint to the ombudsmen can be found on the office’s site.

• Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment

  This site has information about the work of the PCE, along with discussion of current environmental issues and copies of reports.

More suggestions and sources

• Bührs, Tom. ‘Barking up which tree? The role of New Zealand’s environmental watchdog.’ Political Science 48, no. 1 (1996): 1–28.

• Gilling, Bryan. The ombudsman in New Zealand. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press; Wellington: Historical Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs, 1998.

• Green, David, and John Singleton. The watchdog: New Zealand’s Audit Office, 1840 to 2008. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2009.

• Young, David. Keeper of the long view: sustainability and the PCE. Wellington: Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, 2007.