Story: Freedom of official information

More links and websites

• Political Science: Official Information Act 1982: A bibliography

  A bibliography of published works and theses related to the Official Information Act.

• Ombudsmen – official information complaints

  This section of the website of the Office of the Ombudsmen provides information about the Official Information Act and how to make official information requests.

• The public’s right to know: a review of the Official Information Act 1982 and the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987

  A Law Commission report that looks at how official information law works in central and local government.

More suggestions and sources

• Committee on Official Information. Towards open government. Wellington: Government Printer, 1981.

• Price, Steven. The Official Information Act 1982: a window on government or curtains drawn? Wellington: New Zealand Centre for Public Law, 2005.

• White, Nicola. Free and frank: making the Official Information Act 1982 work better. Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies, 2007.