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Kōrero: Ombudsmen and officers of Parliament

Trapped by the Audit Office

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Trapped by the Audit Office

In this cartoon political parties are depicted as mice, trapped by the investigation into election spending carried out by the Office of the Auditor General in 2006. It found that in the run-up to the 2005 election most parties had illegally used Parliamentary Service funds for election advertising.

Courtesy of Chris Slane

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: DCDL-0004161

by Chris Slane

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

David McGee, Ombudsmen and officers of Parliament – Controller and auditor-general, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/cartoon/33116/trapped-by-the-audit-office (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā David McGee, i tāngia i te 21 May 2012, updated 20 January 2017.