Story: Ombudsmen and officers of Parliament

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.
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David McGee, Ombudsmen and officers of Parliament – Controller and auditor-general, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/33116/trapped-by-the-audit-office (accessed 27 October 2025).
Story by David McGee, published 21 May 2012, updated 20 January 2017.