German backpacker Selina Fray was 19 when she arrived in Australia for a working holiday.

"My concern is that prisoners do not have sufficient time out of their cells."

Watchdog will consider whether the system is meeting the needs of the most vulnerable

This summer we look back at the big stories of last year. This is from May.

Investigation hopes to establish whether councils have good practice with LGOIMA requests.

More assaults have followed a damning report into violence at Whanganui Prison.

Investigation after NZ Herald investigation reveals use of fake names for OIA requests.

Herald investigation finds links between "ghost" identities and Taxpayers' Union.

Random inspection finds violence and intimidation at Whanganui Prison.

MPI dragging chain on release of M bovis-related information under the OIA.

"It's not a case of punishing them," mayor says.

Chief Ombudsman will investigate councillors' complaints over CBD stadium report.

Research suggests severe policies have an effect opposite to what was intended.

Auckland's Mayor is being told to stop his secret squirrel behaviour over stadium report.

COMMENT: Hardly surprising council bureaucrats wanted costly stadium report kept secret.

EDITORIAL:Dignity and humane treatment appear lacking in difficult case of Ashley Peacock.

"We have done everything possible to get Ashley out of that place. And still."

NZDF wrongly told the Beehive it sent the NZSAS into battle with a collateral damage ban.

NZDF gives minister wrong information on Hit & Run raid over "collateral damage".

NZDF mistakenly gave Sir John Key a cast-iron assurance over civilian deaths.

More trips permitted to remote glacier than were allowed, Ombudsman finds.

The Hit & Run inquiry will be uncomfortable for all, David Fisher reports.

Ombudsman forces disclosure of dealings with Peter Thiel's firm after a year of refusals.

Overcrowding of our prisons could create real danger to the public, says Chief Ombudsman.

Ombudsman asks MPI to apologise over four-month wait for kauri dieback documents.

The 11-year-old boy was locked in the room for up to 10 minutes at a time.

Government watchdog disappointed conditions fail to improve in NZ prisons.

Jacinda Ardern has five days to respond to the Ombudsman over the secret 33-page document.

Sir John Key said he'd killed a "mass surveillance" programme - yet it kept on going.

The Ombudsman has ordered the Ministry of Education to explain itself.