They're up

The Auditor-General's report on Parliamentary Services advertising expenditure and the Speaker's reply to it are now available from Parliament's website.

Update: Having read some of it: the Auditor-General concludes that almost half of all Parliamentary Services advertising expenditure in 2004 - 05, and over 60% of that in 05 - 06, was unlawful. Some parties - notably New Zealand First in 05-04, and the Greens and Labour in 05-06, had almost their entire spending considered unlawful, while many had over 50%. National seems to have been very well-behaved, though that's probably due to being wealthy enough to wage a permanant campaign with laundered funds, rather than relying on Parliamentary communications to advise the public of their policies. As a general comment, Parliamentary Services disagreed violently with the A-G's interpretation of the rules, arguing that they only outlawed explicit solicitation rather than anything which might persuade anyone to vote for a party. This difference of opinion is the key reason why so many parties have been caught out.

Update 2: having got to the end: the A-G has recommended a review of the Parliamentary Service's financial procedures to ensure they spend money properly, and restated his prior recommendation that the system of funding political parties be reviewed. The Speaker agrees with these recommendations (while disagreeing quite strongly with his interpretation of the rules, which she clearly regards as both retrospective and outlawing a great deal of Parliamentary activity - e.g. holding public meetings), and furthermore proposes retrospective validating legislation on the basis that this is standard practice and mere repayment is not sufficient to erase the unlawfulness of the spending. She will also be asking the parties to respond to the report and consider repaying the money, if only in the interests of restoring public confidence in Parliament.

I suspect we will see validating legislation - which National will oppose - and a lot of parties are suddenly going to become very keen on public funding or changing the rules so they can continue to actually talk with their constituents without having someone leaning over their shoulder to ensure that they don't persuade them of anything.