ECONOMY
Matthew Hooton (Herald): The New Zealand economy has crashed completely off the track (paywalled)
Henry Cooke (Post): Weaker-than-expected economy, political polls turn on Christopher Luxon (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Former finance minister Sir Roger Douglas calls for Finance Minister Nicola Willis to resign
Luke Malpass (Post): New Zealand’s economic car is still in the ditch (paywalled)
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Nicola Willis’ toughest day as GDP shrinks 0.9% in June quarter (paywalled)
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Five reasons why this GDP result really matters
Hayden Donnell (Spinoff): Why is the economy so shit?
Henry Cooke (Post): Nicola Willis talked to Prime Minister about keeping her growth job (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): What does shrinking GDP mean for your home loan rate?
Mandy Te (Interest): Economists call for big rate cut from RBNZ after GDP shock
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): The pressure's on the RBNZ to fix the economy - fast
Jamie Gray (Herald): GDP slump sparks calls for Reserve Bank to deliver 50bps rate cut in October (paywalled)
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Nicola Willis points to global turmoil as economy shrinks sharply
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Nicola Willis: ‘Trump disrupted my momentum’
Gyles Beckford (RNZ): Economy contracts sharply as GDP falls 0.9% in June quarter
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): ‘A knock at the wrong time’: Economic activity dived 0.9% in June quarter
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): New Zealand’s bad mood is getting harder to shake
David Hargreaves (Interest): The OCR 'experiment' worked, eventually - but do we want a repeat?
RNZ: Consumer confidence remains soggy amid continued cost-of-living crisis
RNZ: South Waikato mayor says government doesn't 'give a toss' about the regions as another plant closure announced
Hanna McCallum (Post): Optimism fizzles as job prospects ‘feel miserable’, uni student says (paywalled)
RNZ: Job applications rise to record high
PARLIAMENT, PARTIES, POLLS
Matthew Hooton (Patreon): Polls ahead of Mood of Boardroom
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): 'A distraction': Stuart Nash dumped from US trade trip after crude comments
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Fish-hooks snag Stuart Nash's US foreign investor pitch
Joel MacManus (Spinoff): Translation troubles in Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Rawiri Waititi's entitled to answer questions in Māori if he wants to
Melanie Nelson (Spinoff): NZ First is digging its own grave by backing the Regulatory Standards Bill
Herald: Education entrepreneur Jamie Beaton considered standing for National, challenging in Act-held Tāmaki
Russell Baillie (Listener): Clarke Gayford on his doco Prime Minister: ‘Jacinda’s time in office was a whirlwind – we were just trying to keep our heads above water’ (paywalled)
RNZ: Golriz Ghahraman privacy probe continues
BENJAMIN DOYLE VALEDICTORY
1News: 'Hostile and toxic': Benjamin Doyle blasts Parliament in valedictory speech
Lillian Hanly (RNZ): MP Benjamin Doyle farewells Parliament, calls it a 'hostile and toxic' place
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): ‘Hostile and toxic’: Benjamin Doyle says the price to be an MP was too high
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Green MP Benjamin Doyle unleashes on Parliament in final speech after sudden resignation
Anna Whyte (Post): ‘This place was not built for people like me’ - Benjamin Doyle delivers valedictory speech (paywalled)
PUBLIC SERVICE
Anna Whyte (Post): Inside the cuts: Restructures without review - public sector skips the follow-up (paywalled)
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira (RNZ): Public Service Commission to stop tracking if public servants working from home
Anna Whyte (Post): Almost a quarter of public servants work from home on Fridays (paywalled)
Stuff: Public servants working from home slightly less, latest data shows
Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): WFH falls in public service – but will it be enough to help Wellington’s CBD?
Russell Palmer (RNZ): Government needs more RIS - Regulations Ministry
Evie Richardson (RNZ): Grads look offshore as public sector jobs dry up
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER
Nick James (RNZ): RNZ-Reid Research poll: 75% of voters support a rates cap
Crux: Conor English hired as Regional Deal negotiator
Glenn McLean (Taranaki Daily News/Post): Dinnie Moeahu seeks advice over Hobson’s Pledge campaign post (paywalled)
Amy Ridout (Stuff): The weird, the wonderful and the downright nasty in Wellington’s mayoral race
Nick James (RNZ): Cheers, boos, and a sprinkling of 'holy water' at Aro Valley local body elections event
Roger Sharp (ODT): Lakes area needs a Regional Deal
Jonathan Killick (Post): ‘I don’t sign pledges’: Wayne Brown refuses to increase homelessness budget (paywalled)
RNZ: Pātea residents told to boil water before use
RNZ: Hamilton City Council demands man move shed despite incoming law changes
ENVIRONMENT, PRIMARY AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
RNZ: Todd McClay calls Canterbury Regional Council’s nitrate emergency declaration 'gimmicky'
John MacDonald (Newstalk ZB): Nitrate emergency? Do me a favour
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Large Bay of Plenty dairy farm company fined $59,500 for dirtying waterway
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Forestry directors say court-ordered clean-up will make them bankrupt
Ian Llewellyn (BusinessDesk): TTR seabed mining bid not affected by Govt's law change (paywalled)
ENERGY
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Minister foreshadows ‘fundamental’ power market reform
Will Mace (NBR): Looming energy reforms won’t tarnish investor appeal, says Watts (paywalled)
Katie Todd (RNZ): Move by 'rapacious gentailer' to dip further into Lake Hāwea outrages residents
Paul Hume (The Conversation): Solar power cuts electricity bills and carbon emissions – NZ needs to scale up faster
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Gas - what are the options? What are the alternatives?
Ian Lewellyn (BusinessDesk): If Māui closes, Methanex's future is murky says Fuge (paywalled)
MEDIA
1News: Former Talley's manager 'likely' forged documentation, company tells court
Shayne Currie (Herald): RNZ shake-up - commercial media executive Andrew Szusterman appointed to board (paywalled)
Shayne Currie (Herald): Tom Phillips injunction - lawyer and ex-TV journalist Linda Clark squares off with media firms; Unauthorised Jacinda Ardern book cover (paywalled)
Emma Gleason (Spinoff): Scared to scroll: Can you control your feed?
RESERVE BANK
1News: New appointment to Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Former rural banker Hayley Gourley joining RBNZ Monetary Policy Committee
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Agribusiness exec to replace economics professor on committee that sets OCR (paywalled)
HEALTH, DISABILITY
Lisa Owen and Louisa Cleave (RNZ): The 'fly in, fly out' cancer patients spending hundreds of thousands on cutting edge therapy
Herald: Doctors warn of prostate cancer diagnoses doubling as country faces future ‘treatment crisis’
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Simeon Brown looks the taniwha in the eye without blinking – yet
Ruth Hill and Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Senior doctors shrug off Health NZ's bid to force settlement
RNZ: Health Minister Simeon Brown blames doctors' union for failed pay talks
Paddy Gower (Stuff): Taxpayer-funded weight loss drugs would be ‘awesome’, says Pharmac Minister David Seymour
Lucy Xia (RNZ): Denied right to learn Braille: Woman shares historical experience at Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind's apology
HOUSING
RNZ: Kāinga Ora to sell its most valuable state house
Kylie Klein Nixon (Stuff): ‘Country’s most valuable state house’ is on the market
Jessica Hopkins (RNZ): Auckland Council's new housing plan too rushed and needs work, Christine Fletcher says
Dickie Humphries (Post): Homelessness is solvable – I know this because I lived it (paywalled)
Metiria Stanton Turei (ODT): The vital need to advocate for affordable public housing (paywalled)
Catherine Hubbard (Nelson Mail/Post): Nelson’s Maitahi Village gets first fast-track housing green light (paywalled)
Gregor Thompson (BusinessDesk): Nelson project gets first residential housing fast-track consent (paywalled)
Sapeer Mayron (Post): Whose fence is it? Testy legal question for tenancies over election hoardings (paywalled)
COMCOM, COMMERCE ACT REVIEW
Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Seeking faster, sharper Commerce Commission decisions: review (paywalled)
Garth Bray (BusinessDesk): Mergers more likely if ComCom can accept behavioural undertakings (paywalled)
Donal Curtin: The other shoe drops
BUSINESS, REGULATION, EMPLOYMENT
Anna Leask (Herald): Fire officials warned Govt about deadly furniture six years before Canterbury teen perished in horrifying inferno
Jane Yes (Herald): Front Page: Flexible polyurethane foam (FPUF): The deadly fuel hiding in your home
Libby Kirkby-McLeod (RNZ): Tokoroa mill closure: A 'most brutal year' - South Waikato leader
Caroline Williams (Stuff): Hot sauce maker quits bougie supermarket over supplier fees
Andrew Bevin (Newsroom): Dumped Chinese peaches under microscope as Wattie’s axes local growers
Kate McVicar (NBR): McCain and Wattie’s cut fruit and vegetable supply (paywalled)
Michael Neilson (BusinessDesk): Fisher & Paykel Healthcare urges Government to shut patent loophole costing millions, threatening NZ manufacturing (paywalled)
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): Unions seem to have struck themselves into irrelevance
EDUCATION
RNZ: Primary teachers vote to strike in October, secondary teachers' strike underway
Stuff: Primary school teachers, principals and support staff to strike in ‘historic first’
Cate Macintosh and Hanna McCallum (Post): ‘The children deserve better’: Primary teachers, principals, teacher-aides, support workers to strike (paywalled)
Malindi MacLean (Post): Outward Bound: Dropping outdoor education may benefit us but it's a bad idea (paywalled)
Herald: Education Ministry reverses plan to remove agriculture subjects from schools
Paora Manuel (Waikato Times): Education Ministry backtracks on scrapping agriculture subjects (paywalled)
Libby Kirkby-McLeod (RNZ): Waikato 13-year-old at home after being excluded from school, no others willing to take him
Jimmy Ellingham (RNZ): 'At least we're going to have a bus' - Palmerston North school routes saved for now
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Family Boost has been expanded - here’s how much you could get
Matthew Littlewood (ODT): Uni's 'streamlining' plans stoke concern (paywalled)