RESERVE BANK
Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Adrian Orr and Neil Quigley’s messy saga a lesson in transparency (paywalled)
Sam Smith (Stuff): Reserve Bank in ‘very good standing’ despite resignations, finance minister says
Jack Tame (Newstalk ZB): The Reserve Bank's mistake was trying to protect its reputation
Mountain Tui: Neil Quigley told the National Party he had a gift for them. National gave one of their own
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): What now for governor appointment as RBNZ chair resigns (paywalled)
Stuff: What we know about resignation of Reserve Bank chairperson Neil Quigley
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Reserve Bank chair Neil Quigley resigns with immediate effect
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Neil Quigley resigns as Reserve Bank chairman ‘with immediate effect’ following Ombudsman ruling related to Adrian Orr’s departure
1News: Reserve Bank board chair Neil Quigley resigns 'effective immediately'
Tom Pullar-Strecker and Luke Malpass (Post): Nicola Willis: No demand for Reserve Bank chairman’s resignation (paywalled)
Gareth Vaughan (Interest): Reserve Bank Chairman Neil Quigley falls on sword
PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE
Amelia Wade (Sunday Star Times): Poll: Voters losing faith in Government on key issues (paywalled)
Vernon Small (Sunday Star Times): Government’s reforms verging on Orwellian (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): Caveat emptor v caveat venditor and the Kiwi appetite for risk (paywalled)
Tom Day (1News): Ministers grant themselves powers to hike board fees
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Labour won’t commit to much, but these are the six promises it has made in Opposition
Ben Thomas (Post): On board the Peters train, heading back to the past (paywalled)
Andrea Vance (Sunday Star Times): Tāmaki Makaurau: The battle over Māori politics (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): The Govt hasn't followed through on cutting the public sector
Herald Editorial: Inflammatory political rhetoric leads us down a dark path (paywalled)
Mike Houlahan (ODT): Still fighting, in the electorate and the supermarket aisles (paywalled)
Brent Edwards (NBR): Insurers, supermarkets, a four-year term, Taylor-Travis wedding? (paywalled)
Nevil Gibson (NBR): In the land of lost opportunities
Shayne Currie (Herald): Nine Questions with former Prime Minister Sir John Key
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Internal Affairs concludes investigation into former press secretary Michael Forbes
SUPERMARKETS
Steve Braunias (Newsroom): The secret diary of .. politicians in supermarkets
Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Christopher Luxon says Costco is backing his supermarket policy, but it won’t comment
Hamish McNicol (NBR): Aldi and Lidl ignore Govt’s supermarket pitch (paywalled)
Jamie Ensor (Herald): Labour’s Willie Jackson suggests regulating supermarket prices, but then says it’s not party policy
Liam Dann (Herald): Supermarket prices aren’t too high, wages are too low – let’s focus on the real problem (paywalled)
Bruce Cotterill (Herald): Chasing foreign supermarkets won’t lower food prices (paywalled)
ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Brian Easton (Pundit): Luxon And A Long Recession
Emma Ricketts (Stuff): How much money do you need to live comfortably? We’ve crunched the numbers
Rob Stock (Sunday Star Times): A year since home loan rates started to fall, why’s nobody spending? (paywalled)
Julie Jacobson (Post): No country for the over 50s? (paywalled)
Sam Henderson (ODT): Quality of life dropping for Otago seniors: survey
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Negativity over economy hard to dispel, despite Government urging (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): I think the mood has shifted in NZ
Luke Malpass (Sunday Star Times): Nicola Willis, fresh off the tarmac, bringing with her global fiscal lessons (paywalled)
HOUSING
Tom Hunt (Post): ‘Freezing out here bro’: Voices of the capital’s homeless (paywalled)
Don Brash: Do rising house prices damage economic growth?
Eva Corlett (Guardian): New Zealand’s house prices are finally falling. Could this happen elsewhere?
Thomas Coughlan (Herald): A property crash that is good for the country, but bad for its MPs (paywalled)
Kerre Woodham (Newstalk ZB): I'm not convinced we can do housing intensification properly
Jonathan Killick (Post): Generations clash at ‘fractious’ community meeting (paywalled)
Brent Melville (NBR): Winton drops $138m law suit against Kāinga Ora (paywalled)
Tracy Watkins (Sunday Star Times): Why ‘no pets allowed’ is costing landlords and hurting tenants (paywalled)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE, DEFENCE
Matthew Hooton (Herald): Luxon must condemn Iran’s terrorist agency (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): 'Quite complicated': Government undecided on following Australia on Iranian Revolutionary Guard
Madeleine Chapman (Spinoff): We’re all going to be ashamed of this
RNZ: Exporters need 'certainty', not 'see-sawing' tariff rate, McClay tells US
Dita De Boni (Post): Minister says if balance of US-NZ trade changes, so could 15% tariff (paywalled)
RNZ: Free trade agreement with India creates opportunity for rural exports
RNZ: NZ Defence force partakes in space conflict testing
Joanna Wane (Herald): NZ Army chief Rose King on warfare, women on the frontline and ordering men around (paywalled)
Tom Peters (World Socialists): New Zealand intelligence report accuses China of “foreign interference”
Suzannah Jessep (Newsroom): Political violence to economic slowdown, Korea’s problems are NZ’s problems
BANKS, FINANCIAL SERVICES
Martien Lubberink: Banking Competition Inquiry: Familiar Themes, Uncomfortable Conclusions
Janine Starks (Post): Banking review has potential, but customers must push for more (paywalled)
Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): There's no "silver bullet" solution to bringing in more banks
Martien Lubberink: From Fortress to Mainstream: RBNZ Dials Back its Capital Ambitions
Liam Dann (Herald): Westpac NZ boss Catherine McGrath on the burden of banking and why big profits aren’t necessarily a bad thing (paywalled)
Rob Stock (Post): ComCom’s new list of lenders under investigation includes ASB and ANZ (paywalled)
KIWISAVER
Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Calls to make employer KiwiSaver contributions mandatory
Jane Wrightson (Post): Self-employed heading for financial trouble without KiwiSaver fix (paywalled)
Mary Holm (Herald): The KiwiSaver provider that doesn’t pay contributions on top of salaries for staff (paywalled)
Mandy Te (Interest): Early KiwiSaver withdrawals hit new monthly record high in July
INSURANCE, HAZARDS, CLIMATE CHANGE
Rebecca Styles (Consumer NZ): 5 ways the house insurance market isn’t working for New Zealanders
Mandy Te (Interest): Household insurance bill tops $5000 p.a.
Paddy Gower (Stuff): Hit by flooding, landslip - but council LIM reports said homes should have been safe
Rob Stock (Post): My insurer thinks my home is a flood risk. What should I do? (paywalled)
RNZ: Government announces $2m for Tasman flood waste clean-up
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MĀORI WARDS, REGIONS
Simon Wilson (Herald): Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown blasts Christine Fletcher’s planning comments (paywalled)
Mary Afemata (Local Democracy Reporting): South Auckland left with ‘crumbs’ of mayor’s $20m fund, councillors say
Matthew Nash (Local Democracy Reporting): Māori wards: Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell criticises Hobson’s Pledge for using her image, quotes in social media post
Greg Presland (The Standard): Councils’ obligations to Māori
Crux: CODC claims increased satisfaction levels - but the survey only got 195 responses
Crux: Finding out what QLDC's 18 comms/democracy staff earn proves impossible (paywalled)
Crux: The team behind Mayor Lewers’ election campaign, but no answers on who is covering costs (paywalled)
Crux: Former Queenstown Chamber boss joins "Elect Lewers" campaign group
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): Confidence in South Wairarapa council lacking: Survey
Emily Ireland (Local Democracy Reporting): South Wairarapa mayoral candidates: Getting to the core of council services
Gaurav Sharma (RNZ): The Asian candidates seeking a council seat in Auckland
Post: Wellington mayoral candidates on city safety (paywalled)
Post: Election countdown: Party ‒ sorry, group ‒ time as the vote nears (paywalled)
Matthew Nash (Local Democracy Reporting): Rotorua mayoral candidates go head-to-head for first time
Mike Mather (Waikato Times): Mayoral contenders to get a grilling in Chamber of Commerce debate at Wintec (paywalled)
Herald Editorial: Northland needs commitment and investment, not charity (paywalled)
Madeleine Powers (Waikato Times): Hospo owners hit back at lefty councillors: ‘Spend a day in our shoes’ (paywalled)
Andrew Ashton (ODT): Waitaki District Council staff ‘close to overwhelmed’