Alex Mitchell
NSW politics correspondent
Alex Mitchell is a former state political editor and columnist for Sydney’s Sun-Herald, and arrived at Crikey after a long career in the Canberra press gallery and overseas.
Nathan Rees appears to have committed the cardinal sin of not asking Fairfax and News Ltd if he could have their permission to become premier, writes Alex Mitchell.
With an honors degree in English Literature from Sydney University, Rees is anxious to restore the arts to a place of state importance and significance, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW Premier Morris Iemma has been dumped, Treasurer Michael Costa has been sacked and Deputy Premier and Transport Minister John Watkins has resigned, writes Alex Mitchell.
If NSW Premier Morris Iemma is fair dinkum about restoring some credibility and cohesion to his dysfunctional government, then tomorrow’s Cabinet reshuffle is a no-brainer, writes Alex Mitchell.
Relations between the two Christian Democratic MPs in the NSW upper house, the Rev Fred Nile and the Rev Gordon Moyes, have deteriorated rapidly into state of all-out war, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW Premier Morris Iemma contributed a by-line article to the weeked edition of The Sydney Morning Herald while journalists were on a picket line striking to protect hundreds of jobs and quality journalism, writes Alex Mitchell.
In extraordinary developments inside the Christian Democratic Party, Rev Fred Nile has become President for Life and his critics have been purged, writes Alex Mitchell.
Mike Carlton, one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s most popular columnists, has been sacked after refusing to write for this weekend’s edition, writes Alex Mitchell.
The utter failure of the power sale project can be sheeted home to two people – the Premier and his Treasurer, writes Alex Mitchell.
The visionaries in the Iemma Cabinet want to offer a contract to a private company to stage V8 Supercar racing around the streets of the taxpayer-funded venue, writes Alex Mitchell
