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.
The National Party has a spectacular record of losing the seats once held by its federal leaders, writes Alex Mitchell.
The local council elections in NSW in September promise to be a riotous affair but nowhere more colorful than in Warringah on Sydney's northern beaches, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW Premier Morris Iemma's days are done, writes Alex Mitchell.
The nurses' union donated $5,000 to a football club in north-west Sydney. A strange choice ... until you realise the general secretary's daughter is a club member. Alex Mitchell reports.
For Labor MPs, the long winter recess is time to get on the mobile to discuss what to do about the two architects of the government’s self-destruction, writes Alex Mitchell. That is, Premier Morris Iemma and Treasurer Michael Costa.
Among modern-day business rorts, the privately-owned colleges selling education courses to overseas students are in a category of their own, writes Alex Mitchell. Crikey has the inside word from a former Sydney college executive.
Can the Iemma Government continue to call itself “Labor” in the full meaning of the term? asks Alex Mitchell.
The NSW Opposition has raised concerns about Tianda Resources’ claim to being “an international corporation” which is acting as a “bridge” between China and Australia to take advantage of the resources boom, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW Minister for Energy Ian Macdonald has been courting mystery businessman Alan Fang, chairman and managing director of the Tianda Group, reports Alex Mitchell.
The scalp of John Della Bosca or Belinda Neal may be claimed this week as Labor powerbrokers seek to staunch the ongoing media attention on Iguanagate.
