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.
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By the time parliament limped to a standstill yesterday, Nationals MP Trevor Khan’s bold bid to deepen the exposure of the Orkopoulos scandal was in tatters, writes Alex Mitchell.
Today’s Newspoll in The Australian shows the scale of Labor’s political implosion in NSW, writes Alex Mitchell. But Imre Salusinszky was still spinning it in Morris Iemma's favour.
The Rev Fred Nile and the Rev Gordon Moyes, who collectively constitute the Christian Democratic Party in the NSW Legislative Council, are state parliament’s odd couple, writes Alex Mitchell.
The Weekend Australian, June 21-22, was extraordinary: one long tirade against the Rudd Government and its senior staff. Alex Mitchell counts the ways.
NSW Premier Iemma has sided with Liberals to get his power privatisation bill through. Next stop? Shooters Party. Alex Mitchell explains.
Sydney could have been powered by solar thermal technology in three years, if only for the short-sightedness of politicians. By Alex Mitchell.
The Coalition is enjoying the division between the Labor Government and the NSW branch of the Labor Party over privatisation -- and they're trying to spin it out, writes Alex Mitchell.
These are perilous days for NSW Premier Morris Iemma and his Treasurer Michael Costa, writes Alex Mitchell.
Some extraordinary political jiggery pokery is taking place in the Labor Party on the NSW Central Coast where the ALP’s “golden couple", John Della Bosca and his wife Belinda Neal, live and rule, reports Alex Mitchell.
