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.
At issue is what ministers, backbenchers and parliamentary staff knew about Orkopoulos’s criminal behaviour, writes Alex Mitchell.
The great media brouhaha over the appointment of former Carr minister Brian Langton to the chairmanship of Sydney Ferries is misplaced, writes Alex Mitchell.
Unions are threatening to crash Morris Iemma's party after he attempted to rush through his electricity privatisation bill , writes Alex Mitchell.
Former ALP pollies are somehow managing to forget that the anti-privatisation decision in NSW has been ALP policy since 1997, writes Alex Mitchell.
The resignation of the NSW shadow spokesperson on energy sparked a shadow cabinet reshuffle this morning, reports Alex Mitchell.
The farming communities of regional NSW, especially in the Griffith area and the northern rivers region near Nimbin, were celebrating this week when the Iemma Government introduced the Hemp Industry Bill.
The NSW government has moved into its post-party phase, writes Alex Micthell.
Although he is a national living treasure, Paul Keating has done himself no good by weighing into the war between Premier Morris Iemma and the NSW Labor Party, writes Alex Mitchell.
Rather than force a caucus showdown tomorrow, factional leaders may try to postpone any vote, writes Alex Mitchell.
With the vote against privatisation almost a foregone conclusion, the question is - what next for Iemma and Costa? asks Alex Mitchell
