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 news for Premier Morris Iemma just keeps getting worse, writes Alex Mitchell.
Would someone please alert the search and rescue squad: the NSW Liberal Party is missing in action and no one knows where it is, writes Alex Mitchell.
Can Morris Iemma survive the humiliating defeat that this Saturday’s State ALP Conference will inflict on its plans to privatise the electricity industry? ponders Alex Mitchell.
Cardinal George Pell, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, held a "thank you" dinner for former Prime Minister John Howard at his official residence at Cathedral House last night, reports Alex Mitchell.
M’learned friends of the NSW Bar Association are in the midst of one of the stormiest episodes in their colourful history, writes Alex Mitchell.
The Peter Costello media bandwagon is off and running again and filling vacant minds in Canberra once more, writes Alex Mitchell.
ASIC boss Tony D’Aloisio celebrates a year in the job next month. How has the former ASX CEO handled ASIC, asks Alex Mitchell?
The head-on collision between NSW Premier Morris Iemma and his own party at the annual conference on 3 May will be one for the history books, writes Alex Mitchell.
The rollercoaster careers of NSW Education Minister John Della Bosca and his wife, Belinda Neal, federal MP for Robertson on the Central Coast, continue to enthrall political-gazers, writes Alex Mitchell.
Attendee numbers for the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day are currently running well below forecast, which means the taxpayers could be left holding a huge bill for yet another event fiasco, writes Alex Mitchell.
