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.
Regime change in Canberra has seen the sidelining of political consultancy Crosby/Textor and the rise of pro-Labor firm Hawker Britton, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW Liberal MP Chris Hartcher believes that the conviction of Milton Orkopoulos on 28 child sex and drugs charges opens the way for a full-scale investigation into his other victims – the Darkinjung Aboriginal people of the Central Coast, writes Alex Mitchell.
The malicious attack on the Dean of the Sydney Conservatorium and the NSW Governor, marks a new low in academic intrigue and skulduggery, writes, Alex Mitchell.
In just three weeks NSW's Premier will face the NSW Labor Party conference when his plans to privatise the power industry will be debated and chucked out, writes Alex Mitchell.
A NSW Liquor Administration Board ruling in Newcastle is likely to become a template for action against pubs in other parts of NSW, writes Alex Mitchell.
Major banks are about to disclose a major hit from their doomed loans to the hotel sector, writes Alex Mitchell.
Caught in a pincer between the unpopularity of his government’s plans to sell parts of the NSW power industry and toxic seepage from the Wollongong City Council corruption inquiry, Premier Morris Iemma launched a circuit-breaking offensive, writes Alex Mitchell.
The NSW Government promotes Aboriginal self-development but its treatment of the Darkinjung people shows what happens to uppity blackfellas who want to redeem themselves, writes Alex Mitchell.
The NSW Health Department is again under fire with claims of administrative dysfunction and falling morale, writes Alex Mitchell.
The NSW parliament is buzzing with reports that Premier Morris Iemma is planning a major reshuffle of his lacklustre Cabinet, writes Alex Mitchell.
