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.
NSW Premier Morris Iemma is facing war on two fronts – the labour and trade union movement is rallying against his plans to privatise the power industry while councils are drawing up battle plans to oppose sweeping changes to planning laws, writes Alex Mitchell
NSW Premier Morris Iemma and Treasurer Michael Costa have set themselves on a collision course with the NSW Labor Party and influential trade unions in their headlong quest to part-privatise the state’s electricity industry, writes Alex Mitchell.
Liberal MPs will hold a two-day election post mortem and way-forward strategy meeting in Canberra starting tomorrow with most media attention focused on their differences over Labor’s “Sorry” declaration. But what about WorkChoices? asks Alex Mitchell.
In the Weekend Australian, Bill Hayden expressed outrage at the exuberant critique of the late Paddy McGuinness in the pages of the Fin Review last week by former prime minister Paul Keating. That being the case, Hayden should explain why he sacked McGuinness from his staff in 1974, writes Alex Mitchell.
The official report into the Black Hawk helicopter crash into the deck of HMAS Kanimbla in November 2006 spotlights a culture of slack safety standards in the Australian Army’s 171st Aviation Squadron, writes Alex Mitchell.
The powerful developers’ lobbying group, the NSW Urban Taskforce, has just morphed into the Urban Taskforce Australia and opened offices in Civic in the heart of commercial Canberra to mark the arrival of the Rudd Labor Government, writes Alex Mitchell.
Since its arrival in office two months ago, the Rudd Government has signed five-year job contracts with two departmental secretaries noted for their enthusiastic links to the Howard administration. It hasn't gone down well in Canberra, the seat of power. Here's why, writes Alex Mitchell.
After six months of excuses, evasion and duck-shoving, NSW Premier Morris Iemma has been forced to bow to the public fury over the crisis in the public health system and establish a special committee of inquiry, writes Alex Mitchell.
Now that Kevin Rudd has shut the door on giving out overseas ambassadors' postings to former ALP notables, some of them have announced their moves into academia, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW Premier Morris Iemma and Treasurer Michael Costa will stop at nothing to secure the privatisation of the state's power industry, writes Alex Mitchell.
