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.
Stand by for a fresh eruption of factional warfare in the NSW Liberal Party at its State Council meeting on December 8, writes Alex Mitchell.
Slicing through Labor's post-election euphoria is the stark fact that 39 of Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd's parliamentary colleagues voted against him for the leadership less than 12 months ago, writes Alex Mitchell.
There are few certainties in politics but it is odds-on that the NSW Liberal Party director Graham Jaeschke won’t be keeping his job after the federal election. On his watch, the NSW Liberal Party has failed to tame the far right fundamentalist Christian faction which has been encouraged during Prime Minister John Howard’s 11-year term […]
Alarm bells should be sounding in Canberra following the news from Britain that data on 25 million people has been lost in the post, writes Alex Mitchell.
This Saturday marks the first anniversary of the completion of the Cole Report into the AWB kickbacks scandal, which recommended criminal charges be laid against 12 people, including 11 former AWB managers. But nothing has happened. No charges have been laid, writes Alex Mitchell.
With some clever work at his campaign launch, Kevin Rudd has seized the title of the Prince of Parsimony, leaving John Howard with the mantle of the Spendthrift Statesman. The Coalition is calling for a recount, claiming they're the cheapskates. Who's right?
Kevin Rudd's pledge to cut "bloating" within the federal bureaucracy will delight public servants. Razor gangs inflict cuts, and cuts mean redundancies, and for long-time public servants, redundancies are highly rewarding, writes David MacCormack.
Not since Peter Shack courageously fronted the press in the 1990 election to declare that nope, the Coalition hadn't got around to developing a health policy and, for that matter, their record in the whole area was none too flash, has the Coalition had such a shocker of a day in health, writes David MacCormack.
Liberal federal Cabinet ministers, backbenchers and hard-heads in the Liberal Party organisation were dismayed and annoyed by the pathetic performance of Treasurer Peter Costello in yesterday's live debate with Labor’s shadow treasurer Wayne Swan, writes Alex Mitchell.
Today's Sydney Daily Telegraph story that a second casino licence will be issued in NSW "within days" is highly unlikely. It has been planted in the media as part of the intense bargaining that has been conducted for almost three months between the Iemma Government and Victoria’s Tabcorp, owner of Sydney’s Star City Casino, writes Alex Mitchell.
