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.
There's something sick in the upper echelons of the Sydney media. Proof? Check out the coverage of the death of radio shock jock Stan Zemanek.
When John Howard announced his Northern Territory Aboriginal rescue plan less than two weeks ago he believed he was on an election winner. But already this misconceived, ill-advised, policy-on-the-run project is in serious trouble.
The distressing saga of Private Jake Kovco has already created some troubling and confusing political issues, including: A full military funeral was awarded to a solder who was killed as a result of a yet-to-be-explained pistol mishap. He wasn’t killed in action and he wasn’t killed by “the enemy”. On the contrary, he was killed […]
Stephen Mayne asked in Crikey last Friday whether a Scientologist like James Packer can be involved in the casino business. A professional anecdote can provide you with the answer. In the late 1960s I worked for The Sunday Times in London becoming the resident Scientology specialist. When the late Lafayette Ron Hubbard took his travelling […]
Crikey obviously does not think I have an inherent and ongoing conflict of interest in going into a joint venture with Carnegie Wylie, because if it did it would say so. Instead, yesterday’s item talked about a “possible conflict of interest that could arise”. So did a conflict arise with my piece on Pacific Hydro […]
