Neil Mitchell
Neil Mitchell broadcasts on 3AW and hosts the weekly podcast “Neil Mitchell asks why?”
- Opinion
- Roads
There’s something dangerous and deadly lurking in Victoria that no one wants to discuss
The state government supposedly has a strategy to make this problem half as bad. It’s heading the other direction.
- Neil Mitchell
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- Opinion
- Hospitals in crisis
Our hospital system is cracking. Doctors know how to fix it but no one will listen
Staff are being attacked and corridors are at times jammed with sick people. Doctors who see the horror have ideas to fix it, but are not allowed to talk about it.
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- Opinion
- Antisemitism
The AFL usually loves pushing a social cause. So why is it ignoring this one?
The AFL would never admit it, but some around football say it has turned its back when Australia most needs it because it’s nervous about a public backlash.
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- Opinion
- Jacinta Allan
If Allan can’t get it together, she may not be leader come this year’s election
Premier Jacinta Allan is rattled. You can see it in her eyes, hear it in her voice and smell it in her strategy as she blusters and bumbles her way through the Big Build scandal.
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- Opinion
- Political leadership
Think Trump was rough on John Lyons? You never met Bob Hawke on a bad day
From Keating and Hawke to Bishop and Morrison, the avoidance and intimidation tactics I saw from Australian politicians on both sides were extreme. And they were never subtle.
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- Opinion
- Crime
How a ‘Dad’s Army’ of experts could help Victoria’s youth crime problem
The state is home to some of the brightest criminal justice minds. So why not put them to work getting to the bottom of growing crime rates among young people?
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- Opinion
- Hospitals
Unprecedented level of bastardry in Allan government hospital cuts
Pain is coming for the most vulnerable and the most valued in Victoria as the state government prepares to take its razor to the hospital system.
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- Exclusive
- Ambulance Victoria
Leaked reports detail ‘dangerous’ Ambulance Victoria call-centre crisis
WorkSafe has threatened legal action if the ambulance service does not quickly address the worker shortages that are damaging the health of staff and potentially threatening public safety.
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- Opinion
- Political leadership
A contact called me with news about the PM. It left me with a moral dilemma
The source was not a troublemaker or a leadership aspirant. This was not an ALP stunt. It was a person concerned for the man, and the country.
- Neil Mitchell
Former Victorian Liberal premiers donate to Pesutto’s legal fund
Jeff Kennett, Ted Baillieu and Denis Napthine have donated to Opposition Leader John Pesutto’s defamation legal fund.
- Neil Mitchell