Bernard Keane is an Australian journalist for

Crikey Crikey is an Australian electronic magazine comprising a website and email newsletter available to subscribers. Crikey was described by the former Federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham as the "most popular website in Parliament House" in ''The ...

.Danby, Michael.
Crikey’s Bernard Keane too keen on conspiracy theories
, The Australian, 6 October 2014. He has been Crikey's political correspondent since 2008. He is also the author of several books dealing with politics and related issues, including ''Surveillance'' (2015), ''War On The Internet,'' and ''A Short History Of Stupid'' (with

Helen Razer Helen Razer is a Melbourne-born and Canberra-raised radio presenter and writer. She is the author of four non-fiction books and a columnist with the Australian version of ''The Big Issue'', Melbourne newspaper ''The Age'' and contributor to the m ...

). Prior to his work with Crikey, Keane studied history at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ...

, and then worked as a public servant and a speechwriter in transport and communications. In doing so he acted unceasingly to achieve his childhood ambition of bringing very fast train travel to the Australian people, without success. Keane, Bernard Augustine. "The mess we're in: how our politics went to hell and dragged us with it" (2018), 172.

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