Bernard Keane Explained

Bernard Keane is an Australian journalist for Crikey.^[1] 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),^[2] War On The Internet,^{[3] [4]} and A Short History Of Stupid (with Helen Razer).^[5]

Prior to his work with Crikey, Keane studied history at the University of Sydney, 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. ^[6]

References

1. Danby, Michael. "Crikey’s Bernard Keane too keen on conspiracy theories", The Australian, 6 October 2014.
2. News: Why Bernard Keane's Surveillance will have you watching your back and your data. Hardy. Karen. 2015-08-29. The Sydney Morning Herald. 2017-12-04. en-US.
3. Web site: Co-conspirators: Helen Razer & Bernard Keane. archive.swf.org.au. en-gb. 2017-12-04. 4 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171204222958/http://archive.swf.org.au/component/option,com_2015/Itemid,416/agid,4523/lang,en/task,view_detail/. dead.
4. News: War on the internet: the key fronts. 2011-06-02. Crikey. 2017-12-04. en-US.
5. News: Book review: A Short History of Stupid, by Bernard Keane and Helen Razer. O'Shea. Reviewer: Frank. 2014-12-12. The Sydney Morning Herald. 2017-12-04. en-US.
6. Keane, Bernard Augustine. "The mess we're in: how our politics went to hell and dragged us with it" (2018), 172.