Bernard Keane

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Bernard Keane is an Australian journalist for Crikey. [1] He became Crikey's political correspondent in 2008 and has since become its politics editor.

He is also the author of several books on politics and related topics, including Surveillance (2015), [2] War On The Internet, [3] [4] and A Short History of Stupid (with Helen Razer). [5]

Before joining Crikey, Keane studied history at the University of Sydney, and later worked as a public servant and speechwriter in the transport and communications sector. 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. Hardy, Karen (29 August 2015). "Why Bernard Keane's Surveillance will have you watching your back and your data". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  3. "Co-conspirators: Helen Razer & Bernard Keane". Sydney Writers' Festival . Archived from the original on 4 December 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  4. "War on the internet: the key fronts". Crikey. 2 June 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  5. O'Shea, Reviewer: Frank (12 December 2014). "Book review: A Short History of Stupid, by Bernard Keane and Helen Razer". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  6. Keane, Bernard Augustine. "The mess we're in: how our politics went to hell and dragged us with it" (2018), 172.