Bernard Keane is an Australian journalist for

Crikey Crikey is an Australian online news outlet founded in 1999. It consists of a website and email newsletter available to subscribers. History Crikey was founded by the activist shareholder Stephen Mayne, a journalist and former staffer of the ...

.Danby, Michael.
Crikey’s Bernard Keane too keen on conspiracy theories
, The Australian, 6 October 2014. He became Crikey's political correspondent in 2008 and has since become their politics editor. 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 ...

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

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...

, 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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