Bernard Keane

{{Short description|Australian journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox writer | name = Bernard Keane | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | occupation = Journalist, political editor, author | language = | nationality = Australian | education = University of Sydney | alma_mater = University of Sydney | period = 2008–present | genre = Non-fiction, politics, satire, fiction | subject = Politics of Australia, national security, economics, internet freedom | notable_works = | years_active = | website = }} '''Bernard Keane''' is an Australian journalist for Crikey.<ref name="danby">Danby, Michael. "[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/crikeys-bernard-keane-too-keen-on-conspiracy-theories/news-story/1f227440c7e5670842dedc3446d515c5 Crikey’s Bernard Keane too keen on conspiracy theories]", The Australian, 6 October 2014.</ref> 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),<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/why-bernard-keanes-surveillance-will-have-you-watching-your-back-and-your-data-20150820-gj2m5a.html|title=Why Bernard Keane's Surveillance will have you watching your back and your data|last=Hardy|first=Karen|date=2015-08-29|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=2017-12-04|language=en-US}}</ref> ''War On The Internet,''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.swf.org.au/component/option,com_2015/Itemid,416/agid,4523/lang,en/task,view_detail/ |work=Sydney Writers' Festival |title=Co-conspirators: Helen Razer & Bernard Keane |language=en-gb|access-date=2017-12-04|archive-date=4 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204222958/http://archive.swf.org.au/component/option,com_2015/Itemid,416/agid,4523/lang,en/task,view_detail/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/02/war-on-the-internet-1-censorship-harassment-and-attacks/|title=War on the internet: the key fronts|date=2011-06-02|work=Crikey|access-date=2017-12-04|language=en-US}}</ref> and ''A Short History of Stupid'' (with Helen Razer).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/book-review-a-short-history-of-stupid-by-bernard-keane-and-helen-razer-20141208-11orer.html|title=Book review: A Short History of Stupid, by Bernard Keane and Helen Razer|last=O'Shea|first=Reviewer: Frank|date=2014-12-12|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=2017-12-04|language=en-US}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Keane">Keane, Bernard Augustine. "The mess we're in: how our politics went to hell and dragged us with it" (2018), 172.</ref>

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