Bernard Keane
Politics editor@BernardKeane
Bernard Keane is Crikey’s political editor. Before that he was Crikey’s Canberra press gallery correspondent, covering politics, national security and economics.
People on the aged pension are an interest group like any other. Their claims to taxpayer dollars should be evaluated, like any others, critically, and based on evidence, writes Bernard Keane.
Costello’s not helping himself. After months of intriguing silence, now that he’s actually saying things, it’s apparent there’s not much actually there, writes Bernard Keane.
Special Minister of State John Faulkner today committed to legislation establishing a "preferred model" for whistle-blower protection in 2009, writes Bernard Keane.
Important questions remain unasnwered about Nathan Rees' involvement in the scandal which enguldred former colleague Milton Orkopolous, writes Bernard Keane.
It’s probably too much to ask for political courage and vision, writes Bernard Keane.
Playing kingmaker at a State level opens up vast pork-barrelling possibilities, writes Bernard Keane.
Palin isn’t from round those parts. She’s from small-town America, a white America where they work hard for a living even if they’re middle-class, where they call it “Eye-rack", writes Bernard Keane.
In Garnaut's view Australia is too late to avoid “substantial impacts” which will, as he said in his dry economist’s tone, require “major adaptation", writes Bernard Keane.
If we want to use native forests as a means to avoid doing something about climate change, we first have to slow the pace at which we’re destroying them – legally and illegally, writes Bernard Keane.
Stephen Conroy is shaping up as the biggest friend of the free-to-air networks in ages – and given the track record of both sides of politics, that is saying something, writes Bernard Keane.