Patrick Conan Keane completed an honours thesis on Pauline Hanson's One Nation and the 1998 Queensland State Election in 2010.
He was a former staffer for a Labor Senator and is a member of the Australian Labor Party.
You can follow Patrick on Twitter @pckeane2014.
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