Ben Eltham Explained

Ben Eltham is an Australian writer, journalist, researcher, creative producer and social commentator based in Melbourne.

He is a lecturer in media and communications at Monash University's School of Media, Film and Journalism and was a fellow of the Centre for Policy Development and a research fellow at Deakin University's Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention. Eltham studied neuroscience and philosophy at the University of Queensland, and did a PhD at Western Sydney University on cultural policy. He has served as national affairs correspondent for New Matilda.

Contributions

• Public policy of culture in Australia, particularly at federal level.
• When the Goal Posts Move: Patronage, power and resistance in Australian cultural policy 2013–2016 (Currency House, 2016).
• Popular media; journalist and essayist with New Matilda, contributor to Crikey, Guardian Australia, Overland, Meanjin and the Sydney Review of Books.
• Producer and festival director in Newcastle, Brisbane and Melbourne.^[1]

Bibliography

Listing

Plays

• Book: Eltham, Ben . Cox, Emma . Staging asylum : contemporary Australian plays about refugees . Strawberry Hills, NSW . Currency Press . 2013 . The Pacific solution.

Book reviews

Date	class='unsortable'	Review article	class='unsortable'	Work(s) reviewed
April 2013	April 2013 . [Untitled review] . . 350 . 62 .	Book: Scourfield, Stepen . As the river runs . Crawley, WA . UWA Publishing . 2013.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ben Eltham - the Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) . www.abc.net.au . 13 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120914033946/http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/ben-eltham-29782.html . 14 September 2012 . dead.