Ben Eltham
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.
- 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.
Plays