Biography: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 (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.

Bibliography

Listing

Plays

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

Book reviews

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