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 completed a PhD at Western Sydney University on cultural policy[1][2]. He has served as national affairs correspondent for New Matilda.
Contributions
[edit]- 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.[3]
Bibliography
[edit]Plays
[edit]- Eltham, Ben (2013). "The Pacific solution". In Cox, Emma (ed.). Staging asylum : contemporary Australian plays about refugees. Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency Press.
Book reviews
[edit]| 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. |
References
[edit]- ↑ Eltham, Ben (2013). "Making it national, making it new: A journey through Australian cultural policy". Western Sydney University Library. Retrieved 9 September 2026.
- ↑ Eltham, Ben (2013). "Making it national, making it new: A journey through Australian cultural policy" (PDF). Retrieved 9 September 2026.
- ↑ "Ben Eltham - the Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". www.abc.net.au. Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
Categories:
- Australian essayists
- Australian male essayists
- Australian male dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Australian philosophers
- Film theorists
- Literary theorists
- Living people
- Mass media theorists
- Australian philosophers of art
- Philosophers of culture
- Philosophers of literature
- Philosophers of social science
- Australian social philosophers
- University of Queensland alumni
- Western Sydney University alumni