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.