{{Short description|Australian writer}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}} '''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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/ben-eltham-29782.html |title=Ben Eltham - the Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |website=www.abc.net.au |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914033946/http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/ben-eltham-29782.html |archive-date=14 September 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Bibliography== [https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/ben-eltham/publications/ Listing]
===Plays=== *{{cite book |author=Eltham, Ben |editor=Cox, Emma |title=Staging asylum : contemporary Australian plays about refugees |location=Strawberry Hills, NSW |publisher=Currency Press |date=2013 |chapter=The Pacific solution}}
===Book reviews=== {|class='wikitable sortable' width='90%' |- !|Date !class='unsortable'|Review article !class='unsortable'|Work(s) reviewed |- |April 2013 |{{cite journal |date=April 2013 |title=[Untitled review] |journal=Australian Book Review |volume=350 |pages=62 }} |{{cite book |author=Scourfield, Stepen |title=As the river runs |location=Crawley, WA |publisher=UWA Publishing |year=2013}} |}
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