Ben Eltham
Lecturer, Monash University and Writer at Freelance
Writer, journalist, researcher, unionist. Banner image: Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, 'Tapestry of Disaster, Immolation' (2012).
Articles
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1 month ago |
crikey.com.au | Ben Eltham
Creative Australia CEO Adrian Collette must have known it would be a tough night. With the sector aflame and his own agency’s future in question, last night’s Senate estimates was the first time the senior arts mandarin had faced sustained questioning since the disastrous decision to cancel the Venice Biennale exhibition of artist Khaled Sabsabi.
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2 months ago |
inkl.com | Daanyal Saeed |Bernard Keane |Ben Eltham |Catriona Menzies-Pike
Birenbaum, who attended the cafe wearing a cap with the Star of David on it, what appeared to be a Star of David pendant, and a pair of thick wraparound sunglasses, strongly denied the cafe’s version of events that were subsequently posted to social media, as well as the suggestion that a recording was taken using video glasses.
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2 months ago |
crikey.com.au | Ben Eltham
Unlike a seat at the football, few politicians make a point of playing up their love of local arts and culture. And until last Thursday, the career of artist Khaled Sabsabi wouldn’t have piqued the interest of many politicians or journalists outside western Sydney. But politics and art are not easily separated, as Sabsabi must know.
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2 months ago |
inkl.com | Ben Eltham |Bernard Keane
Novo Nordisk’s annual results are out and they show the Danish pharmaceutical juggernaut earnt 290.4 billion Danish kroner last year (A$64 billion) — up 25%. Novo Nordisk boasts 45 million customers using their drug Ozempic, which has caused a revolution in weight-loss treatment. Never before was there a drug that actually worked for weight loss. Now there is. The Copenhagen-based company’s revenue was equal to 10% of Denmark’s GDP last year.
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2 months ago |
crikey.com.au | Ben Eltham
Lismore’s library reopened this week, more than three years after the devastating flood that cracked its foundation slab and destroyed 29,000 books. It’s a good news story. People from all over Australia donated books and money to rebuild a library for the flood-hit New South Wales city. “This is a major step in our recovery and rebuild,” Lismore’s mayor Steve Krieg told the ABC. For the citizens of Ingham, recovery has yet to begin.
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Back on my radio bullshit this morning, filling in for Dylan on 3RRR until 12 noon
RT @TeamBandL: alison wonderland dropping vincent’s u don’t know remix even goes hard at the renaissance faire @awonderland https://t.co/…
14 days is indeed an eternity. Imagine how many policies they could backflip in two whole weeks
Coalition MPs say 14 days is an eternity in politics and the party can reclaim ground before voting day in two weeks' time — even as it fends off new claims the Coalition would revive its unpopular work from home plan after the election. https://t.co/KtNOP1uL6U
