Benjamin Clark
Freelance writer @ben_clark56
Benjamin Clark is a Melbourne-based freelance writer and arts worker. His writing has appeared in Crikey and The Age, and focuses on Australian politics and culture.
After the shock loss at the federal election, Labor is running scared. But backing away from a progressive tax agenda is a mistake.
Counter to many election predictions, it's the boomers wot won it. Now we desperately need to reckon with the results.
Labor’s proposed boost to arts funding comes after a decade of declining public support. Funding isn't the only problem the sector faces.
Sports fans are fed up with corporate capture of the leagues we follow. It's time to fight back.
Don’t be fooled by the ultra-Aussie rhetoric: the Coalition's actions show contempt for Australia’s most beloved institutions and national symbols.
It's in the government's interest to push the narrative of an "aspirational class", but this wildly obscures what's really going on.
For all the right's railing about community values, they sure do make it hard to live in a community.
New union Hospo Voice and Victorian Labor are confronting wage theft in hospitality. But are consumers?
Why does a 20-year-old deserve less pay than a 21-year-old doing the same job? If the unions want more young people on board, this is the way to get them.
That champions of universal basic income think the lives of artists — or any workers — would flourish under UBI shows that they are out of touch with the wealth systems they are trying to disrupt.