Over the life of the journal funding has principally come from the The Australian Film Commission . The journal began as a joint initiative between Tom O'Regan at Murdoch University and Brian Shoesmith at Edith Cowan University , Perth. From 1991-5 it was wholly located in the Centre for Research in Culture and Communication at Murdoch University. From mid-1995 it was located in the Department of Media Studies at Edith Cowan University. The Cultural and Communication Reading Room contains the sixteen issues produced with the editorial involvement of staff at Murdoch University, particularly Tom O'Regan and, to a lesser extent, Alec McHoul and Toby Miller.
Continuum is a thematically based cultural studies journal.
Each issue is devoted to the exploration of a particular cultural site. Sites have included indigenous media, television, Asian cinema, media discourse, film style, publishing, photography, radio, 'Screening Cultural Studies', electronic arts in Australia and 'Critical Multiculturalism'. The journal is committed to articulating the energies, fragmentations, and loose coalitions that attend such cultural sites. The journal promotes an interventionist strategy by announcing areas of work in cultural and screen studies in Australia that need to be covered, and then sets about covering these through its special issues. In this way our aim is to help set the agenda for cultural and screen studies in Australia.