Peter Mares is an independent writer and researcher. He is a contributing editor at Inside Story magazine, a member of the moderating team at the Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership and an adjunct senior research fellow at Monash University’s School of Media, Film & Journalism. Peter is the author of three books: No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis (Text 2018), Not Quite Australian: how temporary migration is changing the nation (Text, 2016) and Borderline (UNSW Press, 2002), an award-winning analysis of Australia’s approach to refugees and asylum seekers. Peter spent 25 years as a broadcaster with the ABC, presenting national radio programs and working as a foreign correspondent based in Southeast Asia.
No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis (Text Publishing 2018)
Not Quite Australian: how temporary migration is changing the nation (Text Publishing 2016)
Borderline: Australia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in the wake of the Tampa (UNSW Press 2001 & 2002)
Unintended Consequences of Temporary Migration to Australia’, in Unintended Consequences: the Impact of Migration Law and Policy, edited by Marianne Dickie, Dorota Gozdecka and Sudrishti Reich, ANU Press, Canberra, 2016
'Temporary Migration and its Implications for Australia',
Senate Occasional Lecture Papers on Parliament No 57, February 2012
‘Border Control in Australia’
in Immigration and the Financial Crisis edited by John Higley, John Nieuwenhuysen and Stine Neerup, Edward Elgar, London 2011
The Department of Perverse Effects, Inside Story, 16 June 2017
Surfing with Singer, Inside Story, 31 May 2017
Every town is a Bordertown, Inside Story, 14 December 2016
The consequences of dodgy migration advice, The Law Report, ABC Radio National, 26 July 2016
None of us have hearts of stone, Inside Story, 22 June 2016