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, a fellow at the Centre for Policy Development and an adjunct senior research fellow at Monash University’s School of Media, Film & Journalism.
Peter’s most recent book is No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis (Text 2018). A subsequent four-part series Housing the Australian Nation was broadcast on ABC Radio National’s Earshot program in June 2020 and is available as a free podcast.
Peter is also the author of Not Quite Australian: how temporary migration is changing the nation (Text, 2016) and Borderline (UNSW Press, 2002), an awarding-winning account of Australia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers. In 2018, together with Julianne Schultz, Peter also co-edited an edition of Griffith Review on migration, identity and belonging called Who We Are.
From 1987 to 2011 Peter worked as a journalist and broadcaster with the ABC. During those 25 years he presented national radio programs and served as a foreign correspondent. He subsequently worked on urban policy as Cities Fellow at the Grattan Institute and has been working with Cranlana since 2013 and was Cranlana’s Lead Moderator and Program Director from 2018 to 2022.
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