Peter Mares
Peter Mares is an adjunct researcher at the Institute for Social Research,
having worked as a Senior Research Fellow
from 2004–06, when he carried out an ARC funded investigation
into the feasibility of a seasonal labour program for
Pacific Islanders to be employed in Australia's horticultural industry.
Peter is also a journalist with ABC Radio National, where he presents
the weekly discussion program The
National Interest.
Peter continues to pursue a longstanding interest in issues of human movement
and human rights. He is the author of Borderline:
Australia's Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (UNSW Press,
2001) which was awarded the 2002 Gleebooks Prize at the
NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the non-fiction prize
at the 2001 Human Rights Awards, the 2001 individual prize of the Centre
for Australian Cultural Studies and was a joint winner at the 2001 Queensland
Premier's Literary Awards. As a visiting researcher at the Institute in
2002, Peter completed a comprehensively revised and updated edition of
Borderline (Borderline:
Australia's Response to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in
the Wake of the Tampa, UNSW Press 2002). Before joining the Institute,
Peter spent 15 years reporting on Asian and Pacific affairs for the ABC,
including two years as a foreign correspondent based in Hanoi and four
years as presenter of the daily regional current affairs program Asia
Pacific.  Publications in the Swinburne Research Bank
Previous publications
2003
Mares, P., "Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Media Images
of Refugees and Asylum Seekers" in Edward Newman and Joanne van
Selm (eds), Refugees and Forced Displacement: International Security,
Human Vulnerability, and the State, United Nations University Press,
Tokyo, 2003, pp 330-349
Mares, P., "Controlling Compassion: The media, refugees and asylum
seekers" (together with Pascale Allotey) in Pascale Allotey (editor), The
Health of Refugees, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp 212-227
Mares, P., "What Next for Australia's Refugee Policy?" in
M. Leach and F. Mansouri, Critical Perspectives on Refugee Policy
in Australia, Deakin University, 2003
Mares, P., "Tampa Scamper", Meanjin, vol. 61, no.3,
2002
Mares, P., "A
Death in the Rain: Who Killed Viliami Tanginoa", Australian
Financial Review (Review section), 19 December 2003
Mares, P.,"Protecting Australia the Labor Way", Australian
Financial Review (Review section), 3 January 2003
2002
Mares, P., Borderline: Australia's Response to Refugees and Asylum
Seekers in the Wake of the Tampa, UNSW Press, 2002 –significantly
updated and revised post-Tampa edition
Mares, P., "Plugging the Holes in Fortress Australia", Australian
Financial Review (Review section), 20 December 2002
Email: pmares@swin.edu.au
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