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Peter Mares

Inside Story contributing editor Peter Mares is an adjunct senior research fellow at Monash University’s School of Media, Film and Journalism and a moderator at Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership. He is the author of 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 2001), an analysis of Australia’s refugee policies.

Books & arts Peter Mares 13 July 2018 Books | A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship”
Essays & reportage Peter Mares 22 January 2018 Youth homelessness is more than a question of affordable accommodation. A new project shows how music can play an unexpected role National affairs Peter Mares 6 December 2017 Canada is showing the way, but the funds need to start flowing — and that means biting the bullet on tax National affairs Peter Mares 4 December 2017 A shift to a property tax will make the housing market fairer and more efficient, and researchers have come up with a practical way to do it National affairs Peter Mares 30 November 2017 Projects in Australia and Britain are showing how social housing can be more nimble and responsive
Essays & reportage Peter Mares 28 July 2017 Lunch with the controversial custodian of Australia’s borders, Mike Pezzullo, likely head of the new federal home affairs department
National affairs Peter Mares 3 July 2017 Malcolm Turnbull’s efforts to bring the federal government back into urban policy will be put to the test in Western Sydney National affairs Peter Mares 16 June 2017 The government’s toughening of citizenship rules would worsen the problems it seeks to tackle National affairs Peter Mares 16 June 2017 New data reveals a growing group of long-term temporary migrants Essays & reportage Peter Mares 31 May 2017 Philosopher Peter Singer puts a disturbingly simple case for altruism. Too simple, perhaps?
National affairs Peter Mares 20 April 2017 The latest changes to temporary migration are more than a rebranding, but they make a complex system even more complicated and are being sold in a way that damages social cohesion
National affairs Peter Mares 17 March 2017 Injustices sometimes need to be resisted unlawfully, as critics of Sally McManus should know Essays & reportage Peter Mares 14 December 2016 Near the South Australia–Victoria border, a small community captures the highs and lows of the migration experience National affairs Peter Mares 25 October 2016 Changes to migration rules over the past two decades have made it progressively harder to bring ageing parents to Australia. But does a new policy – promised in the heat of… National affairs Peter Mares 9 September 2016 Among the government’s proposed savings is a little-noticed measure that further erodes the welfare safety net, reports Peter Mares
Essays & reportage Peter Mares 22 August 2016 The Coalition and Labor both say their offshore processing policies are driven by realism, writes Peter Mares. But a practical approach must engage with moral questions as well
National affairs Peter Mares 5 August 2016 With more than 800,000 temporary migrants in Australia, the assumption that everyone who lives here is a permanent resident or a citizen has created dangerous blind spots, writes… National affairs Peter Mares 5 July 2016 Peter Mares reports on a truncated parliamentary inquiry that revealed the problem of having two very different schemes dealing with rural labour shortages National affairs Peter Mares 18 May 2016 Barristers and solicitors have taken the unprecedented step of rallying to demand an increase in legal aid funding. Will it come to wigs on the picket lines, asks Peter Mares National affairs Peter Mares 6 May 2016 The Turnbull government says it won’t allow refugees to be resettled in New Zealand because it’s the “back door” to Australia. Its argument rests on a…
National affairs Peter Mares 22 February 2016 New Zealanders living in Australia have been given a new way of becoming citizens. But as Peter Mares reports, only some of them stand to benefit
Essays & reportage Peter Mares 4 January 2016 Temporary migration is fuelling a new boom in migration from Italy. But trying to settle permanently can be a disillusioning process National affairs Peter Mares 24 December 2015 Australia has passed up the option of settling offshore refugees in New Zealand, writes Peter Mares National affairs Peter Mares 24 September 2015 Thousands of would-be migrants are being told their visa applications have been deemed to have never been made, writes Peter Mares Essays & reportage Peter Mares 9 September 2015 Under pressure from popular opinion, politicians’ children and outspoken backbenchers, the government has announced an extra 12,000 places for refugees from Syria. This…
National affairs Peter Mares 7 April 2015 The federal government has put thousands of valid applications for permanent residency visas on indefinite hold, writes Peter Mares. Migrants already living and working…
Essays & reportage Peter Mares 2 March 2015 The Abbott government’s tough stance on border protection doesn’t only apply to asylum seekers arriving by boat, writes Peter Mares National affairs Peter Mares 4 February 2015 As immigration minister, Scott Morrison set in train three major legislative amendments that increase ministerial discretion and reduce transparency and accountability, writes… National affairs Anne McNevin, Damir Mitric, Klaus Neumann & Savitri Taylor & Peter Mares 13 October 2014 It’s time to fundamentally rethink Australia’s approach to asylum seekers, free of narrow assumptions about what’s politically feasible, write Anne … Books & arts Peter Mares 28 July 2014 New visa arrangements make it possible for international students to study and work in Australia for many years without necessarily being on a path to permanent residency, writes…