Peter Mares (Australia)
Journalist and Broadcaster
Peter Mares has been a journalist and broadcaster with the ABC for more than twenty years and currently presents the weekly public policy discussion program The National Interest on ABC Radio National. He was formerly presenter of the daily regional current affairs program Asia Pacific, and also worked for two years as an ABC foreign correspondent based in Vietnam in the mid 1990s. Peter is also an adjunct fellow at the Institute of Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology where he pursues his interests in migration, borders and rights. He has contributed to various print publications including Inside Story and Griffith Review and has written several academic book chapters and journal articles. His book Borderline (UNSW Press 2001 and2002) analysing Australia’s policies towards refugees and asylum seekers, won prizes in the Queensland and NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
