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Pattern-recognition education for coercive control, post-separation abuse and the way connected histories are fragmented across systems.
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The Pete Bates Project is an Australian public-education project founded by Pete and Belinda Bates. Its work gives women, professionals and the wider public clearer language for recognising coercive control, post-separation abuse, victim misidentification and the effect of reading a connected history as unrelated events.
The project’s public work includes free recognition guides, long-form case and system analysis, practical communication resources and a federal government submission focused on pattern evidence.
Pete Bates
Pete develops PBP’s behavioural-pattern analysis and public communication work. His focus is how coercive control, post-separation abuse and system fragmentation can become invisible when each event is assessed alone.
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Belinda Bates
Belinda brings lived experience and years in corrections to PBP’s recognition language. Her work focuses on the quiet rules repeated consequences teach, and why adaptation is so often mistaken for free choice.
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