The Pete Bates Project
Lived-experience speaking and public education about harmful patterns, consequences, accountability and rebuilding, with a specialist women’s-safety body of work.
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Pete Bates is a lived-experience speaker, public educator and co-founder of The Pete Bates Project. His work connects childhood adversity, addiction, offending, prison and rebuilding with harmful patterns and accountability. He also develops PBP’s specialist coercive-control and systems analysis.
Full Pete biography →
Belinda Bates is a co-founder, author and public educator. Corrections work and lived experience of coercive-control adaptation inform her perspective on women’s safety, children, systems, consequences and accountability. She is the author of The Quiet Rules You Never Agreed To.
Full Belinda biography →Together, Pete and Belinda bring distinct lived and corrections perspectives to public discussion. Joint interviews and speaking are considered against the brief.
PBP brings lived experience and public-education perspectives to interviews about harmful patterns, consequences and rebuilding.
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Public policy
Pete and Belinda co-authored PBP’s submission to the Australian Government’s Second Action Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children. The submission focuses on connected pattern evidence and the harm of reading a history as separate incidents.
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