What Belinda works on
Belinda co-founded The Pete Bates Project with Pete Bates. Her work names coercive-control adaptation from the inside: the behaviour a woman changes to avoid the next accusation, withdrawal, humiliation, punishment or escalation.
She focuses on the quiet rules that may never be stated aloud, why continued responding does not prove contact is welcome, and why behaviour that looks like agreement from outside may have been shaped by the expected consequence of refusing.
Experience that informs the work
Belinda brings lived experience and professional experience from working in Queensland corrections. That background informs PBP’s communication about accountability, adaptation and the gap between what a woman lived and what an incident-based system can hold.
She is not presented as a psychologist, lawyer, clinician or academic. Her work is public education and survivor-facing recognition language, not individual legal, clinical or crisis advice.
Public work
- Co-founder of The Pete Bates Project
- Author of The Quiet Rules You Never Agreed To
- Co-author of PBP’s submission to the Australian Government’s Second Action Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children
- Public commentary on adaptation, coercive control and women’s lived recognition