What Pete works on
Pete co-founded The Pete Bates Project with Belinda Bates. He develops the project’s behavioural-pattern analysis, case explanations and communication frameworks. His central question is what becomes visible when repeated conduct, changing routes of access and the consequences of resistance are read together.
His public work focuses on coercive control, post-separation abuse, children used as leverage, victim misidentification, the credibility gap between calm presentation and visible distress, and the fragmentation of a connected history across police, courts and services.
Experience that informs the work
Pete has publicly described growing up in a household affected by severe domestic violence and later spending fourteen and a half years in Queensland correctional institutions, including maximum-security environments. PBP does not present that history as a professional credential. It is part of the lived lens Pete brings to questions of dangerous behaviour, accountability and escalation.
He is not presented as a psychologist, lawyer, clinician or academic. PBP’s role is public education and pattern-recognition communication, with specialist legal, clinical and safety decisions left to the appropriate professionals.
Public work
- Co-founder of The Pete Bates Project
- Pattern-recognition videos and long-form case analysis
- Co-author of PBP’s submission to the Australian Government’s Second Action Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children
- Media and podcast commentary on coercive control and systems response