MEDIA AND PUBLIC IMPACT
Informed Public Commentary
PETERIE, Michelle and Amy NETHERY. ‘What is the Government’s Preventative Detention Bill? Here’s How the Laws Will Work and What They Mean for Australia’s Detention System’. The Conversation. 6 December 2023.
RAMIA, Gaby, Isabella CHOI and Michelle PETERIE. ‘International Student Mental Health and General Well-Being: Why It’s Time for Policy Action’. PPE. 14 June 2022.
RAMIA, Gaby, Isabella CHOI and Michelle PETERIE. ‘It’s Time to Change our Mindset’. The Australian. 20 May 2022.
PETERIE, Michelle. ‘Futile and Cruel: Plan to Charge Fees for Immigration Detention Has No Redeeming Features’. The Conversation. 17 May 2022.
PETERIE, Michelle. ‘For Muslim Refugees in Immigration Detention, Another Sombre, Isolated Eid Holiday’. The Conversation. 11 May 2021.
PETERIE, Michelle. ‘Banning Mobile Phones in Immigration Detention Would Make An Inhumane System Even Crueler’. The Conversation. 1 September 2020.
PETERIE, Michelle. ‘The True Cost of Reopening the Christmas Island Detention Centre’. Overland. 18 August 2020.
PETERIE, Michelle, Greg MARSTON, Philip MENDES, Shelley BIELEFELD, Zoe STAINES and Steven ROCHE. ‘The “Hidden Costs” of Compulsory Income Management’. Social Security Rights Review. 12 August 2020.
STAINES, Zoe, Greg MARSTON, Philip MENDES, Shelley BIELEFELD and Michelle PETERIE. ‘Compulsory Cashless Welfare Programs Harm Women and Children’. The Power to Persuade. 2 March 2020.
PETERIE, Michelle. ‘“People are Crying and Begging”: The Human Cost of Forced Relocations in Immigration Detention’. The Conversation. 2 March 2020.
MARSTON, Greg, Michelle PETERIE, Philip MENDES and Zoe STAINES. ‘“I Don’t Want Anybody to See Me Using It”: Cashless Welfare Cards Do More Harm Than Good’. The Conversation. 26 February 2020.
PETERIE, Michelle, Gaby RAMIA, Greg MARSTON and Roger PATULNY. ‘Does Australia Have a “Job Snob” Problem’. ABC News. 6 August 2019.
PETERIE, Michelle, Gaby RAMIA, Greg MARSTON and Roger PATULNY. ‘Job Snobs? This News Corp Rhetoric is Just Another Way to Blame Unemployment on the Individual’. The Guardian. 6 August 2019.
MARSTON, Greg, Gaby RAMIA, Michelle PETERIE and Roger PATULNY. ‘These “Job Snob” Claims Don’t Match the Evidence’. The Conversation. 6 August 2019.
PETERIE, Michelle. ‘The “Soft” Violence of Onshore Immigration Detention’. Overland Journal. 22 October 2018.
Interviews and Media Coverage
PETERIE, Michelle - interviewed for radio by Mandy PRESLAND. ‘New 5-Year Study on Immigration Detention’. ABC News Radio. 1 August 2022.
PETERIE, Michelle - interviewed for radio by Ella TOOMS. ‘Banning Mobile Phones in Immigration Detention Centres’. 3CR Melbourne. 7 September 2020.
PETERIE, Michelle - interviewed for radio by Tom MANN and Zoe KOUNADIS. ‘Mobile Phone Restrictions in Detention Centres’. Radio Adelaide. 2 September 2020.
PETERIE, Michelle - quoted in article by Jarni BLAKKARLY. ‘There's More to the Reopening of Christmas Island's Detention Centre, Immigration Experts Say’. SBS News. 5 August 2020.
PETERIE, Michelle - interviewed for radio by Tom REYNOLDS. ‘Relocations in Immigration Detention’. RTRFM Perth. 17 March 2020.
PETERIE, Michelle and Greg MARSTON - quoted in article by Rebecca GREDLEY. ‘Cashless Welfare Card Harms Aussies: Study’. The Canberra Times. 26 February 2020.
PETERIE, Michelle and Greg MARSTON - quoted in article by Shannon JENKINS. ‘Cashless Debit Scheme has Overwhelmingly Negative Impacts on Users, Study Finds’. The Mandarin. 26 February 2020.
PETERIE, Michelle and Greg MARSTON - quoted in article by Luke MICHAEL. ‘“I Go in, I Come Out, and I’m All in Tears”: Vulnerable People Humiliated by Cashless Welfare Card’. Pro Bono Australia. 26 February 2020.
PETERIE, Michelle - quoted in article by Lorena ALLAM. ‘Cashless Welfare Card: Loophole Allows Purchase of Alcohol and Pornography’. The Guardian. 15 October 2019.
PETERIE, Michelle and Greg MARSTON - interviewed for radio by Hilary HARPER. ‘Understanding the Real Reasons People are Unemployed’. ABC Radio National Life Matters. 12 August 2019.
Reports and Government Submissions
BIELEFELD, Shelley, Greg MARSTON, Michelle PETERIE and Zoe STAINES. Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs Inquiry into the Social Security Amendment (Continuation of Cashless Welfare) Bill 2020: Submission 118. Parliament of Australia. 23 October 2020.
PETERIE, Michelle. Senate Standing Committees on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Inquiry into Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020: Submission 49. Parliament of Australia. 11 June 2020.
HUMPAGE, Louise, Michelle PETERIE, Greg MARSTON, Philip MENDES, Shelley BIELEFELD and Zoe STAINES. Helping or Harming? Compulsory Income Management in Australia - Summary Report. University of Queensland. February 2020.
MARSTON, Greg, Philip MENDES, Shelley BIELEFELD, Michelle PETERIE, Zoe STAINES and Steven ROCHE. Hidden Costs: An Independent Study into Compulsory Income Management. University of Queensland. February 2020.
BIELEFELD, Shelley, Michelle PETERIE, Zoe STAINES and Greg MARSTON. Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs Inquiry into the Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management to Cashless Debit Card Transition) Bill 2019: Submission 40. Parliament of Australia. 18 October 2019.
Expert Evidence and Parliamentary Debate
Commissioned to write an expert report on self-harm and suicide in Australian immigration Detention for Crown Solicitor’s Office. November 2023.
Research cited in the Community Affairs Legislation Committee Report on Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Repeal of Cashless Debit Card and Other Measures) Bill 2022. The Senate. Commonwealth of Australia. August 2022
Research presented as expert testimony to the Community Affairs Legislation Committee’s Public Hearing on Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Repeal of Cashless Debit Card and Other Measures) Bill 2022. Australian Senate. Burnett Riverside Hotel, Bundaberg. 16 August 2022.
Research article ‘Compulsory Income Management: Combatting or Compounding the Underlying Causes of Homelessness?’ cited in the Report of the Select Committee on Poverty in South Australia. Parliament of South Australia, South Australia. October 2021.
Research report ‘Hidden Costs’ cited in the Report of the Select Committee on Poverty in South Australia. Parliament of South Australia, South Australia. October 2021.
Research report ‘Hidden Costs’ cited by Senator Patrick DODSON in Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Continuation of Cashless Welfare) Bill 2020 - Second Reading Speech. Australian Senate. Parliament House, Canberra. 8 December 2020.
Research report ‘Hidden Costs’ cited by Warren SNOWDON MP in Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Continuation of Cashless Welfare) Bill 2020 Speech. The House of Representatives. Parliament House, Canberra. 12 November 2020.
Research report ‘Hidden Costs’ cited by Kate THWAITES MP in Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Continuation of Cashless Welfare) Bill 2020 Speech. The House of Representatives. Parliament House, Canberra. 12 November 2020.
Quoted by Senator Rachel SIEWART in the Senate Adjournment Pensions and Benefits Speech. Australian Senate. Parliament House, Canberra. 27 February 2020.
Quoted in the Community Affairs Legislation Committees Dissenting Report by the Australian Greens, Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management to Cashless Debit Card Transition) Bill 2019. Commonwealth of Australia. Parliament House, Canberra. November 2019.
Expert testimony presented to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committees Inquiry into the Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management to Cashless Debit Card Transition) Bill 2019: Senate Hearing. Australian Senate. Parliament House, Canberra. 14 October 2019.
Research article ‘Technologies of Control: Asylum Seeker and Volunteer Experiences in Australian Immigration Detention Facilities’ submitted as expert evidence at a hearing of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). AAT. Melbourne. 2019.
Michelle Peterie presenting expert testimony to a Senate Hearing. Parliament House, Canberra.