Dr Peter Gale is a researcher and lecturer at the University of South Australia in the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research. He has published in academic journals and edited publications on a wide range of topics, including reconciliation, immigration, multiculturalism, asylum seekers policy, racism, Australian politics and the media. His first book on The Politics of Fear was published in 2005. He has also been involved with Mithra and other aid and development projects through Australind Childrens Fund over the past thirty years and as President of Australind Childrens Fund since 1998.