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Peter Prince is a (retired) lawyer and historian. He has been writing for decades about legal identity and belonging in 19th and 20th century Australia and the implications for the right to belong in modern Australia. His work has been cited in critical ‘aliens’ cases in the High Court of Australia including Singh (2004), Love & Thoms (2020) and Chetcuti (2021). He is co-editor of Subjects and Aliens – Histories of Nationality, Law and Belonging in Australia and New Zealand (ANU Press, 2023). He served as Principal Lawyer in aged care law with the federal government, and as Director Strategic Policy with the Department of Defence. He was speech writer for Kim Beazley when he was Defence Minister. He worked on the 1987 Defence White Paper which articulated a policy of defence self-reliance for Australia.