Peter Garrett
★★★★
Review
Still burning: Peter Garrett’s well-oiled solo show amps up the passion
The Midnight Oil frontman might be 70, but you wouldn’t know it from this galvanising show behind a new solo record.
- by Michael Bailey
Latest
‘Tell em they’re dreamin’: How Michael Caton and friends helped save Bondi Pavilion
A new documentary details the steps a community took to save a beloved asset.
- by Garry Maddox
Amazement, relief, gratitude from Peter Garrett at the finding of the Montevideo Maru
As the USS Sturgeon chases down a Japanese vessel, it has no idea 1060 manacled prisoners are being kept below deck – some 980 of whom are Australians.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Exclusive
AUKUS
‘God help future generations’: Peter Garrett unloads on AUKUS
The former Labor cabinet minister and Midnight Oil frontman delivered a withering critique of Australia’s decision to acquire nuclear-powered submarines.
- by James Massola
Albanese, Wong return fire at Keating but Garrett, unions back former PM
Midnight Oil’s Peter Garrett stepped away from recording to tweet that AUKUS stinks. Albanese, meanwhile, said Keating’s jibes did nothing “other than diminish him”.
- by James Massola and Matthew Knott
From the Archives, 1997: Armband campaign for native title
25 years ago, footballers, comics, musos, religious leaders, environmentalists and former politicians sat together in a smoky band room of St Kilda’s Prince of Wales Hotel to launch an armband campaign supporting Indigenous land rights.
- by Rachel Gibson
For one of their final shows, Midnight Oil turn to a classic album from a ‘desperate’ time
The “10 to 1” album that thrust the Oils into the global spotlight is taking centre stage.
- by Martin Boulton
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
Peter Garrett’s only regret in politics: I wish I’d got in earlier and stayed longer
The Oils frontman and former Labor minister is watching the election closely.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Voters have shown they don’t want parachute candidates. So why do parties do it?
It is something both sides of politics do: recruit high-profile candidates to attract the attention of voters who might be wooed by a name they know. Kristina Keneally and Andrew Charlton are just the latest examples, but they have stirred debate about Labor’s commitment to diversity.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos and Jacqueline Maley
★★★½
Spectrum
Why Midnight Oil remains one of Australia’s great natural wonders
This week our reviewers listen to Midnight Oil’s Resist, Methyl Ethel’s Are You Haunted? and Beach House’s Once Twice Melody.
- by Barry Divola, Craig Mathieson and Kish Lal
Midnight Oil announces 2022 tour will be the last
Midnight Oil will tour no more after next year. But it’s not the end for the band – not yet, anyway. Probably.
- by Bernard Zuel
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