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Peter Garrett announced as official ambassador for Stop Adani
Today I am becoming an official ambassador for #stopadani. For me, stopping the grotesque Adani mine is the key environmental campaign of this year. We need to give the Great Barrier Reef a fighting chance, and carve out a cleaner, renewable energy future for...
Peter Garrett announced as special guest for Spinifex Gum: Live In Concert
Peter Garrett has today been announced as a special guest artist at Spinifex Gum's live shows in Melbourne and Adelaide this March. SEE SPINIFEX GUM LIVE IN CONCERT TICKETS ON SALE NOW SUN 11 MAR Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University Clayton campus, Melbourne....
Trashing our crown jewel: The fate of the Great Barrier Reef in the coal age
Today, The Hon Peter Garrett AM addressed the National Press Club in Canberra, in a session titled "Trashing Our Crown Jewel: The Fate of the Great Barrier Reef in the Coal Age". To read the full transcript of Peter's speech, click...
Peter Garrett to speak at National Press Club
I've accepted an invite to speak at the National Press Club, Tue 24 Oct. The session will be titled "Trashing Our Crown Jewel: The Fate of the Great Barrier Reef in the Coal Age". Tickets available...
Peter Garrett will be at The Piano: Centre for Music and the Arts in Christchurch on Sunday 10 September as part of WORD Christchurch 'Shifting Points of View' series to talk about his book Big Blue Sky and sign copies afterwards. Limited tickets available:...
Midnight Oil announce ‘The Great Circle 2017’ World Tour
SYDNEY, Australia. Feb 17. 2017. 9:45am AEDT. Legendary Australian rock band and agitators Midnight Oil today announced their first World Tour in over two decades. They also unveiled plans to release three archival box sets including a collection called “The Overflow...
PETER GARRETT & KEV CARMODY: Twilight at the Zoos treats Sydney & Melbourne music fans with two greats sharing the same stage for the first time!
Both Peter Garrett and Kev Carmody have spent decades recording and performing songs which tap deeply into the Australian psyche. Until now the two have never shared the same stage but will later this month as they open the Twilight at Taronga series in Sydney on...
Peter Garrett to play Twilight at Taronga and Melbourne Zoo Twilights concert series
Peter Garrett has announced that he will be playing some very special shows at Taronga Zoo's 'Twilight at Taronga' concert series (Friday 27 Jan) and Melbourne Zoo Twilight Sessions (Saturday 28 Jan) with his band The Alter Egos. Peter will be supported by the...
Peter Garrett debuts video for ‘It Still Matters’, new album debuts top 3
A video of ‘It Still Matters’, the potent closing track to Peter Garrett’s debut album, is available for viewing here. Directed by Paul Elliott from Light Corporation, the video is part composition of daily life and part performance, with Garrett straddling his guitar...
Peter Garrett reveals ‘It Still Matters’, ‘A Version of Now’ Tour shows selling out
‘It Still Matters’, the third track from Peter Garrett’s forthcoming debut solo album, is available now as an instant grat on pre-order of ‘A Version of Now’ (released this Friday July 15). The track reminds us of Peter’s stature as a seminal songwriter, as he...
In the media
Australia’s Shrinking Environmental Protections
Environment laws - strengths & weaknesses - in the spotlight today courtesy of The Guardian - click here.
Peter Garrett: Back on centre stage to fight Adani, push for 100% renewables
In an impassioned speech, Peter Garrett said the Adani coal project “cannot be allowed to happen” and promised he would be in the front line to stop it, writes Giles Parkinson. Read the full article...
Peter Garrett’s alter ego
According to Peter Garrett, putting his new band on stage for the upcoming Zoo Twilight concerts makes perfect sense, writes Martin Boulton.
Why the ALP must focus its policy on the environment
29 October 2016 The JK McDougall Lecture to the Ararat Branch of the Australian Labor Party (edited version) by Peter Garrett. 'Labor, the natural party of the environment.' Politics in 2016 is shrinking; hollowing out and spiralling in weird directions that are hard...
Peter Garrett says ALP can reverse vote decline by prioritising environment
Former environment minister says party needs to make commitment more explicit in order to win over progressive voters, who have drifted to the Greens.
Real, raw, rural domestic violence: how a small town helped break the silence with a documentary
The woman in the documentary - narrated by Peter Garrett - tells of receiving broken ribs as her husband kicked her on the floor, and having to take a punch he intended for her child.
Waverley Mayor Sally Betts says $38m Bondi Pavilion upgrade will go back to community for feedback
Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett joins Bondi Pavilion fight Liberal not proud of crossing floor on pavilion issues Waverley Council preparing ‘fair use’ policy for Bondi Pavilion Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull drawn into pavilion debate THE community will get...
Peter Garrett: solo album ‘A Version of Now’ leads Midnight Oil comeback – Iain Shedden, The Australian
No one has ever looked more relaxed and comfortable. Sitting on a sofa sipping tea, he is a formidable, familiar figure, happily taking stock of his life against the backdrop of a Sydney recording studio. In this chamber there is no opposition to shout him down, no...
Yothu Yindi’s ‘Treaty’ – Double J
Yothu Yindi were one of the first bands to bring the music, the stories and the issues of Indigenous Australia to the world with their energetic and beautiful music. Peter Garrett contributes some words to this feature on Double J, celebrating 25 years since the...
Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett to release debut album after 15 years away from recording studio
Midnight Oil frontman and former politician Peter Garrett has announced the release of a debut solo album, which he says happened by accident.