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Peter Garrett ‘Climate Politics in the Age of Emergency Address’
How can we develop a stand - up, fearless form of leadership that moves us beyond the failure of business/and partisan politics/ as usual? The second part of the question: What does a climate emergency response look like? As a young boy I loved walking through the...
Peter Garrett ‘Remarks to Labor Environment Action Network’, Sydney December 7 2019
Image: ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN via SMH Here’s what we know. The natural world - our environment - the basis of our existence, is under threat as never before. We are surrounded by fires, force fed by a super hot spring. Our cities and towns are blanketed with smoke and the...
Sidestepping the Apocalypse – Address to the Carbon Market Institute
A hell summer in Oz, super storms smashing people world wide, a million species on the chopping block. The incoming national govt must take emergency steps now. My address to Carbon Market Institute: Sidestepping the Apocalypse I want to thank the Carbon Market...
Midnight Oil reveal final 2019 gigs and possible recording plans
Iconic Australian rock band Midnight Oil today announced two intimate gigs for late May. These will be the Oils' only Australian concerts for 2019 apart from their headlining appearance at the world’s most remote music festival, The Big Red Bash, near Birdsville on...
Some very good news for the future of Kakadu National Park and Jabiru
The Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation, representing the Mirarr traditional owners of Jabiru township in Kakadu National Park, today welcomed the announcement of Coalition and ALP backing for the town’s masterplan and for the revitalisation of Kakadu. In July 2018 the...
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:...
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Some very good news for the future of Kakadu National Park and Jabiru
The Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation, representing the Mirarr traditional owners of Jabiru township in Kakadu National Park, today welcomed the announcement of Coalition and ALP backing for the town’s masterplan and for the revitalisation of Kakadu. In July 2018 the...
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...