From Canberra’s parliamentary benches to a efficiency stage within the dusty outback, Peter Garrett is at all times prepared to supply an opinion.
The frontman of protest rock band Midnight Oil for the previous 47 years, Garrett served as a cupboard minister in two Labor governments, and is the previous president of the Australian Conservation Basis.
On Thursday he and the band took to the stage on the Mundi Mundi Bash pageant on the beautiful Mundi Mundi Plains, west of Damaged Hill, delivering a message by way of music.
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Earlier than the efficiency he spoke to AAP concerning the significance of resisting the temptation to grow to be cynical about politics.
“Australia’s political system, no matter its faults could also be, is taken into account among the many finest on this planet, significantly when it comes to freedom and effectiveness,” Garrett stated.
“That’s as a result of it really works to all people’s pursuits, regardless of who you vote for.”
Midnight Oil are advocates of the Uluru Assertion from the Coronary heart, and beforehand referred to as on the previous prime minister to contemplate enshrining an Indigenous voice to parliament within the Structure.
“It was actually irritating to see the voice to parliament proposal kicked round like a political soccer over the previous few years,” Garrett stated.
He hopes the voice will come to be recognised as a good and cheap step by most Australians, much like the way in which same-sex marriage was embraced.
The band, whose thirteenth album Resist debuted at No.1 in February, are on their remaining tour, and have performed Europe and North America for a lot of the previous 12 months.
Garrett referred to as the Mundi Mundi gig a “full-circle second”, as a result of the band returned to the placement greater than three many years after filming the music video for his or her 1987 hit, Beds Are Burning, on the identical pink dust plains.
“It’s unbelievable to be again in that very same place, taking part in once more and figuring out the folks have come from throughout Australia to basically be out in huge sky nation listening to the Oils play,” Garrett stated.
He stated that whereas the band members have been hitting their stride throughout the tour, after greater than 35 years on the street Midnight Oil needed to name time on that a part of their profession earlier than destiny intervened.
“We’d be fooling ourselves if we thought that we may go on at this tempo with this stage of depth, placing as a lot into the reveals as we’re placing in now,” Garrett stated.
About 9000 individuals are anticipated to attend the Mundi Mundi Bash, which ends on Saturday.
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