Twenty years ago Midnight Oil sang out to Exxon Oil executives in New York City. With the latest oil spill not stopping, who’s going to save us now, asks < Stuart Nettle?
Midnight Oil
Fake Steve Fielding: The devil and Peter Garrett
“You can take the devil music out of the boy but you can’t take the boy out of the devil music” says Fake Steve Fielding: Peter Garrett brought rock and roll into Parliament — and now four tradesmen are dead.
Video of the Day: Lily Allen, Jet Li and Kofi Annan sing ‘Beds are Burning’
A diverse group of musicians and celebrities have lent their voices to a cover of Midnight Oil’s classic ‘Beds are Burning’ in a musical petition calling for “climate justice” at Copenhagen.
Leave Peter Garrett alone
It would have been easy for Garrett to remain a musician and head of the Australian Conservation Foundation, or join the Greens. Instead, he went for the tough option. Cut him some slack.
