Peter Garrett
‘We are shattered’: Peter Garrett joins tributes as Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst dies aged 70
Hirst, the co-founder of the Oils, had been battling cancer for several years, but he kept his energy and wit to the end, friends said.
- Alexander Darling, Debbie Cuthbertson and Michael Dwyer
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Peter Garrett’s passionate play for power of the sea
Seven Mile is a small slice of the natural world, its healing qualities freely accessible to anyone who chooses to visit.
- Peter Garrett
- Opinion
- Nuclear energy
I’ve spent my life fighting nuclear. Here’s what Dutton isn’t telling you about his reactors
This deceptive proposal has all the Trumpian hallmarks: a quasi policy announcement intended to serve sectional interests – in this case fossil fuel giants.
- Peter Garrett
- Opinion
- Protests
It’s Midnight hour for ‘woke’ politics
The success of Trump has repudiated a politics that demands obedience over exchange, presumes bad faith in its opponents, and has no patience for persuasion.
- Waleed Aly
Great-grandma, teen student, doctor: Kayak activists arrested disrupting coal ships
Eight climate campaigners have been arrested after they tried to paddle through a police water checkpoint into shipping lanes at the world’s biggest coal port.
- William Ton and Jack Gramenz
- ★★★★
- 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.
- Michael Bailey
‘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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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”.
- James Massola and Matthew Knott