The Midnight Oil frontman might be 70,but you wouldn’t know it from this galvanising show behind a new solo record.
A new documentary details the steps a community took to save a beloved asset.
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.
The former Labor cabinet minister and Midnight Oil frontman delivered a withering critique of Australia’s decision to acquire nuclear-powered submarines.
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”.
25 years ago,footballers,comics,musos,religious leaders,environmentalists and former politicians sat together in a smoky band room of St Kilda’s Prince of Wales Hotel to launch an armband campaign supporting Indigenous land rights.
The “10 to 1” album that thrust the Oils into the global spotlight is taking centre stage.
The Oils frontman and former Labor minister is watching the election closely.
It is something both sides of politics do:recruit high-profile candidates to attract the attention of voters who might be wooed by a name they know. Kristina Keneally and Andrew Charlton are just the latest examples,but they have stirred debate about Labor’s commitment to diversity.
This week our reviewers listen to Midnight Oil’s Resist,Methyl Ethel’s Are You Haunted? and Beach House’s Once Twice Melody.
Midnight Oil will tour no more after next year. But it’s not the end for the band – not yet,anyway. Probably.