Beds Are Burning...
rock the fuck on!
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
THE MUSIC of Peter Garrett has always been politically charged. Now the towering, bald former singer of Midnight Oil is charged with practicing politics as Australia's new environment minister.
Garrett founded the band when he was a law student in 1973, but the semi-punk group did not achieve global fame until its 1987 track "Beds are Burning," a protest song about Aboriginal land rights in Australia. With his wild dancing and strident voice, Garrett became one of Australia's most recognizable singers until the band broke up in 2002.
A longtime environmental campaigner and advocate for Aboriginal rights, Garrett made his entry into politics in 1984 with an unsuccessful bid for the Senate as a member of the Nuclear Disarmament Party.
Alongside his singing career, Garrett also served as head of the Australian Conservation Foundation during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and sat on the international board of Greenpeace.
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