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Midnight Oil to sign off on touring career

Midnight Oil will play one of the last shows of their final tour in Canberra in October, making up for a cancelled show in April.

The Canberra Times

The Wanda Beach concert was a defining moment in Australian rock music but it was almost a disaster

Organisers expected about 10,000 people but more than 25,000 turned up for the free concert. And then the rain came down.

ABC News

'Most important day': Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett greets voters at Bomaderry

After casting her vote on Election Day, Labor's incumbent Gilmore MP Fiona Phillips expressed she is feeling confident ahead of a tight race.

The Canberra Times

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The Archibald 2022 finalists: sitters speaking up to power; artists speaking back to the canon

For those seeking refuge from the election, the 101st Archibald Prize is almost a politician-free zone. Unless you count Joanna Braithwaite’s amusingly titled McManusstan, a portrait of bird lover Sally McManus. Former Labor minister Peter Garrett painted by Anh Do is in the line up – but more accurately described…

The Conversation

Midnight Oil cancels Darwin, Cairns concerts after frontman Peter Garrett tests positive for COVID

The iconic Australian band says it is "profoundly disappointed" to cancel two shows in the group's final tour.

ABC News

'We will always have the Oils': Zan Rowe on family, music and the power of Midnight Oil's final tour

When Midnight Oil took to the stage in Melbourne on Sunday night, it closed a chapter of live music history not just for the band of brothers, but for Zan Rowe's family too.

ABC News

Midnight Oil on Resist and their last ever tour: ‘We mean it, man!’

As the Australian band embarks on their final live shows, Peter Garrett and Jim Moginie reflect on loss, legacy and quitting while they’re ahead

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‘So pissed off’: Midnight Oil kick off final tour with a searing, urgent set in Launceston

Headlining the first weekend of Mona Foma festival, the band offered a rebuke of baby boomer nostalgia in a bittersweet live farewell

The Guardian - AU

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