Politician returns to stage for bushfire benefit

March 11, 2009 Australian politician Peter Garrett reunites with his rock band Midnight Oil on Thursday to warm up for a bushfires benefit concert, vowing not to shy away from the politically charged songs of his activist era. The lanky, bald Garrett, 55, was the lead singer of Midnight Oil for 26 years, swaying the hearts and minds of a generation as he jerkily danced and railed against U.S. foreign policies and corporate greed and for indigenous rights and the environment. [...] Garrett quit music in 2002 for politics, winning a seat in the Australian parliament in 2004 for the center-left Labor Party.

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