Midnight Oil frontman leads 'great Australian mission'

Peter Garrett will lean on experience in conservation and Indigenous rights as Landcare's new chair. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

Peter Garrett stands tall on the gnarled roots of a Moreton Bay fig tree and walks among the ferns in an inner-city park.

While green spaces like the reserve in Annandale, Sydney's inner-west, are part of his natural habitat, Garrett will be looking much further afield as the new chair of Landcare Australia.