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Radio Birdman on their last shows – and their legacy: ‘It’s a bit of a wank to acknowledge all that’

Announcing their (allegedly) final tour, the Australian band look back on a career that inspired Midnight Oil and the Hoodoo Gurus – and provoked some ‘extreme reactions’

The Guardian - AU

Voice, treaty … and T-shirts: why Anthony Albanese is struggling to sidestep the referendum scare campaign

The prime minister began his week with a joke about his Midnight Oil T-shirt – but it got less and less funny as the days went by

The Guardian - AU

Ex-Labor minister Peter Garrett brands AUKUS submarine pact ‘riskiest decision’ any government has made

Former Labor cabinet minister and Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett has again condemned Australia's security deal with the US and UK

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Newcomers Where's Jimmy go faster, harder

They are cut from the same cloth as AC/DC and Midnight Oil

Newcastle Herald

Ex-UK defence chiefs warn AUKUS could end in disaster

Midnight Oil frontman and ex-UK defence chiefs the latest to question the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines deal

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Crighton and Stringer find the good oil in golden collab

WILLIAM Crighton's friendship with fellow singer-songwriter Liz Stringer was forged while hanging out together in Germany and France on Midnight Oil's farewell tour last year.

Newcastle Herald

Year in review: Live music makes killer comeback in 2022

2022 is the year music returned in a blaze of glory.

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Daniel Johns and William Crighton nominated for ARIAs

The comeback of Silverchair legend Daniel Johns appears complete and Cessnock singer-songwriter William Crighton has reached new heights, after they were nominated for ARIA awards.

Newcastle Herald

Midnight Oil's Mundi Mundi Bash gig a dream come true for Broken Hill didgeridoo player

Worimi and Minjinbul man Cory Poulson started playing the didgeridoo at 11 when his father told him to put his lips to the instrument and "blow a raspberry". This week, he played his biggest gig at the Mundi Mundi Bash.

ABC News

Sailing down the Stuart Highway, Guts Touring revives the Blackfella/Whitefella spirit

In the year Midnight Oil plays its farewell tour, another group of musicians is taking inspiration from the Oils' iconic 1986 'Blackfella/Whitefella' tour with the Warumpi Band, touring from the Top End all the way down to Tasmania.

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Morning mail: ‘Jobs for mates’ report, Europe’s scorcher, Cameron Smith wins the Open

Monday: A new report lays bare the chumocracy behind appointments to public boards, tribunals, advisory councils and agencies. Plus: Australian golfer produces a sensational final round

The Guardian - AU

Midnight Oil: their 20 greatest songs – sorted

Since 1978, Midnight Oil have made 13 studio albums, two studio EPs and innumerable odds and sods. Here, Oils fan Andrew Stafford has a go at picking the dream set list

The Guardian - AU

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.

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The Canberra Times

'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

'The power, the passion, the disappointment': Midnight Oil concert canned last minute

Turns out the beds and the Midnight Oil can't burn in all this rain.

The Guardian - AU

Camp Cope, Chris Cheney and Beckah Amani: Australia’s best new music for April

Each month we add 20 new songs to our Spotify playlist. Read about 10 of our favourites here – and subscribe on Spotify, which updates with the full list at the start of each month

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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.

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'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.

The Guardian - AU

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

Newcastle Herald

William Crighton to open Midnight Oil show in Newcastle

In a very timely announcement, William Crighton has been named by Midnight Oil to open their Resist:The Final Tour shows at Newcastle Entertainment Centre on...

The Guardian - AU

‘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

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