Midnight Oil singer to run for election
The rock singer and environmentalist who was front man for Australian rock band Midnight Oil announced this morning he will run for Parliament on the opposition Australian Labor Party’s ticket in elections expected later this year.
Peter Garrett, aged 51, ended days of speculation over his political plans, saying he was accepting Labor’s invitation to be a candidate but that the decision to join mainstream politics wasn’t easy.
“Politics is an imperfect game. We all know that. We see it on television stations every night and yet it’s the best game we have for making the country work better,” Garrett told reporters in Sydney.
