Peter Garrett biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Peter Garrett

Author Name:

Peter Garrett

Born As:

Peter Robert Garrett

Other Names:

Peter Robert Garrett AM, MP, BA, LLB.

Born:

16 Apr 1953

Died:





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Singer, songwriter, politician and social commentator                          
                          
Wife Doris Ricono-Garrett , three children.                          
Lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil from 1973 until its disbanding in 2002.

Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives for the seat of Kingsford Smith, New South Wales, since October 2004.

Appointed Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts by then Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd - 2007

Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts - 2010

President of the Australian Conservation Foundation  - 1989–93, 1998–2004

Garrett attended Barker College in Hornsby

Awarded the Australian Humanitarian Foundation Award in the Environment  - 2000

Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of New South Wales - 2001

Australian National University
 - BA
Law at the University of New South Wales - LLB.
                          
 At the closing ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the group performed before Prime Minister John Howard and a television audience of hundreds of millions, wearing black tracksuits bearing the word 'sorry'. This referred to the Howard Government's refusal to apologise to Aboriginal Australians for the former policy of removing of Aboriginal children from their families.

Peter's first attempt at entering politics was in 1984, when the Nuclear Disarmament Party invited him to stand for a New South Wales seat in the Australian Senate at the federal election in December. After consulting the band, he agreed on condition that he head the ticket. He needed 12.5% of the vote to win a seat in the Senate voting system, but a primary vote of 9.6% was insufficient because Labor gave its preferences to the conservative Liberal and National Parties ahead of the NDP.