Peter Garrett: A Life of Environmental Activism [Booked Out]

How can activism, politics and the arts create positive environmental change? Musician and environmentalist Peter Garrett considers the role of activism in creativity with author and journalist Anna Krien. 

From the lead singer of Midnight Oil, one of Australia’s most successful and politically engaged bands, to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage & the Arts in the Rudd/Gillard Labor governments, Peter Garrett has been a long-time campaigner on a range of local and global issues. Through all his work, Garrett has exemplified the power of arts and activism in fighting for positive environmental change; whether performing in protest and benefit shows globally or steering the Australian Conservation Foundation as its youngest ever president. For Spring Fling, the Wheeler Centre heads to Macedon in partnership with the inaugural Mountain Writers Festival for a detailed and diverting conversation between Garrett and award-winning author and journalist Anna Krien. Together they will reflect on Garrett’s incredible life of environmental activism, and the role art, politics and campaigning can play in creating positive, lasting change. 

This event will be photographed and recorded for use by the Wheeler Centre.

Presented in partnership with Mountain Writers Festival 

About Spring Fling

Celebrating our return to the stage and the rejuvenation of the arts and culture communities, Spring Fling is a short series of big ideas offering a delectable picnic spread of events with leading thinkers, writers and creators from Australia and abroad.

Spring Fling is supported by the Melbourne City Revitalisation Fund, a Victorian Government and City of Melbourne partnership.