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The competition is now in its fourth year. Since entering Parliament in 2004, Peter Garrett has largely put down the microphone to concentrate on his political career, but that has not stopped him picking up a camera to channel some creativity.

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FOR THOSE OF US who are petrified at the thought of getting up in front of a roomful of strangers to sing, the idea of karaoke is enough to make us stay home in our pajamas.

Often lampooned and in recent times the man himself will declare himself greatly misunderstood.

Whilst traveling between the Flinders Rangers and Burra in South Australia we came across this ruin, one of many in this rural area.

A former rock singer who became an Australian government minister says he now realises how hard it is to achieve progress through politics.

FORMER Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst has hit out at the states plans to dam the Mary Valley a project his former bandmate Peter Garrett will have final say on as Federal Environment Minister.

I am irritated, therefore I blog. You probably recall, or have heard, "Beds Are Burning," the whomping thwomping 1987 number from the whomping thwomping politically-engaged Australian band, Midnight Oil .

In June Havas Worldwide joined forces with Kofi Annan and Bob Geldof to launch "Tck Tck Tck: Time for Climate Justice" - an open-source campaign to galvanise the public and world leaders ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December.

Vocalist Klaus Meine of German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS is one of 55 world celebrities who have joined in recording a song to draw attention to the global warming crisis.

WEARING Salvador Dali lovers are no longer roaming around the NGV but now we turn to another nomadic experience: an Aboriginal art project called Nomad Two Worlds being previewed tonight in the Great Hall.

Australians are flocking to the country's most famous landmark so they can climb it while they are still allowed.

Standing beside a new $21 million viewing platform in a previously closed corner of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, the former Midnight Oil frontman said he had never made the climb in several visits to the rock and never intended to.

Kofi Annan launches - Beds Are Burning' Global Musical Petition to demand climate justice with Melanie Laurent and Havas Worldwide CEO, David Jones & The:Hours - First ever global musical petition created to mobilise people to pressure their leaders to agree a climate justice deal at the UN's Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December.

Politicians and music will always be like oil and water but it's still funny when the two ideas mix.

Milla Jovovich and Marion Cotillard among the stars covering Eighties classic Beds are Burning for climate justice Milla Jovovich and Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard are among the eco-friendly stars who have recorded a cover of Midnight Oil's Beds are Burning to demand climate justice.

Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Thursday that he doesn't want to contemplate failure by world leaders to reach a global accord on fighting climate change at U.N. talks in Copenhagen in December.

A young Aboriginal dance group called the "Red Bundaars" practise at sunset near the New South Wales town of Gunnedah.

TOURISTS may have killed off a rare species of shrimp by relieving themselves on Australia's iconic Uluru, or Ayers Rock, according to a report.

DURAN Duran, Lily Allen and Bob Geldof are among 60 musicians who have recorded a 'Band Aid'-style song to raise awareness of climate change.