WIND BACK WEDNESDAY AT ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT OIL
This week sees the release of a film, Midnight Oil 1984, that captures the band seemingly at the height of its powers and simultaneously contemplating their end, as lead singer Peter Garrett stood for a senate seat as the Nuclear Disarmament Party candidate in NSW. He missed out – though only just – the band stayed together, and they made more stellar albums and important statements, political and social. However, as Wind Back Wednesday remembers, 18 years after that first ne