Through the 1980s, Peter Garrett and his band, Midnight Oil, were widely regarded as in the vanguard of recognition of Australian Aboriginal land rights and environmental protection. But no longer. As Australian Federal government Environment Minister, Garrett has now said he will permit expansion of UK-Swiss company, Xstrata’s, McArthur River lead- zinc mine, even though last month the government’s own Federal Court ruled it invalid.
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