The lofty Australian Peter Garrett has strode many a stage, whether as frontsman for the band Midnight Oil, Labour Party minister, or environmental and social justice campaigner. In the past he has argued that Australia would be transformed if music were at its centre. His memoir Big Blue Sky provides the starting point for a conversation with Greenpeace executive director Russel Norman about more personal transformations, staying staunch and, if the audience is lucky, the alleged megalomania of Kevin Rudd.

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