CANBERRA: Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett is tonight denying that he has backflipped on his personal beliefs by approving a new uranium mine in South Australia.Mr Garret said his well known opposition to uranium mines as the lead singer of Midnight Oil was a non-core value.
The former rock star said that he has re-evaluated many of his beliefs since arriving in Federal Parliament, and this has led to speculation that Midnight Oil will re-release versions of several well known protest songs.
Mr Garrett is now questioning whether the apology to the Stolen Generation was really appropriate, and said he believes that James Hardie has done more than enough for asbestos victims.
"It's clear to me now that the US-Australia alliance is an important part to getting Labor re-elected, and as such I now love it," said Mr Garrett.
"It's also clear to me that the executives at Exxon are really quite a nice bunch of chaps, especially since they've donated heavily to the Labor Party."
Mr Garrett will push for a re-release of Midnight Oil's hit song US Forces, opening with the line 'US Forces give the nod / it's really quite a nice thing'.
The song Beds Are Burning, cited by former Primer Minister John Howard as his favourite Midnight Oil song, is also tipped to be re-released with the lines 'we can sleep very well while our beds are burning'.
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