Midnight Oil project aims to put Indigenous voices centre stage
4 years ago

Midnight Oil project aims to put Indigenous voices centre stage

Al Jazeera  

Veteran band working with Aboriginal performers to campaign for an Indigenous voice to Australia’s parliament. “Music is the number one education in this country,” said Indigenous musician Bunna Lawrie who has joined Midnight Oil on the project. That’s the way reconciliation should be, working together and working out things the right way.” Voice to Parliament Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst told Al Jazeera the Makarrata Project “develops many of the same themes originally explored” during the recording of Diesel and Dust and that the inclusion of an array of Indigenous artists has “lifted the songs to levels beyond anything we could have imagined”. “It is the latest attempt for the country, for Australia, to accept us and acknowledge us and give us our rightful place in this country of ours.” Yet the legal process to embed an Indigenous voice in federal parliament requires constitutional change which can only come via majority vote in a nationwide referendum. Midnight Oil released the Makarrata Project “mini-album” in October 2020, the band’s first new music release in two decades, and plans to tour the project during March.

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