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Life is very short; be willing to serve.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Life Is
Willing
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I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Chosen
Havens
Issues
Issue
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The fact is that we take music very seriously.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Seriously
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And living in Australia I am relatively well off.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Australia
Wells
Relatively
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You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Explaining
Want
Life Yourself Your
Spend
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Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Environment
Natural
Natural World
Senses
World
Convey
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At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Everyday
Fortunate
Levels
Myself More Than
Reckon
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The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Arena
People
Political
Intentions
Political Arena
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As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Smell
Feel
As Far As
Crowd
Far
Performance
Roar
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Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Climate
Climate Change
Community
Concern
Matter
Scientific
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Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Wisdom
Hard Work
People
Gifts
Work Hard
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It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Environment
Planets
Wells
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I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Significant
Song
Success Is
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I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Blame
Choices
Issues
Parent
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I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Believe
Divine
Movement
World
Believe I Believe World
World Believe Way
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Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Government
Action
Climate Change
Consistent
Huge
Issues
Strong
Change Climate Climate Change
Enduring
Governments
Change Action Climate
Issue
Requires
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Humans remain entirely atmosphere dependent, so there is no choice but to respond to extreme climatic behaviour and its many effects.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Atmosphere
Behaviour
Choices
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Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Country
Environment
Uranium Mining
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The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Australia
Challenges
Climate
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What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
County
Politician
Promise
Telling The Truth
Politicians
Generally
Promises
Serve
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Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Climate Change
Conducting
Guts
Issues
Research
Understanding
Change World Look
Change Look World
Institution
Issue
Scientific
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Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Encouraging
Government
Carbon
Decided
Details
Schemes
Trading
Discussed
Governments
Scheme
Recently
Sign
State Governments
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There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Band
Environment
Records
Health Time Good
Good Record
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The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Faith
Inspiration
Struggle
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In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Capacity
Patterns
People
Stars
Survived
Lots
Period
Pattern
Reach
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I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Believe
Brave
Increase
Quantum
Talking
Years
Knowledge Believe I Believe
Amongst
Considerably
Scientists
Speaking
Voices
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The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Capitol
Expected
May
Next
Arrive
Occasion
Sign
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It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Climate Change
Lying
People
Responsibility
Absolutely
Absolutely Not
Change Responsibility Climate
Change People Climate
Lies
Solely
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That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Crossover
Lines
Play
Real
Sell
Everybody Else
Queue
Tribe
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I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Beauty
Country
Passion
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In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Ancient
Australia
Climate
Continents
Distinctive
Geography
Particular
Patterns
Profile
Soil
Variability
Weather
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This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Space
Generations
Loss
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And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Climate Change
Interesting
Media
Terrorism
Thinking
Statistic
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The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Opportunity
Mean
Motivation
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There is job growth in renewables, there is job growth in energy efficiency and there is job growth in developing innovative industries and technologies to successfully meet the challenge of climate change.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Jobs
Technology
Challenges
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The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Civilisation
Climate Change
Fuel
Generations
Goods
Materials
People
Play
Transportation
Change Power People
Essentially
Forces
Revolve
Services
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There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Farming
Impact
Land
Range
Related
Rivers
Stressed
Affect
Associated
Communities
Crop
Impacts
Increasing
Lands
Rates
River
Systems
Temperatures
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Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Approach
Career Path
Contrary
Entertainment Industry
Path
Imaginable
Perverse
Photos
Same Time
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Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Climate
Climate Change
Cutting
Delivering
Emissions
Equitable
Needs
Obvious
Relation
Arrangement
Change Look Climate
Cuts
Urgently
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Climate change is so big that people who study it.. and many do.. need to speak to it. They must present scientific papers, they must appear in public, they must speak to the media and we must hear their voices. In order to get policy right, policymakers.. governments.. need to make decisions based on sound science.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Government
Media
Order
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But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.
Peter Garrett / Member Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Effort
Impact
Long
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