September 1, 2007
It's sad to watch Peter Garrett become 'pulp mill Pete', but then he made the decision. Garrett wanted political power--to be Environment Minister--and he was willing to sacrifice his passion and environmental principles to do so. He knew what the ALP would do to him and he understood that the ALP Right had little time for his ecological politics. He was willing to pay the price.

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Still, it is sad to watch the process of destruction under the guise of 'we support the pulp mill if it is world's best environmental standards' whilst refusing to say what these best standards are.
As Bob Brown observed: "I warned Peter that when he went into the ALP they would eat him up and spit him out and that's just what's happening."Many others did the same. Power is very seductive. Garrett is now required by the ALP to attack the Greens, embrace the three-mines policy, accept US bases, defend the forest industry: thereby renouncing, one after another, the distinctive positions upon which his career was built.
Secondly, 'Peter the myth' is different from Peter the person: after all, as a fundamentalist Christian Garrett voted against stem cell research.So he is a part of the NSW Right.
Public opinion is, if anything, supporting issues on the environment which are far to the left of the ALP. Garrett is now at odds with public opinion in Tasmania.
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Yep your right...He chose his path. The music still stands up on its own though.