Canberra

My one meeting was with David Williams who currently serves as Chief of Staff to the Minister of the Environment, Heritage and the Arts Peter Garrett. You may recognize the name as Peter Garrett is the former lead singer of the band Midnight Oil. Minister Garrett had run for Parliament on the nuclear disarmament party ticket and narrowly lost. He was then recruited to join the Labor Party, won a seat in Parliament and when Prime Minister Rudd was elected, he became a Minister. David and I spoke about the Emissions Trading Scheme, activism, political challenges, importance of climate change to Rudd Government.
I ate dinner in the City Centre, which did have a little more energy in it, but still not what you would expect in a Capitol City.