‘Beds are Burning’: Midnight Oil’s Social-Justice Classic

By Oliver Tearle

Few phrases have aged more quickly or more badly in the last decade or so than ‘social justice’, but back in 1987, before it was co-opted by shouty people with cartoon avatars on social media, those two words still meant something. And ‘Beds Are Burning’, by the Australian band Midnight Oil, is a social-justice song that means something, too.

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