Editing Earth and Sun and Moon (section)

==Background==
[[Midnight Oil]]'s ''Earth and Sun and Moon'' album, produced with [[Nick Launay]], was released in April 1993 and peaked at No.&nbsp;2 on the [[ARIA Charts|ARIA Albums Chart]],<ref name="AusCharts">{{cite web|url=http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Midnight+Oil |title=Midnight Oil discography |publisher=Australian Charts Portal |access-date=19 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101029102343/http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Midnight+Oil |archive-date=29 October 2010}}</ref> top 20 in Sweden and Switzerland,<ref name="EarthSunA">{{cite web|url=http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?key=1599&cat=a|title=''Earth and Sun and Moon'' album charting |publisher=Australian Charts Portal |access-date=19 March 2013 }}</ref> top 50 on [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]],<ref name="BillS">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p4911|pure_url=yes}} |title=Midnight Oil – Charts & Awards – ''Billboard'' Albums |work=Allmusic |access-date=19 March 2013 }}</ref> and top 30 in the UK albums chart.<ref name="UKCharts">{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artists/ |title=The Official Charts Company Midnight Oil |publisher=[[Official Charts Company]] |access-date=19 March 2013}}</ref> The single "[[Truganini (song)|Truganini]]" referenced multiple issues, including [[Truganini|the 'last' Tasmanian Aboriginal]], the treatment of indigenous artist [[Albert Namatjira]], the [[Australian flag debate]], and [[Republicanism in Australia|republicanism]].<ref name="Vellutini">{{cite journal |url=http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?apply=scholars&webpage=default&flexedit=&flex_password=&menu_label=&menuID=62&menubox=&scholar=76 |last=Vellutini |first=Laetitia |title=Finding a voice on indigenous issues: Midnight Oil's inappropriate appropriation |via=The Australian Public Intellectual Network |journal=Journal of Australian Studies |volume=27 |issue=79 |pages=127–133 |date=January 2003
|doi=10.1080/14443050309387893 |s2cid=143645628 |access-date=19 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309212710/http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?apply=scholars&webpage=default&flexedit=&flex_password=&menu_label=&menuID=62&menubox=&scholar=76 |archive-date=2014-03-09}}</ref> Liner notes for the single claimed "Truganini was the sole surviving Tasmanian Aborigine, the last of her race, when she died in 1876."<ref name="Vellutini"/>

The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, representing over 7000 contemporary Tasmanians, called for the single to be boycotted as it perpetuated a 'white' myth about the extinction of [[Tasmanian Aborigines]].<ref name="Vellutini"/> Their Native Title claims hinged upon establishing links with ancestral lands. Gary Morris, their manager, responded with, "My suggestion to these people is to stop shooting themselves in the foot and let a band like Midnight Oil voice its appeal to White Australia on behalf of Black Australia".<ref name="Vellutini"/>

Critics contended that Morris disparaged Indigenous Australians' ability to represent themselves and overestimated Midnight Oil's ambassadorial powers while diminishing their errors, while some indigenous activists saw benefit in Midnight Oil's highlighting of the issues.<ref name="Vellutini"/> "Truganini" released in March peaked at No.&nbsp;10 on the ARIA singles charts,<ref name="AusCharts"/> No.&nbsp;10 on ''Billboard'' Mainstream Rock Tracks and No.&nbsp;4 on their Modern Rock Tracks charts,<ref name="BillS"/> and top 30 for the UK charts.<ref name="UKCharts"/>