Labor MP and Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett will head a Rockin’ For Rights concert following a protest march against the federal government’s new industrial relations laws in Sydney’s CBD next month.

Aussie bands including Youth Group, The Screaming Jets, Something for Kate, You Am I and the Hoodoo Gurus will perform at the event staged by Unions NSW.

The protest rally from Hyde Park to the Sydney Cricket Ground will be held on April 22 and is limited to the first 40,000.

Punters will need to purchase a wristband for $5 to participate in the march and get access to the concert.

Wristbands are available through various stockists throughout Sydney.

“Never before has there been a more critical time to get out and rock for our rights,” said Garrett, the shadow minister for climate change, environment, heritage and arts.

Garrett will MC the concert.

“This incredible line up of Australia’s best will bring punters from far and wide whose future work experience is up for grabs under the Howard government’s Work Choices legislation,” he said.

“I reckon this will be a mighty event.”

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