Michael Atkinson is an Australian musician and composer.

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He was a member of Redgum from 1975 to 1987. While with Redgum he wrote many of the band's songs, and with Michael Spicer, who had joined the band later as a keyboardist, also wrote the score for the film A Street to Die.^[1][2]

After leaving Redgum, he worked as a composer on Australian films, including Backlash (1986),^[1] The Last Man Hanged (1993),^[3] and the Russell Crowe film Heaven's Burning (1997),^[1] and television series, including the popular police drama Blue Heelers.^[1] His score for Stan and George's New Life was nominated for the 1991 AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score.^[4]

In 2005, with other former members of Redgum and other Australian bands reunited as John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew, he recorded Lawson, poems by Henry Lawson set to music.^[5]