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Drew Hutton
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<h2 id="social-activist">Social activist</h2> <p>Hutton has been a social activist all his adult life. "Since 1984 I have been part of the process that has moved green politics from the margins to the mainstream of Australian political life. Along the way I have been privileged to represent the Party as a spokesperson and as a candidate. The Greens are now poised to enter that mainstream as a powerful force, representing the hopes and aspirations of many, many Australians."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="educator">Educator</h2> <p>He worked as a high school teacher and then a college lecturer from the 1960s to the 1980s. In the 1970s he joined the <a href="/facts/Opposition_to_the_U.S._involvement_in_the_Vietnam_War/Cu2MJhrr">anti-Vietnam War campaign</a> and civil liberties campaigns and in the 1980s he was active in the peace movement. Hutton became involved in campaigns on <a href="/facts/Uranium_mining_in_Australia/xbQyLeLt">uranium mining</a>, Indigenous land rights and <a href="/facts/Anti-nuclear_movement_in_Australia/1bwCPtJa">nuclear disarmament</a>. He also used his position as a teacher educator to champion peace and environmental education in schools and more democratic school environments and teaching practices.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p><p>For many years, Hutton was a lecturer at tertiary institutions in <a href="/facts/South_East_Queensland/LH78kYhM">South East Queensland</a> including <a href="/facts/Queensland_University_of_Technology/TBR8BWGX">Queensland University of Technology</a> (QUT) and <a href="/facts/University_of_Southern_Queensland/gSvW7yo4">University of Southern Queensland</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> Hutton has published books and numerous articles, especially on green philosophy, history and ethics. He brought together the first book on green politics in Australia in 1987 and with his partner <a href="/facts/Libby_Connors/VAzIhpau">Libby Connors</a> wrote <i>A History of the Australian Environment Movement</i> published by <a href="/facts/Cambridge_University_Press/fgEBSSRq">Cambridge University Press</a> in 1999.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> Hutton and Connors married in 1986, and have two adult sons. </p> <h2 id="organiser">Organiser</h2> <p>Over the last 29 years Hutton has been a key organiser or spokesperson for campaigns against freeways, the storage and transport of hazardous waste, against evictions of poorer residents in inner-city Brisbane suburbs, nuclear disarmament, public transport and marijuana legalisation.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> He fought against the <a href="/facts/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen/Ioj9xhp1">Bjelke-Petersen</a> government and ended up in court on many occasions as a result.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p><p>Hutton's work against pollution resulted in a 1994 <a href="/facts/Criminal_Justice_Commission_(Australia)/kSjQ8IkR">Criminal Justice Commission</a> inquiry into toxic waste dumping in Queensland, an inquiry which highlighted massive problems and led to pressure on the <a href="/facts/Wayne_Goss_Government/rEmSPBtM">Wayne Goss Government</a> to introduce the Environmental Protection Act. He has been active on many environmental campaigns such as land clearing and was involved in the campaign against the <a href="/facts/War_in_Iraq/dlAgf8at">war in Iraq</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> Hutton's highest vote as a candidate was 25.64% in the ward of <a href="/facts/Woolloongabba/sBktWYBL">The Gabba</a> in the 2008 <a href="/facts/Brisbane_City_Council/BDE6FIxW">Brisbane City Council</a> elections. </p> <h2 id="lock-the-gate-alliance">Lock the Gate Alliance</h2> <p>In June 2011, Hutton was elected president of the Lock the Gate Alliance, an organisation he helped establish the previous year. On 9 December 2011 Hutton was found guilty in the Dalby Magistrates Court of 'obstructing a <a href="/facts/Coal_seam_gas/2uRWPWpE">coal seam gas</a> company without reasonable excuse' under s804 of the <i>Petroleum and Gas Act</i>. </p><p>He was protesting against the <a href="/facts/Queensland_Gas_Company/K4HaYQ1w">Queensland Gas Company</a> entering a property in Queensland's <a href="/facts/Darling_Downs/EflNncz6">Darling Downs</a> when he was arrested in March of that year.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> Hutton has seen the Lock the Gate Alliance member base grow to represent over 30,000 individuals and 280 communities nationwide, and has become a regular spokesperson on the impacts of invasive mining activities on agricultural land, water resources, regional communities and ecologically sensitive areas. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Queensland portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Australian_Greens/Huf8kqPz">Australian Greens</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/2004_Australian_Greens_candidates/6PnGQCRv">2004 Australian Greens candidates</a></li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li> Hutton, Drew. <i>Mining: the Queensland Way / Drew Hutton</i>. At a Glance Pty Ltd, 2013. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780980442328</li> <li> Hutton, Drew. <i>“Lessons from the Lock the Gate Movement.”</i> Social Alternatives, vol. 31, no. 1, 2012, pp. 15–19. <a href="/facts/ISSN_(identifier)/DPAflDvU">ISSN</a> <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0155-0306">0155-0306</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.greenupbrisbane.net/drew-hutton-for-the-gabba.html">Drew Hutton for The Gabba</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110723140328/http://www.greenupbrisbane.net/drew-hutton-for-the-gabba.html">Archived</a> 23 July 2011 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521450764">History of the Australian Environment Movement - by Drew Hutton, Libby Connors (Cambridge University Press)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110223072316/http://qld.greens.org.au/about-us/about-us">Queensland Greens - About Us</a></li> <li><a href="http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/39153/20040814-0000/www.greens.org.au/drewhutton/drewhutton.html">Drew Hutton for the Senate (Qld)</a> 14 August 2004</li> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=584519041&ref=ts">Drew Hutton's Facebook profile</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.myspace.com/greenupbrisbane">Drew Hutton's Myspace profile</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/austory/specials/lockmeaway/default.htm">Drew Hutton on Australian Story</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/23/drew-hutton-how-he-galvanised-the-greens-and-his-unlikely-alliance-with-alan-jones">Drew Hutton, how he galvanised the Greens and his unlikely alliance with Alan Jones</a></li> <li><a href="https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/tqqf2h/alma99183596198102061">Drew Hutton and Adrian Skerritt: Our radical past: protest in 60s and 70s Brisbane</a> oral history, <a href="/facts/State_Library_of_Queensland/smBQo3We">State Library of Queensland</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Drew Hutton for the Senate (Qld)". 14 August 2004. Archived from the original on 13 August 2004. Retrieved 31 August 2017. <a href="https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040813140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/39153/20040814-0000/www.greens.org.au/drewhutton/drewhutton.html" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040813140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/39153/20040814-0000/www.greens.org.au/drewhutton/drewhutton.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Drew Hutton for the Senate (Qld)". 14 August 2004. Archived from the original on 13 August 2004. Retrieved 31 August 2017. <a href="https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040813140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/39153/20040814-0000/www.greens.org.au/drewhutton/drewhutton.html" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040813140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/39153/20040814-0000/www.greens.org.au/drewhutton/drewhutton.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Drew Hutton for the Gabba Archived 23 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, greenupbrisbane.net; accessed 31 August 2017. <a href="http://www.greenupbrisbane.net/drew-hutton-for-the-gabba.html" target="_blank">http://www.greenupbrisbane.net/drew-hutton-for-the-gabba.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Drew Hutton; Libby Connors. "History of the Australian Environment Movement". Retrieved 13 March 2008. <a href="http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521450764" target="_blank">http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521450764</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Greens appeal for uniform cannabis laws". ABC. 2004. <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-05-02/greens-appeal-for-uniform-cannabis-laws/179336" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-05-02/greens-appeal-for-uniform-cannabis-laws/179336</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Drew Hutton for the Senate (Qld)". 14 August 2004. Archived from the original on 13 August 2004. Retrieved 31 August 2017. <a href="https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040813140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/39153/20040814-0000/www.greens.org.au/drewhutton/drewhutton.html" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040813140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/39153/20040814-0000/www.greens.org.au/drewhutton/drewhutton.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Greens' Hutton to commemorate Joh protests". ABC News. 27 April 2005. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. <a href="https://archive.today/20120801215339/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2005/04/27/1354196.htm" target="_blank">https://archive.today/20120801215339/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2005/04/27/1354196.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Drew Hutton for the Senate (Qld)". 14 August 2004. Archived from the original on 13 August 2004. Retrieved 31 August 2017. <a href="https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040813140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/39153/20040814-0000/www.greens.org.au/drewhutton/drewhutton.html" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040813140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/39153/20040814-0000/www.greens.org.au/drewhutton/drewhutton.html</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"Hutton guilty of obstructing gas company". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 8 December 2011. <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-08/drew-hutton-guilty/3720914" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-08/drew-hutton-guilty/3720914</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>