13 Facts About Drew Hutton

Peter Drew Hutton was born on 1947 and is an Australian activist, academic, campaigner and past political candidate.

Drew Hutton has been a social activist all his adult life.

Drew Hutton worked as a high school teacher and then a college lecturer from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Drew Hutton became involved in campaigns on uranium mining, Indigenous land rights and nuclear disarmament.

Drew Hutton used his position as a teacher educator to champion peace and environmental education in schools and more democratic school environments and teaching practices.

For many years, Drew Hutton was a lecturer at tertiary institutions in South East Queensland including Queensland University of Technology and University of Southern Queensland.

Drew Hutton has published books and numerous articles, especially on green philosophy, history and ethics.

Drew Hutton brought together the first book on green politics in Australia in 1987 and with his partner Libby Connors wrote A History of the Australian Environment Movement published by Cambridge University Press in 1999.

Drew Hutton fought against the Bjelke-Petersen government and ended up in court on many occasions as a result.

Drew Hutton has been active on many environmental campaigns such as land clearing and was involved in the campaign against the war in Iraq.

In June 2011, Drew Hutton was elected president of the Lock the Gate Alliance, an organisation he helped establish the previous year.

On 9 December 2011 Drew Hutton was found guilty in the Dalby Magistrates Court of 'obstructing a coal seam gas company without reasonable excuse' under s804 of the Petroleum and Gas Act.

Drew 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.