‘Beyond reform’: Greens co-founder Drew Hutton reveals why he quit the party after more than 30 years
Australian Greens co-founder Drew Hutton has revealed what drove him to quit the party after more than 30 years, telling Sky News he now considers them to be “beyond reform”.
Patrick Hannaford
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June 6, 2026 - 6:25AM
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‘They just froze me out’: Greens co-founder opens up about resignation from party
‘They just froze me out’: Greens co-founder opens up about resignation from party
Australian Greens co-founder Drew Hutton reflects on his decision to resign from the party...
Australian Greens co-founder Drew Hutton has revealed what drove him to finally quit the party he helped set up more than 30 years ago.
Mr Hutton quit the Greens on Wednesday, telling the party leadership that while he still believed in “Green politics”, he had been left with no choice but to resign his membership.
“I’m very sad about this as the Greens was a major part of my life’s work. However, their support for gender extremism, their rejection of freedom of speech and their refusal to see the world in any other terms than the narrow class bubble they are in meant I had little choice,” he wrote in a post on Facebook.
The 79-year-old environmental activist played a crucial role in the formation of the Queensland Greens before co-founding the Australian Greens with former leader Bob Brown in the early 1990s.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/beyond-reform-greens-cofounder-drew-hutton-reveals-why-he-quit-the-party-after-more-than-30-years/news-story/8bdbe9e4fb582cb3d833054ec6b47999
