Andrew Butt

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  • Associate Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning, RMIT University
Demonstrations against freeway construction in Melbourne included a street barricade erected in protest at the F19 extension of the Eastern Freeway. Barricade! – the resident fight against the F19

We’re still fighting city freeways after half a century

Andrew Butt, RMIT University; Crystal Legacy, The University of Melbourne; Gerardine (Gerry) McLoughlin, Swinburne University of Technology, and Ian Woodcock, Swinburne University of Technology

Public protests eventually forced the scrapping of some proposed freeways in 1973. Today, we have another round of projects and people are protesting again, with good reason. Government should listen.
Support is growing for a ban on live export, but what will replace it? RICHARD MILNES/AAP

Can meat exports be made humane? Here are three key strategies

Andrew Butt, RMIT University; Andrew Fisher, The University of Melbourne, and Shakira Hussein, The University of Melbourne

In the face of shocking footage of animals dying on ships, it seems impossible that our live export trade will remain as it is. Here are three areas to address.
‘Chook farms ruin lives!’. Australians consume a lot of cheap chicken, but not all of them appreciate an intensive chicken factory as a neighbour. Marco Amati

Done like a chicken dinner: city fringes locked in battles over broiler farms

Elizabeth Taylor, RMIT University; Andrew Butt, La Trobe University, and Marco Amati, RMIT University

As consumption has soared and prices have fallen, the realities of industrial chicken farming often clash with the values of people who live on the urban fringes where broiler farms are sited.

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