Tracee Hutchison

Tracee Hutchison is an Australian writer and TV and radio broadcaster.

Tracee Hutchison
Born	Rosebud, Australia
Occupation(s)	TV broadcaster, writer
Website	www.traceehutchison.com

Career

Hutchison produced and presented a series on Australian music in the 1980s for Triple J in 1990 – featuring interviews with Australian musicians including Nick Cave, Chrissy Amphlett, David McComb, Paul Kelly and Jimmy Barnes – which became her first book Your Name's on the Door – 10 Years of Australian Music (1992/ABC books).^[1] She began her broadcast career at 2SER in Sydney as host of the Australian Independent Music Show.^[2][3]

Hutchison was talent producer and scriptwriter for series 2 and 3 of RocKwiz (SBS TV) and also the series producer of nomad (SBS TV), the program that discovered Silverchair^[4] in a national demo competition in 1994.

She has also been a reporter for The 7.30 Report, hosted the ABC2 Music program DIG TV, and was a fill-in presenter for ABC News Breakfast. In 1986 Hutchison worked on the ABC magazine style television show Edge of the Wedge.^[5] She has also been a fill in presenter on ABC Radio Melbourne and ABC Radio Sydney. Her radio career began in Melbourne on community radio station 102.7fm 3RRR.

She wrote a weekly opinion column for the Saturday Age^[6] from 2005 to 2009 and conceived and edited two fund-raising cookbooks for the Mirabel Foundation: Rock Chefs for Mirabel (1992), featuring Australian musicians Tim Rogers, Tex Perkins, Deborah Conway, Archie Roach & Ruby Hunter and Ed Kuepper and their favorite recipes,^[7] and Laughing Stock – Comedy Chefs for Mirabel (2007), featuring Australian comedians Eddie Perfect, Tim Minchin, Dave Hughes, Tripod, Corinne Grant, Libby Gorr and Julia Zemiro.^[8]

Hutchison has written on social justice issues,^[9][10] environment^[11] and indigenous issues,^[12] she was commissioned by The Black Arm Band to write an essay on the history of Aboriginal music for the Hidden Republic^[13] performance as part of the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Writer

In 1995 she wrote and starred in her debut one-woman show I Forgive Catriona Rowntree,^[14] at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.