Tracee Hutchison
Tracee Hutchison | |
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Hutchison in 2026 | |
| Born | 1962 or 1963 (age 63–64) Rosebud, Australia |
| Occupations | TV broadcaster, writer |
| Website | www |
Tracee Hutchison (born 1962 or 1963) is an Australian writer and TV and radio broadcaster. She contested the 2026 Nepean state by-election as an independent candidate.
Early life
Hutchison was born in Rosebud, Victoria in 1962 or 1963, and attended Toorak College, Mount Eliza on a scholarship.[1]
Career
Hutchison was presenter on The Australian Music Show from 1986, for Triple J.[2]
In 1990 she featured 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).[3] She began her broadcast career at 2SER in Sydney as host of the Australian Independent Music Show.[4][5]
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[6] 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.[7] 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[8] 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,[9] 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.[10]
Hutchison has written on social justice issues,[11][12] environment[13] and indigenous issues,[14] she was commissioned by The Black Arm Band to write an essay on the history of Aboriginal music for the Hidden Republic[15] performance as part of the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival. At the 2019 Australian federal election, Hutchison considered standing as a candidate for the Labor Party in the division of Flinders, but held concerns over the Victorian Labor Party's support at the time for a liquefied natural gas import terminal at Crib Point.[1]
Hutchison stood as an independent candidate in the 2026 Nepean state by-election, and was endorsed by the group Independents for Mornington Peninsula.[1] She was unsuccessful.[16]
Hutchison was interviewed in 2015 by Lawrie Zion, about her career and journalism as a whole. The recording of this interview can be found at the National Library of Australia.[17]
Writer
In 1995 she wrote and starred in her debut one-woman show I Forgive Catriona Rowntree,[18] at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
References
- ^ a b c Smethurst, Annika (9 March 2026). "The former triple j host targeting major-party discontent in state byelection". The Age. Archived from the original on 10 March 2026. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
- ^ "Tracee Hutchison / broadcaster / writer / civil celebrant". traceehutchison.com. Retrieved 1 October 2025.
- ^ Hutchison, Tracee (1992), Your name's on the door : 10 years of Australian music / Tracee Hutchison, ABC Enterprises
- ^ "Issue No. 62 (February 1985)". Trove. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
- ^ Patterson, Sarah (6 October 2022). "2SER brings back the family for Radiothon 2022". Radio Today. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
- ^ Silverchair Recovery Special on YouTube
- ^ "The Wedge" (PDF), Stiletto, 1986
- ^ Down and out in Melbourne and Rosebud, By Tracee Hutchison, 12 May 2005, The Age
- ^ From raisin' hell to raisin muffins – musicians bare their kitchen selves, 23 November 2002, smh.com.au
- ^ Kitchen Capers, By Claire Halliday, 10 April 2007, Epicure – Entertainment – theage.com.au
- ^ Time to remember the Tampa debacle, By Tracee Hutchison, 25 August 2007, The Age
- ^ No. 06024PT: The forgotten man, By Tracee Hutchison, 22 July 2006, The Age
- ^ A possum stares extinction in the face, By Tracee Hutchison, 18 February 2006, The Age
- ^ The Long Walk – 'Crying for the place we could become'- The Age 2 June 2007 Archived 5 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Black Arm Band 'Hidden Republic' essay (download PDF) Archived 30 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Brown, Melissa (2 May 2026). "Anthony Marsh wins Nepean by-election, retaining seat for Liberal Party". ABC News. Archived from the original on 2 May 2026. Retrieved 2 May 2026.
- ^ Hutchison, T.; Zion, L. (interviewer) (2015). Tracee Hutchison interviewed by Lawrie Zion in the Mass redundancies and the future of Australian journalism oral history project, National Library of Australia, Retrieved 20 April 2026.
- ^ I Forgive Catriona Rowntree Review, 26 September 2005, The Age