Tracee Hutchison

Tracee Hutchison
Born1962 or 1963 (age 63–64)
Rosebud, Australia
OccupationsTV broadcaster, writer
Websitewww.traceehutchison.com

Tracee Hutchison (born 1962 or 1963[1]) is an Australian writer and TV and radio broadcaster. She is contesting the 2026 Nepean state by-election as an independent candidate.

Early life

Hutchison was born in Rosebud, Victoria, 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 is standing as an independent candidate in the 2026 Nepean state by-election, and is endorsed by the group Independents for Mornington Peninsula.[1]

Writer

In 1995 she wrote and starred in her debut one-woman show I Forgive Catriona Rowntree,[16] at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

References

  1. ^ a b c d 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.
  2. ^ "Tracee Hutchison / broadcaster / writer / civil celebrant". traceehutchison.com. Retrieved 1 October 2025.
  3. ^ Hutchison, Tracee; Triple J (Radio station : Melbourne, Vic.) (1992), Your name's on the door : 10 years of Australian music / Tracee Hutchison, ABC Enterprises
  4. ^ "Issue No. 62 (February 1985)". Trove. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  5. ^ Patterson, Sarah (6 October 2022). "2SER brings back the family for Radiothon 2022". Radio Today. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  6. ^ Silverchair Recovery Special on YouTube
  7. ^ "The Wedge" (PDF), Stiletto, 1986
  8. ^ Down and out in Melbourne and Rosebud, By Tracee Hutchison, 12 May 2005, The Age
  9. ^ From raisin' hell to raisin muffins – musicians bare their kitchen selves, 23 November 2002, smh.com.au
  10. ^ Kitchen Capers, By Claire Halliday, 10 April 2007, Epicure – Entertainment – theage.com.au
  11. ^ Time to remember the Tampa debacle, By Tracee Hutchison, 25 August 2007, The Age
  12. ^ No. 06024PT: The forgotten man, By Tracee Hutchison, 22 July 2006, The Age
  13. ^ A possum stares extinction in the face, By Tracee Hutchison, 18 February 2006, The Age
  14. ^ The Long Walk – 'Crying for the place we could become'- The Age 2 June 2007 Archived 5 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ The Black Arm Band 'Hidden Republic' essay (download PDF) Archived 30 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ I Forgive Catriona Rowntree Review, 26 September 2005, The Age
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