Tracee Hutchison is a writer and TV and radio broadcaster.

Career

Hutchison produced and presented a series on Australian music in the 1980s for

Triple J Triple J is an Australian government-funded national radio station founded in 1975 as a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). It aims to appeal to young listeners of alternative music, and plays far more Australian conten ...

in 1990 – featuring interviews with Australian musicians including

Nick Cave Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, writer, and actor who fronts the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Known for his baritone voice, Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety ...

, Chrissy Amphlett, David McComb, Paul Kelly and

Jimmy Barnes James Dixon Barnes ( Swan; born 28 April 1956) is an Australian rock singer. His career, both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel, has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music a ...

– which became her first book ''Your Name's on the Door – 10 Years of Australian Music'' (1992/ABC books). She began her broadcast career at

2SER 2SER is a not-for-profit radio station in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, broadcasting on the frequency 107.3 FM. It is operated by Sydney Educational Broadcasting Ltd, and co-funded by two Universities, University of Technology Sydney and Ma ...

in Sydney as host of the Australian Independent Music Show. Hutchison was talent producer and scriptwriter for series 2 and 3 of ''

RocKwiz ''RocKwiz'' is an Australian television live music trivia quiz show, focused on rock music and featuring different guest artist musicians who perform live in each episode. The show was co-created by Brian Nankervis, Peter Bain-Hogg, and Ken C ...

'' (SBS TV) and also the series producer of ''nomad'' (SBS TV), the program that discovered ''

Silverchair Silverchair was an Australian Rock music, rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Newcastle, New South Wales, with Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars, Ben Gillies on drums, and Chris Joannou on bass guitar. The group got thei ...

'' in a national demo competition in 1994. She has also been a reporter for '' The 7.30 Report'', hosted the

ABC2 ABC Family is an Australian free-to-air television channel owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and part of its ABC Television network. The channel broadcasts a range of family and teen entertainment programming. The channel oper ...

Music program ''DIG TV'', and was a fill-in presenter for ABC ''

News Breakfast ''News Breakfast'' is an Australian news breakfast television program. It is broadcast on ABC TV and ABC News channel from 6:00 am to 9:00 am AEST or AEDT on weekdays and is hosted by James Glenday and Bridget Brennan. The program is also ...

''. In 1986 Hutchison worked on the ABC magazine style television show '' Edge of the Wedge''. She has also been a fill in presenter on

ABC Radio Melbourne ABC Radio Melbourne (official List of radio station callsigns in Victoria, callsign: 3LO) is an ABC Local Radio station in Melbourne, Australia. It began transmission on 13 October 1924 and was Melbourne's second licensed radio station after Radi ...

and

ABC Radio Sydney ABC Radio Sydney (official call sign: 2BL, formerly 2SB) is an ABC radio station in Sydney, Australia. It is the flagship station in the ABC Local Radio network and broadcasts on 702 kHz on the AM dial. The station transmits with a power ( ...

. Her radio career began in Melbourne on community radio station 102.7fm 3RRR. She wrote a weekly opinion column for the '' Saturday Age'' 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 Archibald William Roach (8 January 1956 – 30 July 2022) was an Australian (Gunditjmara and Western Bundjalung people, Bundjalung) singer-songwriter and Aboriginal Australian, Aboriginal activist. Often referred to as "Uncle Archie", Roach wa ...

Ruby Hunter Ruby Charlotte Margaret Hunter (31 October 195517 February 2010), also known as Aunty Ruby, was an Aboriginal Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist, and the life and musical partner of Archie Roach. Early life Ruby Hunter was born on 31 ...

and

Ed Kuepper Edmund Kuepper (born 20 December 1955) is a German-born Australian guitarist, Singing, vocalist and songwriter. He co-founded the punk band The Saints (Australian band), The Saints in 1973, the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns (acti ...

and their favorite recipes, and ''Laughing Stock – Comedy Chefs for Mirabel'' (2007), featuring Australian comedians

Eddie Perfect Edmund Perfect (born 17 December 1977) is an Australian musician, comedian, writer and actor. Widely known for his role as Mick Holland in Channel Ten's TV series ''Offspring'' in which he performs his own music, he has recorded solo albums an ...

Tim Minchin Timothy David Minchin Order of Australia#Levels of membership, AM (born 7 October 1975) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, musician, poet, composer, and songwriter. Minchin has released six CDs, five DVDs, and live comedy shows that he ...

Dave Hughes David William Hughes is an Australian stand-up comedian, television and radio presenter. He is known for his larrikin personality, drawling Australian accent, and deadpan comedic delivery. Hughes has previously been co-host of '' Hughesy & K ...

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, Corinne Grant, Libby Gorr and Julia Zemiro. Hutchison has written on social justice issues, environment and indigenous issues, she was commissioned by The Black Arm Band to write an essay on the history of Aboriginal music for the ''Hidden Republic'' performance as part of the 2008

Melbourne International Arts Festival Melbourne International Arts Festival, formerly Spoleto Festival Melbourne – Festival of the Three Worlds, then Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, becoming commonly known as Melbourne Festival, was a major international arts festi ...

Writer

In 1995 she wrote and starred in her debut one-woman show ''I Forgive Catriona Rowntree'',''I Forgive Catriona Rowntree'' Review
26 September 2005, The Age at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hutchison, Tracee Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Australian women radio presenters Australian television presenters Australian women television presenters Triple J announcers