Tracee Hutchison (born ) 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 , and attended Toorak College, Mount Eliza on a scholarship.
Career Hutchison was presenter on The Australian Music Show from 1986, for Triple J.
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). She began her broadcast career at 2SER in Sydney as host of the Australian Independent Music Show.
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 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. 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 AgeDown and out in Melbourne and Rosebud, By Tracee Hutchison, 12 May 2005, The 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 & Ruby Hunter and Ed Kuepper and their favorite recipes,From raisin' hell to raisin muffins – musicians bare their kitchen selves, 23 November 2002, smh.com.au 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.Kitchen Capers, By Claire Halliday, 10 April 2007, Epicure – Entertainment – theage.com.au
Hutchison has written on social justice issues,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 environmentA possum stares extinction in the face, By Tracee Hutchison, 18 February 2006, The Age and indigenous issues,The Long Walk – 'Crying for the place we could become'- The Age 2 June 2007 she was commissioned by The Black Arm Band to write an essay on the history of Aboriginal music for the Hidden RepublicThe Black Arm Band 'Hidden Republic' essay (download PDF) 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.
Hutchison stood as an independent candidate in the 2026 Nepean state by-election, and was endorsed by the group Independents for Mornington Peninsula. She was unsuccessful.
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.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.
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.
Awards and nominations Australian Women in Music Awards The Australian Women in Music Awards is an annual event that celebrates outstanding women in the Australian Music Industry who have made significant and lasting contributions in their chosen field. They commenced in 2018.
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