Tracee Hutchison Explained

Tracee Hutchison
Birth Place:Rosebud, Australia
Occupation:TV broadcaster, writer

Tracee Hutchison is a writer and TV and radio broadcaster.

Career

She 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).

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.

Tracee 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. 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[1] 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,[2] 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.[3]

Hutchison has written on social justice issues,[4] [5] environment[6] and indigenous issues,[7] she was commissioned by The Black Arm Band to write an essay on the history of Aboriginal music for the Hidden Republic[8] 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,[9] at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.theage.com.au/news/Opinion/Down-and-out-in-Melbourne-and-Rosebud/2005/05/11/1115585025850.html Down and out in Melbourne and Rosebud
  2. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/22/1037697872438.html From raisin' hell to raisin muffins – musicians bare their kitchen selves
  3. http://www.theage.com.au/news/epicure/kitchen-capers/2007/04/08/1175970935952.html Kitchen Capers
  4. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/08/24/1187462515471.html Time to remember the Tampa debacle
  5. http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/no-06024pt-the-forgotten-man/2006/07/21/1153166582710.html No. 06024PT: The forgotten man
  6. http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/a-possum-stares-extinction-in-the-face-/2006/02/17/1140151809030.html A possum stares extinction in the face
  7. http://www.thelongwalk.com.au/crying-for-the-place-we-could-become/242950/news-item.htm The Long Walk – 'Crying for the place we could become'- The Age 2 June 2007
  8. http://www.blackarmband.com.au/about-hidden-republic/ The Black Arm Band 'Hidden Republic' essay (download PDF)
  9. http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/basically-essential-viewing/2005/09/25/1127586741677.html I Forgive Catriona Rowntree Review