[1] Andrea Stretton began her major network broadcasting career in 1985 when she took a job with SBS Radio.
[1] Stretton went on to present on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Sunday Afternoon, a network arts program, from 1998 until 2001.
[1] Stretton's interest in the arts also extended into the publishing world as a long time book reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
[3] Stretton died of lung cancer at Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick on 16 November 2007 at the age of 55.
[1] Her funeral, which was held at St Canice's Roman Catholic Church in Sydney, included readings from the Tibetan Book of the Dead and T. S.