[1] 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[2] in a national demo competition in 1994.

In 1986 Hutchison worked on the ABC magazine style television show Edge of the Wedge.

She wrote a weekly opinion column for the Saturday Age[4] 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,[5] 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.

[6] Hutchison has written on social justice issues,[7][8] environment[9] and indigenous issues,[10] she was commissioned by The Black Arm Band to write an essay on the history of Aboriginal music for the Hidden Republic[11] performance as part of the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival.

In 1995 she wrote and starred in her debut one-woman show I Forgive Catriona Rowntree,[12] at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.