Geoff Hutchison has enjoyed an extraordinarily diverse career in Australian media. He has been a current affairs talkback radio host with the ABC, the national broadcaster’s European correspondent and, before that, a senior reporter for The 7.30 Report.
He has anchored election night specials, reported from war zones – where the fighting usually stopped after he arrived – has faced arrest as a potential White House intruder – trying to take a short cut back to his hotel – and has also investigated the existence of fairies at the bottom of Icelandic gardens.
Before life was that serious, he spent many years as an award-winning reporter/producer for the Nine Network’s Wide World of Sports and Sport Sunday programmes during which time he competed in the World Bog Snorkelling Championships, swam against the then world 100-metre freestyle champion Alexander Popov and auditioned at a professional wrestling school in Sacramento, California.
Not satisfied with that eclectic mix, Geoff released his first book in 2025, How Not to Become a Grumpy Old Bugger, an invitation for blokes to lead better lives as they age.
He is currently working on his second book, which invites fathers to become perfectly adequate and sometimes rather excellent version of themselves.
