Overview
- He died on Friday at his Melbourne home aged 82, a fact confirmed by radio station 3AW and his long-term assistant Annette Philpott.
- Hinch forged a five-decade career in newspapers, radio and television, earning the nickname the “Human Headline” and remaining a visible public figure into his 80s.
- He founded Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party and won a Senate seat in 2016, using his time in parliament to push for tougher bail rules and a publicly accessible sex-offender register.
- Hinch was convicted, fined and jailed on multiple occasions for contempt after naming alleged or convicted sex offenders in breach of suppression orders, a record that defined his polarising legacy.
- His later years were marked by serious health problems, including a 2011 liver transplant and numerous falls, and reports say infections after a bad fall contributed to his decline though that detail has not been uniformly confirmed.