Derryn Hinch

Derryn Hinch is/was a journalist, broadcaster, author and ex-crim.

The former newspaper editor hosted the current affairs program HINCH on the 7 and 10 networks, Midday on 9 and had award-winning stints on 3AW.

  Hinch has been jailed twice, fined, and spent five months under house arrest for his campaigns against suppression orders for sex offenders.  In 2011, he received a liver transplant after being diagnosed with terminal cancer and given twelve months to live. 

He ‘jumped the shark’ in 2016 to launch Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party and was elected as a federal senator for Victoria.

He hosted HINCH Live on SKY News until his political career took off. He now writes for Crikey and appears on Sunrise, PMLive and 3AW. 

He lives (well) in Melbourne.