Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the Senate for Victoria 2016. Defeated at general elections 2019.

Committee service

• Joint Select: Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse served as Chair from 19.6.2017 to 2.4.2019
• Senate Select: Red Tape served from 9.11.2016 to 9.2.2017; Fair Dinkum Power served from 28.11.2018 to 28.6.2019

Parliamentary party positions

• Derryn Hinch's Justice Party. Served: 02.07.2016 to 30.06.2019

Party positions

• Leader of Derryn Hinch's Justice Party from 2015 to 2016.

Personal

• Born: 9.2.1944, New Plymouth, New Zealand
• Gender: Male
• Marital Status: Partner

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• Journalist from 1961.

Honours

• Awarded the Variety International Presidential Citation, 2006.

Publications

• The Scrabble Book, Pan MacMillan, 1972.
• The Scrabble Book (revised edition), 1977.
• Death at Newport, HarperCollins, Australia, 1986.
• AIDS: Most of the Questions, Some of the Answers, Bay Street Publishing, 1987.
• Death in Paradise, HarperCollins, Australia, 1989.
• The Derryn Hinch Diet, Penguin Books, 1991.
• That's Life, Penguin Books, 1992.
• The fall and rise of Derryn Hinch: how I hit the wall and didn't bleed, Hardie Grant Books, South Yarra, Vic., 2004.
• You Are So Beautiful: The Pleasure and Pain of Relationships, Margaret Gee Publishing, 2006.
• I Beat the Booze and You Can Too, Cocoon Lodge, 2009.
• Human headlines: my 50 years in the media, Cocoon Lodge, Melbourne: 2010.
• A human deadline: a story of life, death, hope and house arrest, Cocoon Lodge, Melbourne: 2012.
• Hinch vs Canberra: behind the human headlines, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic.: 2017.
• Unfinished business: life of a senator, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic.: 2020.
• Coping: life, illness, grief, heartbreak, unemployment, Hardie Grant Books, Richmond, Vic.: 2021.
• The new Hinch diet book: lose weight, live longer, I did, Heads and Tales, Richmond, Vic.: 2022.
• Short stories: from a murder mystery, to a man who never was, Hardie Grant Australia, South Yarra, Vic: 2023.