Speeches First speech Browse all speeches (Hansard) 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 2.4.2019Senate Select: Red Tape served from 9.11.2016 to 9.2.2017; Fair Dinkum Power served from 28.11.2018 to 28.6.2019 Party positions Leader of Derryn Hinch's Justice Party from 2015 to 2016. Personal Born: 9.2.1944, New Plymouth, New ZealandGender: MaleMarital Status: Partner Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament Journalist from 1961. Honours 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, 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, 2010.A Human Deadline: A Story of Life, Death, Hope and House Arrest, Cocoon Lodge, 2012.