Biography

Parliamentary service

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

Committee service

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

Party positions

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

Personal

• Born 9.2.1944, New Plymouth, New Zealand
• 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 Publishers, Australia: 1986.
• AIDS: Most of the Questions, Some of the Answers, Bay Street Publishing, 1987.
• Death in Paradise, HarperCollins Publishers, Australia: 1989.
• The Derryn Hinch Diet, Penguin Books Australia, 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.