Derryn Hinch, a fearless interrogator, remained candid and controversial as a journalist and senator – obituary

Twice jailed for breaching suppression orders, Hinch was relentless in his pursuit of sex offenders and was elected to the Senate on a law-and-order platformWith a timeline that featured imprisonment, politics, a rags-to-riches twist, multiple marriages and several serious health challenges, all played out in the public sphere, the Australian journalist, broadcaster and former senator Derryn Hinch embodied his nickname: the human headline.Hinch, who has died in 2026 aged 82, gained the epithet, of which he was not a fan, for his strident opinions delivered in a bombastic manner over radio and television airwaves and later, aged 72, in the halls of parliament, where he claimed to be “the oldest person ever elected to the Senate”. Continue reading...