Derryn Hinch
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Derryn Nigel Hinch is an Australia
n media personality best known for his work on Melbourne
radio. He is currently the host of 3AW
's drive time radio show. He has also been a police reporter, foreign correspondent
, newspaper editor, television show host, novelist and vintner
.
. He married Chanel Hayton in February 2006.
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In 1963, he came to Australia on the MV Wanganella and joined The Sydney Morning Herald
. By 1968 he had become a foreign correspondent
for the Fairfax
organisation, and finally moved to New York
as bureau chief. He remained in the United States
for eleven years.
plus, has appeared as Himself in The Wog Boy
with Nick Giannopoulos
. He has also made cameo appearances on Fast Forward.
, who had previously been convicted on a charge of indecent assault
with a minor, was to be tried on new charges while still running a youth camp. Hinch, who was concerned that parents were unknowingly sending their children to Glennon's camp, first appealed privately to then Victoria Premier
John Cain
and the then-Attorney General
, as well as the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Australia, but in Hinch's words, they "washed their hands" of the situation. Subsequently Hinch publicly identified Glennon during his trial on the third set of charges, in spite of the strong sub judice
rule under Australian jurisprudence. This delayed the trial while Hinch was tried on contempt of court
charges; Hinch was fined $10,000 and jailed for 12 days. This was the first time anyone had gone to jail on a prior restraint
issue in Australia. Hinch appealed his case as far as the High Court of Australia
, which affirmed his conviction. In its ruling the Court held that despite Hinch's motivation of warning the public that Glennon continued to hold a position in a youth organisation, it was sufficient to inform them of the current charges against him, and that the information about his prior conviction was prejudicial under Australian law. Hinch calls the incident "the thing I'm most proud of in my life."
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and Hinch attended the 40 Years of Radio Legends, after which Hinch complained the "event had been turned into a tribute to Laws", among other comments which caused ill feeling between the two.
On 5 December 2007, while on holiday, Hinch was abused verbally with obscenities
by John Laws in unprovoked circumstances whilst dining at lunch with 2CH
personality Bob Rogers
in a restaurant at Woolloomooloo's Finger Wharf
in Sydney
.
who called for his legal prosecution.
On 4 March 2007, on the Australian 60 Minutes program, Hinch revealed that he has been suffering from advanced cirrhosis
of the liver, a tumourous growth had also been detected on his liver.
On 27 April 2007, Hinch went back to hospital for more scans to check the size of his liver cancer growths and said on his website daily comments that he had a well-earned day off work.
On 4 August 2007, in the Herald Sun
, Hinch revealed he has an inoperable liver cancer
.
On 20 September 2010, Hinch confirmed that he had been diagnosed with liver cancer, and indicated that he would soon be undergoing surgery to remove a third of his liver, taking him off air for several weeks. Doctors have reportedly said that he has a 60 per cent chance of surviving a further five years. On 4 November 2010, Hinch told his listeners that his doctors had told him that without a liver transplant, his maximum survival would be 12 months.
On 6 July 2011, Hinch underwent liver transplant surgery at the Austin Hospital
in Melbourne.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n media personality best known for his work on Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
radio. He is currently the host of 3AW
3AW
3AW is a talkback radio station in Melbourne, Australia on 693 kHz AM. It began transmission on 22 February 1932 as Melbourne's fifth commercial radio station.-History:...
's drive time radio show. He has also been a police reporter, foreign correspondent
Foreign correspondent
Foreign Correspondent may refer to:*Foreign correspondent *Foreign Correspondent , an Alfred Hitchcock film*Foreign Correspondent , an Australian current affairs programme...
, newspaper editor, television show host, novelist and vintner
Vintner
A vintner is a wine merchant. You pronounce it like this In some modern use, in particular in American English, the term is alsoused as a synonym for winemaker....
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Biography
Hinch has been married four times, including twice to Australian actress Jacki WeaverJacki Weaver
Jacqueline Ruth "Jacki" Weaver is an Australian theatre, film and television actress. She is best known outside Australia for her performance in Animal Kingdom, for which she was nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.-Career:Jacki Weaver has been working in Australian...
. He married Chanel Hayton in February 2006.
Journalism
Hinch began his career at the age of 15 with the New Zealand Taranaki HeraldTaranaki Herald
The Taranaki Herald was an afternoon daily newspaper, published in New Plymouth, New Zealand. It began publishing as a four-page tabloid on August 4, 1852 and until it ceased publication in 1989 was the oldest daily newspaper in the country....
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In 1963, he came to Australia on the MV Wanganella and joined The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week. The newspaper's Sunday counterpart, The...
. By 1968 he had become a foreign correspondent
Foreign correspondent
Foreign Correspondent may refer to:*Foreign correspondent *Foreign Correspondent , an Alfred Hitchcock film*Foreign Correspondent , an Australian current affairs programme...
for the Fairfax
Fairfax Media
Fairfax Media Limited is one of Australia's largest diversified media companies. The group's operations include newspapers, magazines, radios and digital media operating in Australia and New Zealand. Fairfax Media was founded by the Fairfax family as John Fairfax and Sons, later to become John...
organisation, and finally moved to New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
as bureau chief. He remained in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
for eleven years.
Television
- Hinch (Seven NetworkSeven NetworkThe Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
1987–1991, then 1992–1994 Network TenNetwork TenNetwork Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...
) - Beauty and the Beast (1982–1983)
- The Midday Show (Nine NetworkNine NetworkThe Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
) - Mars Venus (FoxtelFoxtelFoxtel is an Australian pay television company, operating cable, direct broadcast satellite television and IPTV services. It was formed in 1995 through a joint venture established between Telstra and News Corporation....
) - Dancing with the StarsDancing with the Stars (Australian TV series)Dancing with the Stars is a Logie Award-winning, Australian light entertainment reality show airing on the Seven Network and filmed live from the HSV-7 studios in Melbourne...
(Seven Network) (appearance)
Acting
Hinch starred as The Criminologist in the Australian tour of The Rocky Horror ShowThe Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Show is a long-running British horror comedy stage musical, which opened in London on 19 June 1973. It was written by Richard O'Brien, produced and directed by Jim Sharman. It came eighth in a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the "Nation's Number One Essential Musicals"...
plus, has appeared as Himself in The Wog Boy
The Wog Boy
The Wog Boy is a 2000 Australian motion picture comedy starring Nick Giannopoulos, Vince Colosimo, Lucy Bell, Abi Tucker, John Barresi, Stephen Curry, Hung Le, Geraldine Turner, Tony Nikolakopoulos and Derryn Hinch. -Plot:...
with Nick Giannopoulos
Nick Giannopoulos
Nick Giannopoulos is a Australian stand-up comedian, film and TV actor. He is best known for his comedy stage show Wogs Out of Work alongside George Kapiniaris and the television sitcom Acropolis Now and is an exponent of wog comedy.-Early life:Nick is an actor/writer/producer/director...
. He has also made cameo appearances on Fast Forward.
Michael Glennon
In 1985, Hinch found that Michael GlennonMichael Charles Glennon
Michael Charles Glennon is a convicted Australian child molester and former Roman Catholic priest, one of the most notorious clergy sex abuse cases in that country. Glennon ran a youth camp in Lancefield, Victoria, where most of the abuse took place...
, who had previously been convicted on a charge of indecent assault
Indecent assault
Indecent assault is an offence of aggravated assault in many jurisdictions. It is characterised as a sex crime.Indecent assault was an offence in England and Wales under sections 14 and 15 the Sexual Offences Act 1956...
with a minor, was to be tried on new charges while still running a youth camp. Hinch, who was concerned that parents were unknowingly sending their children to Glennon's camp, first appealed privately to then Victoria Premier
Premiers of the Australian states
The Premiers of the Australian states are the de facto heads of the executive governments in the six states of the Commonwealth of Australia. They perform the same function at the state level as the Prime Minister of Australia performs at the national level. The territory equivalents to the...
John Cain
John Cain II
John Cain , Australian Labor Party politician, was the 41st Premier of Victoria, holding office from 1982 to 1990.-Biography:...
and the then-Attorney General
Attorney General
In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may also have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.The term is used to refer to any person...
, as well as the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Australia, but in Hinch's words, they "washed their hands" of the situation. Subsequently Hinch publicly identified Glennon during his trial on the third set of charges, in spite of the strong sub judice
Sub judice
In law, sub judice, Latin for "under judgment", means that a particular case or matter is currently under trial or being considered by a judge or court...
rule under Australian jurisprudence. This delayed the trial while Hinch was tried on contempt of court
Contempt of court
Contempt of court is a court order which, in the context of a court trial or hearing, declares a person or organization to have disobeyed or been disrespectful of the court's authority...
charges; Hinch was fined $10,000 and jailed for 12 days. This was the first time anyone had gone to jail on a prior restraint
Prior restraint
Prior restraint or prior censorship is censorship in which certain material may not be published or communicated, rather than not prohibiting publication but making the publisher answerable for what is made known...
issue in Australia. Hinch appealed his case as far as the High Court of Australia
High Court of Australia
The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia. It has both original and appellate jurisdiction, has the power of judicial review over laws passed by the Parliament of Australia and the parliaments of the States, and...
, which affirmed his conviction. In its ruling the Court held that despite Hinch's motivation of warning the public that Glennon continued to hold a position in a youth organisation, it was sufficient to inform them of the current charges against him, and that the information about his prior conviction was prejudicial under Australian law. Hinch calls the incident "the thing I'm most proud of in my life."
Mick Gatto's call
On 24 June 2008, whilst discussing the celebrity status of underworld crime figures during his drive program Mick Gatto phoned in and had a brief confrontation with Hinch, ending with a death threatDeath threat
A death threat is a threat of death, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or groups of people. These threats are usually designed to intimidate victims in order to manipulate their behavior, thus a death threat is a form of coercion...
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John Laws
On 30 July 2007, John LawsJohn Laws
Richard John Sinclair "John" Laws, CBE , an Australian radio presenter, sometimes known as Lawsie, was from the 1970s until his retirement in 2007, the host of a hugely successful morning radio program, which mixed music with interviews, opinion, live advertising readings and listener talkback...
and Hinch attended the 40 Years of Radio Legends, after which Hinch complained the "event had been turned into a tribute to Laws", among other comments which caused ill feeling between the two.
On 5 December 2007, while on holiday, Hinch was abused verbally with obscenities
Profanity
Profanity is a show of disrespect, or a desecration or debasement of someone or something. Profanity can take the form of words, expressions, gestures, or other social behaviors that are socially constructed or interpreted as insulting, rude, vulgar, obscene, desecrating, or other forms.The...
by John Laws in unprovoked circumstances whilst dining at lunch with 2CH
2CH
2CH is a commercial radio station in Sydney, Australia, at 1170 kHz AM. It broadcasts an oldies format, and is aimed to an older age demographic...
personality Bob Rogers
Bob Rogers (disc jockey)
Bob Rogers OAM is an Australian disc jockey and radio broadcaster. He currently presents the Bob Rogers Show, Monday to Friday between 9am-12 noon and the 6-hour Saturday evening Reminiscing program on Sydney radio station 2CH....
in a restaurant at Woolloomooloo's Finger Wharf
Finger Wharf
The Finger Wharf or Woolloomooloo Wharf is a wharf in Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney, Australia. The structure is the largest timbered-piled building in the world and was completed in 1915...
in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
.
Sexual Relationship With Underage Girl
In his 2004 book, The Fall and Rise of Derryn Hinch, and in a radio editorial in March 2005, Hinch admitted to having sex with a 15 year old when he was in his early thirties although he states he "thought she was about 25". Following his on-air admission, Hinch was roundly criticized by many and notably by Herald Sun journalist Andrew BoltAndrew Bolt
Andrew Bolt is an Australian newspaper columnist, radio commentator, blogger and television host. Bolt is a columnist and associate editor of the Melbourne-based Herald Sun. He has appeared on the Nine Network, Melbourne Talk Radio, ABC Television, Network Ten and local radio...
who called for his legal prosecution.
Books by Derryn Hinch
- The Scrabble Book (1972, rev. ed. 1977), ISBN 0-333-23073-6
- Death at Newport (1986), ISBN 0-207-15422-8
- AIDS - Most of the Questions, Some of the Answers (1987), ISBN 0-9587779-1-8
- Death In Paradise (1989), ISBN 0-207-16165-8
- The Derryn Hinch Diet (1991), ISBN 0-14-016527-4
- That's Life (1992), ISBN 0-14-016986-5
- The Ultimate Guide to Winning Scrabble (2001), ISBN 1-86325-324-6
- 101 Ways To Lose Your Mobile Phone (2001), ISBN 0-646-40631-0
- The Fall and Rise of Derryn Hinch: How I Hit the Wall and Didn't Bleed (2004), ISBN 1-74066-159-1
Health
In 2006, Hinch could be seen to have lost a considerable amount of weight and his health was believed to be in decline.On 4 March 2007, on the Australian 60 Minutes program, Hinch revealed that he has been suffering from advanced cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis is a consequence of chronic liver disease characterized by replacement of liver tissue by fibrosis, scar tissue and regenerative nodules , leading to loss of liver function...
of the liver, a tumourous growth had also been detected on his liver.
On 27 April 2007, Hinch went back to hospital for more scans to check the size of his liver cancer growths and said on his website daily comments that he had a well-earned day off work.
On 4 August 2007, in the Herald Sun
Herald Sun
The Herald Sun is a morning tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia. It is published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Limited, itself a subsidiary of News Corporation. It is available for purchase throughout Melbourne, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital...
, Hinch revealed he has an inoperable liver cancer
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common type of liver cancer. Most cases of HCC are secondary to either a viral hepatitide infection or cirrhosis .Compared to other cancers, HCC is quite a rare tumor in the United States...
.
On 20 September 2010, Hinch confirmed that he had been diagnosed with liver cancer, and indicated that he would soon be undergoing surgery to remove a third of his liver, taking him off air for several weeks. Doctors have reportedly said that he has a 60 per cent chance of surviving a further five years. On 4 November 2010, Hinch told his listeners that his doctors had told him that without a liver transplant, his maximum survival would be 12 months.
On 6 July 2011, Hinch underwent liver transplant surgery at the Austin Hospital
Austin Hospital, Melbourne
The Austin Hospital is a major teaching public hospital located in Melbourne's north eastern suburb of Heidelberg, and is administrated by Austin Health, along with the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital and the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre.-History:...
in Melbourne.
Criminal conviction
In June 2011, he was convicted of breaching suppression orders against the names of two sex offenders, and was subsequently sentenced to five months home detention.External links
- Official Derryn Hinch web site
- Derryn Hinch Biography, Information, etc ...
- I'm Derryn, I'm back and that's life (The Age, 26 February 2003)
- interview with George Negus 30 June 2004
- interview with Andrew Denton
- HINCH and MACQUARIE BROADCASTING HOLDINGS LIMITED v. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR THE STATE OF VICTORIA (1987) 164 CLR 15 F.C. 87/046 (High Court judgment)
- 3AW Hinch highlights