Former radio host has revealed he will run for Victorian Parliament at the November election this year.
Mr Hinch announced his plans on Twitter on Tuesday night.
He formerly served as a senator in Federal Parliament between 2016 and 2019.
The 78-year-old who once had his own current affairs program on television is aiming to secure a seat in the State senate after he failed to get elected at the recent federal election.
His party, named Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party was founded in 2016. Its policies include a “hard-line law-and-order approach”, including sex offenders register, tougher parole laws and prioritising jail sentences over rehabilitation and bail.
The party holds two seats in the upper house – through Stuart Grimley and Tania Maxwell, and Mr Hinch will nominate for the Southern Metropolitan Region.
“Yes… it’s true,” Mr Hinch responded when asked on Twitter about his run.
Victorian Justice Party leader Stuart Grimley tweeted, “Still plenty of fire in his belly in standing up for justice issues!”
Mr Hinch is a long time advocate for victims of crime, and he has had his own brushes with law as a result – including a stint in gaol in 1987 for publicly naming a paedophile priest, he endured a 5 month home detention for breaching suppression orders against the names of sex offenders, and a 50 day stint in 2014 for contempt of court in relation to Jill Meagher’s murder case – he breached another suppression order.
Kiwi-born, the media personality prides himself on being “a man of the people” who promises to do “what is right and just, no matter the cost”, according to his website.
