Yes Prime Minister
'No Prime Minister', says Hinch
HINCH REVIEW: "It is a TV show. It doesn't really make the transformation to the theatre. And the prayer sequence is excruciating. Still Yes, Minister fans will love it. For me, sadly, it was No, Prime Minister."
Back-watching time for the PM?
HINCH BLOG: "No wonder the Gillard camp is jittery. Kevin Rudd just won't go away and a by-election in his seat could mean curtains for the lot of them." What good would leadership change achieve, Hinch asks.
How can you believe Carey?
Neil Mitchell says he believes Wayne Carey's story after he interviewed the controversial former AFL star the day after traces of cocaine were found on his clothing at Barwon Prison. Derryn Hinch explains why he isn't convinced.
Tony Abbott not 'up for it'?
HINCH BLOG: "At one stage he said 'we're up for it'. I can't honestly remember what they were up for but who cares? He didn't sound like he was up for anything. Could have been reading the phone book."
What did the Prime Minister know?
HINCH BLOG: T"here was a political question raised 40 years ago by an American senator that is totally relevant today when you are discussing Julia Gillard and the Australia Day riot in Canberra. What did the Prime Minister know and when did she know it?"
Hinch reveals what court wouldn't
HINCH: "We were all let down by what happened in that courtroom, and especially the physically and memory crippled Heather Hunter, because the real story didn’t come out. Not by a long shot." Read the shocking story here.
Gillard's Nauru figures mythical?
HINCH BLOG: "Because something really smells in all this from Gillard's mythical East Timor Solution before the last election through the Malaysian Solution some of her own Government didn't support."
'Oldies' sick of PM's window-dressing
HINCH BLOG: "Some facts have come to me lately that make me think she probably said it. There's a scandal hatched in Canberra that is affecting quarter of a million Australians – most of them pensioners."
'Education Revolution' misses mark
HINCH BLOG: "To put it crudely: Our smartest kids aren't that smart. And the dummies are getting dumber." Derryn Hinch translates the Prime Minister's diplomatic take on how the 'Education Revolution' is really going.
'Unscrupulous' Gillard 'will be gone'
HINCH BLOG: "Would Tony Abbott have behaved any differently to cling to power? Remember, he offered Wilkie $1 billion for a new hospital in Tasmania in an attempt to buy his vote. Whatever it takes. Bring on the election."
Tweets, lies and no videotape
HINCH BLOG: "I know I have copped my share of flack from cyclists by calling them cockroaches on wheels' but we deserve to know what really happened in my neighbourhood last night."
From pizzas offer to teargas
HINCH BLOG: "During night-time negotiations they were offered pizzas if they came down but told negotiators to 'f--K off'. Eventually the Emergency Management Team was brought in with dogs."
Siren ban jeopardising thousands?
HINCH BLOG: There’s another issue involving selfishness that doesn’t help in times of fire alerts. And that’s the ban on CFA units from testing their sirens. I said at the time I guess they preferred the sound of a bushfire roaring through.
Mansour Almaribe details lashings
VIDEO: Australian Mansour Almaribe has touched down in Melbourne after a harrowing ordeal in a Saudi jail. Almaribe received 75 lashes. He speaks to Derryn Hinch in the 3AW studio.
Hinch speaks up for us 'mushrooms'
HINCH BLOG "Again and again it is 'cover your arse' time. And you the public are told as little as possible as late as possible. Kept in the dark and fed bullshit. Hello, mushrooms." Read more here.
Hinch doesn't want to be counted
HINCH BLOG: "They don't have it in any other western country. Not the United States or Canada or Britain or across the ditch in New Zealand. Why here? Why are adult Australians treated like children?"
Police 'damned' either way: Hinch
HINCH BLOG: "I agree with former Victorian Assistant Commissioner and then West Australian Police Commissioner Bob Falconer. He says: 'Any Police officer worth his or her salt should chase people who flee from them. It is their job'." Read more.
Coles' meat ad is on the nose?
VIDEO BLOG: 3AW's Derryn Hinch posted this tweet after seeing the new Coles ad with Normie Rowe: "Normie. Look what you’ve done to your own song. Hope Coles has better quality control on meat than on ads." What do you think?
'Avoidably Detained' - the Hinch film
3AW Producer Ben Wise filmed and produced a slapstick behind-the-scenes short film capturing Derryn Hinch's daily habits while he was in home detention. Watch it here.
Derryn Hinch free from detention
Derryn Hinch has welcomed freedom after five months of home detention with a tweet and a glass of non-alcoholic wine. Read more and view Hinch's first moments of freedom.
Hinch detained and banned
UPDATE: Derryn Hinch has received five months home detention and has been banned from broadcasting or publishing during that time for naming sex offenders whose names were suppressed.
New Liver For Hinch
Derryn Hinch received a life-changing phone call while he was farewelling a 3AW colleague on Tuesday night and now has a new, donated, liver.
From the pub to a new liver!
REPLAY: Derryn Hinch's producer Shannon Reid explains to Neil Mitchell how it was actually her who received THE call from the Austin Hospital regarding Hinch's liver transplant. Listen to her explain how Hinch got from a Melbourne pub to the hospital.
Derryn Hinch sentencing
DERRYN HINCH: "I am under no illusions. If it hadn't been for my serious medical condition I would be in jail right now instead of writing this." Read the report Hinch wrote after his dramatic day in court on Tuesday.
Hinch's Wendy Peirce 'obituary'
SCATHING: "Her final riposte was something like: ‘If I saw you on the street I wouldn’t spit on you.’ My reply: ‘I wouldn’t piss on you if your teeth were on fire’." Blog includes famous archive audio of Hinch v Peirce.
'Fame Fame Fame' for Hinch
It was Derryn Hinch's night at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards on Saturday night with the Drive host being inducted into the Hall Of Fame.
Man on the moon: 40 years on
On the 40th anniversary of man's inaugral trip to the moon, Derryn Hinch opened Thursday's program with a special tribute to that famous hot July day at Cape Kennedy. Click here for the amazing audio montage.
Greens' downfall imminent?
HINCH BLOG: On the surface, The Greens have never been so strong. But as Sally Neighbour points out in today’s issue of The Monthly: The Australian Democrats were powerful with the balance of power in the Senate and now not one of them is left.
Dick Smith vows to fight sale
An investment expert says Woolworths should have made the decision to close up to 100 of its struggling Dick Smith electronic stores years ago. This comes as Dick Smithy says he will 'rubbish' the electronics business he founded.
Mallia's death raises question
HINCH BLOG: "But, whereas that story ran on Page One, today's news about Daniel Mallia's sudden death was only worth two paragraphs on Page 29." Hinch raises questions about the death of Daniel Mallia.
Farmland ownership review
A government report has recommended a nation-wide register to keep track of how much farmland is being bought by foreign companies. Derryn Hinch takes a closer look at a major regional issue.
'Listen, you pompous twit!'
HINCH BLOG: "Listen, you pompous twit, that's another whole month for these kids who have already been traumatised for nearly a year. Give them back today, you heartless pen-pushing jerk."
Can we afFord this bail-out?
HINCH BLOG: "Back in Detroit, they must be laughing. What irks me is that you don't see Governments – state or federal – kicking in money when small businesses start to struggle or are at risk of going out of business."
'A Transplanted Life'
HINCH BLOG: I want to bring you up to date on my health. After all, I’ve only spoken once since my liver transplant – and that was ON 3AW within hours of it happening. Cant’ believe how I did that from the intensive care unit at the Austin.
The gag is off
HINCH RETURNS: "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted..." Read Derryn Hinch's hard-hitting opening editorial on the day he was released from home detention for naming convicted sex offenders. Watch and read more.
What Hinch said in court
BEHIND THE SCENES: Read what Derryn Hinch said in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on June 21 to Magistrate Charles Rozencwagj.
Tardio's tribute to Hinch
"I hope that a day will arrive when that grieving family can take some comfort in the knowledge that liver may give Derryn another 30 years to change stupid laws, to put the wind up politicians and to tell the people of Melbourne what is really happening - without fear and without favour."
New asylum deal appalling?
AUDIO: Derryn Hinch interviewed Oppostion Leader Tony Abbott about the Labor Government's new plan to swap 800 asylum seekers with Malaysia for 4000 of their own refugees. Does this strategy make any sense?
Hinch wants Melbourne jail
VIDEO AND EDITORIAL: "If I am jailed I will only ask, because of my health, that it is at a prison close to Melbourne because I am on transplant alert. That is why I was not in Canberra for the High Court decision today."
Hinch of the St Kilda scandal
EDITORIALS: Derryn Hinch has been using online blogs to ask the questions that no one else seems to be asking in relation to the St Kilda nude photo scandal. So far, at least, he hasn't received all the answers.
Here's to the next 50 years!
VIDEO: "My ‘boss’ Derryn is heading off on a well-deserved break and I thought I would acknowledge in his 50th year in media, and one of his most difficult, that we all know we are stuck with him for probably another 50!"
VIDEO: Hinch and the moon
3AW's Derryn Hinch, as a US Correspondent in 1969, broadcasts the launch of Apollo 11. Watch the amazing video.
Hinch/Howard - Frost/Nixon
Academy Award-winning Ron Howard goes toe-to-toe with 3AW Drive's Derryn Hinch, a qualified critic of Howard's films given he was in the States covering most of the real-life events the US director has based some of his films on. Howard discusses the inspiration for his latest movie - Frost/Nixon. Read Hinch's review.
Richard Arnold: Profile
Richard Arnold is 3AW's US Correspondent, and can be heard every day on 3AW Drive with Derryn Hinch and also as the chief reporter of all US events for 3AW Radio's news bulletins. Richard began in radio after earning two degrees at Sydney University.
