Journalist and Broadcaster

"Nothing I say can match the comments made this week by Sonja Brennan. She lost her 18-year-old son Mitchell after a road accident. In her grief a mother made a decision that meant in death her son would save lives as an organ donor. People, like me, who are on the waiting list, can never repay such selfless, life-saving, generosity. All we can say to people like the Brennan Family is ‘thank you for such a precious gift. The gift of life'."

In January 2010 Derryn Hinch passed a personal media milestone. He celebrated his 50 years as a journalist.

Hinch used to threaten he would eventually write an autobiography and call it Famous People who have met me. He was joking. Eventually he did write three. The first, about the private thoughts of a public person, used his catchphrase as the title: That's Life. The second was called The Fall and Rise of Derryn Hinch - How I hit the wall and didn't bleed. And his third - to be released in October 2010 -is called Human Headlines - My 50 years in the media. He has now written twelve books, including two novels. Read more about Derryn Hinch

Derryn Hinch is a radio presenter on the afternoon Drive program on Radio 3AW.