Veteran broadcaster, bon vivant and sometime senator Derryn Hinch has died, aged 82, after a long battle with a series of infections arising from a bad fall last year.
In an interview with A Current Affair in November, Hinch claimed he had had 30 falls in the preceding 12 months, one of which left him lying on the floor of his St Kilda Road apartment for 12 hours before help arrived.
He suffered two broken ribs in that incident in September, and the after-effects lingered for the rest of his life, sending him back to the nearby Alfred Hospital for multiple extended stays.
In his frequent posts on Facebook, Hinch kept his friends and followers apprised of his health (declining) and his diet (tending to the mushy) while maintaining as much of an upbeat attitude as a man who had endured cancer treatment, heart surgery, an infected leg, and a liver transplant could muster.
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