Outspoken media figure and former senator Derryn Hinch has died at the age of 82 after a long struggle with his health.
Melbourne talkback radio station 3AW confirmed Hinch's death in an on-air announcement on Friday.
After forming Derryn Hinch's Justice Party in 2016, he was elected to the Senate at age 72.
Hinch had his fair share of off-air troubles, publicly discussing his battle with alcoholism, which would come at great cost to his health.
In 2008, he served five months in home detention for naming two convicted child sex offenders.
He was also jailed for 50 days for refusing to pay a $100,000 fine for revealing the criminal past of Jill Meagher's killer Adrian Ernest Bayley in 2013.
