The journalist known as the Human Headline declares himself a candidate for the city’s top job, saying he still has “fire in the belly” at 80.
Derryn Hinch says he won’t be a revolutionary should he win election as Lord Mayor of Melbourne in October.
Incumbent Lord Mayor Sally Capp’s future is the source of much speculation, but no announcement has been made. Capp said on 3AW on Wednesday that she hadn’t decided if she would run again. She praised Hinch as a previously elected representative who understood hard work and the complexity of issues but also pointed out that Melbourne’s voting profile is getting younger.
A firm believer that “COVID hasn’t gone”, he wants to lessen its impact on the city and bring people back to the CBD by converting office blocks into apartments.“I mean, that is junk. We can’t affect it. And it can, as the acting lord mayor said, cause division in this town, which we don’t want.” He was jailed over a contempt of court case involving a paedophile priest and was under house arrest for publishing the suppressed names of sex offenders. He served as a federal senator from 2016 until 2019 , and says “part of me died” when he wasn’t re-elected.