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Veteran broadcaster, bon vivant and sometime senator Derryn Hinch has died aged 82 after a long battle with a series of infections stemming from a bad fall last year.
In an interview with A Current Event In November, Hinch claimed he had fallen 30 times in the previous 12 months; one of which left him lying on the floor of his St Kilda Road flat for 12 hours until help arrived.
He suffered two broken ribs in the incident in September, the effects of which lasted for the rest of his life and sent him back to nearby Alfred Hospital for multiple extended stays.
In frequent posts on Facebook, Hinch updated his friends and followers on his health (in decline) and diet (his tendency to become emotional) while displaying as much optimism as a man who had been treated for cancer, had heart surgery, an infected leg and a liver transplant could muster.
