Derryn Hinch is bold, brash and happy to be alive

DERRYN Hinch has vowed to continue his campaign to change the law protecting the identity of convicted sex offenders.

Derryn Hinch

THE silence is over and a bold Derryn Hinch has vowed to continue his campaign to change the law protecting the identity of convicted sex offenders.

Hinch was sentenced to five months house arrest in July after breaching suppression orders by naming sex offenders.

Back on 3AW yesterday, Hinch said he was not afraid to risk further legal action in his quest to change the Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring and Detention Act.

"There are dozens of such men who have been released back into the Victorian community in recent years," he said.

"I believe these men have no right to be able to go about their foul business under a cloak of court-sanctioned secrecy.

"They must be named. The campaign cannot end. Too many children are at risk. And, if I put myself at risk again, well, that's life."

Hinch said he was confident he would live to see the law changed.

"With my new liver I am now confident I will still be around when this mad, bad, dangerous law is dustbinned," he said.

"And if by giving up five months of my new life, five months of my freedom, if that helps change a bad law and saves the innocence of even one child - then, has it been worth it? My bloody oath it has."

Hinch opened his Drive show with flair just after 4pm: "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, good afternoon.

"It's great to be back here on 3AW. It is even better to be alive. Thanks to an organ donor and his family, I have a new liver. And thanks to (surgeon) Bob Jones and his team, I have a new life."

Derryn Hinch

Derryn Hinch serenades his wife with the song You Are So Beautiful at Riva last night.

Hinch's wife, Chanel, said she was very proud of him.

"He inspires me in many ways." she said.

"With all that he has endured this past year, I have never seen him depressed or pessimistic. Not once.

"This year we have experienced every human emotion. As Oscar Wilde said, 'To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all'.

"Well, this year, for better or worse, we have certainly lived."

The couple celebrated Hinch's freedom and return to the airwaves with close friends at a party at Riva Restaurant in St Kilda last night.