He was elected as a Labor Party member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly for Ginninderra electorate, in a countback conducted on 3 March 2016 to fill a casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Mary Porter.
[3] Hinder was born and raised in Canberra, the son of a draughtsman and an art teacher.
At the age of 30, he decided to become a lawyer, selling his business and studying law at Australian National University.
[4] He was a partner in two Canberra law firms before starting his own practice, Jayson Hinder & Associates, in 2004.
He received a "Player of the Day Jacket" in 2015[5] and was also a member of the winning Australian Parliament XV squad in the 2015 Parliamentary Rugby World Cup in England.