[1] Hinde then joined the ABC News and Current Affairs department in 1939 and in the same year married for the second time to Barbara Jefferis, who later became a well-known novelist.

[2] Hinde was attached to General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in 1942, first in Melbourne and then Brisbane, and eventually got to New Guinea and the Pacific.

[2] Hinde was hurt at Hollandia in Netherlands New Guinea, after a Japanese Betty bomber bombed a US Army ammunition dump.

[1] After the ABC's previous reviewer, Frank Legg, was killed in a car crash, Hinde was offered freelance work as the film critic.

He was renowned for outrageous skits on the show, even donning high heels and pink tights for McFeast's foray into the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

[1] On 10 June 2002, Hinde was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours list "for service to the film and media industry, particularly through the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

The last film that John Hinde presented on the ABC was Odd Man Out, starring James Mason and Kathleen Ryan, on 15 December 1999.