Jenny Hocking

Jenny Hocking AM FASSA
Hocking in 2006
Born	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation	Writer, researcher, academic based at Monash University
Language	English
Education	Lauriston Girls' School
Alma mater	Monash University, University of Sydney
Notable works	Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography Frank Hardy: Politics, Literature, Life Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History Gough Whitlam: His Time The Dismissal Dossier The Palace Letters: The Queen, the Governor-General, and the Plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam
Partner	Daryl Dellora

Jennifer Jane Hocking AM FASSA is an Australian historian, political scientist and biographer. She is the inaugural Distinguished Whitlam Fellow with the Whitlam Institute at Western Sydney University,^[1] Emeritus Professor at Monash University,^[2] and former Director of the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University. Her work is in two key areas, counter-terrorism and Australian political biography. In both areas she explores Australian democratic practice, the relationship between the arms of government, and aspects of Australian political history. Her research into the life of former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam uncovered significant new material on the role of High Court justice Sir Anthony Mason in the dismissal of the Whitlam government. This has been described as "a discovery of historical importance".^[3] Since 2001 Hocking has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Lionel Murphy Foundation.^[4]