Jenny Hocking

Who is Jenny Hocking?

Jenny Hocking is a research professor and the Head of the School of Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Hocking is a biographer and scholar in Australian Studies, published in many political, history, and law journals. She is the author and co-editor of several books including two books on terrorism, Beyond Terrorism: the Development of the Australian Security State, first published in 1993, and Terror Laws: ASIO, Counter-Terrorism and the Threat to Democracy. She has been quoted on various topics on television, on the radio, and in the press.

Hocking has written three biographies, on Lionel Murphy, the Australian High Court Judge and Attorney-General in the Whitlam government, Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography; on Frank Hardy, Australian author and communist activist, "Frank Hardy: Politics Literature Life"; and the definitive two-volume biography of former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History and "Gough Whitlam: His Time". Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography was short-listed for a South Australian Festival Awards for Literature prize in the non-fiction category in 1998.