Jenny Hocking

Jenny Hocking FASSA (born 1954) is an Australian academic, author and biographer. She is Research Professor and Australian Research Council Discovery Outstanding Research Award (DORA) Fellow with the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University. In 2013 she was appointed the inaugural Distinguished Whitlam Fellow at the Whitlam Institute, University of Western Sydney. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2010. She is currently taking the Australian Archive to court to release the palace letters. She has established a chuffed account to fund this case.

Hocking is a biographer, scriptwriter and scholar in Australian Studies, counter-terrorism and Australian politics. 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 and has presented written and in-person submissions to parliamentary inquiries into Australia's counter-terrorism developments. She has written on these and other topics in several press Opinion pieces. She is also a scriptwriter and co-scripted Mr Neal Is Entitled to Be An Agitator, a documentary about former Attorney-General in the Whitlam Government and High Court judge Lionel Murphy, which won the Australian Human Rights Award for Best Documentary Film in 1991, and has been historical consultant on several television documentaries including the 2-part series on Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, The Power and the Passion (2013), screened on ABC-TV.

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