page_title: Jenny Hocking
section_title: Books
hierarchical_section_title: Jenny Hocking / Books
caption_attribution_description: English: Gough Whitlam at the launch of the Australian Conservation Foundation's newsletter in 1973.
context_page_description: Jennifer Jane Hocking, FASSA is a political scientist and biographer. She is the inaugural Distinguished Whitlam Fellow with the Whitlam Institute at Western Sydney University, Emeritus Professor at Monash University, 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".
  Since 2001 Hocking has been a member of the Board of Tustees of the Lionel Murphy Foundation.
  In 2010 Hocking was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
context_section_description: Beyond Terrorism: the Development of the Australian Security State,  Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993, ISBN 1863733604 (paperback)
  The author chronicles and discusses the development of Australia’s security organisations. She highlights the importance of the buzzwords” “terrorism” ,  “counter-terrorism” and “subversion”. Hocking voices concern at the way security organisations are tempted to build up their own status and "recognition", so as to gain increased government funding, sometimes by exaggerating dangers, imagined events and actual events e.g the Hilton bombing.
  Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2000 ISBN 0 521 79485 4 (paperback)
  The first edition of this work was published in 1997. This is new edition with a Foreword by Justice Michael Kirby and an Epilogue "Did Lionel Murphy really happen?" by the author, 2000.
  The book traces Murphy's life from childhood to his role in the Labor split of the 1950s, his pioneering work as a senator and reformist Attorney-General in the Whitlam government, through to his rise to the bench of the High Court, and to his untimely death, amidst controversy, in 1986.
  Terror Laws: ASIO, Counter-terrorism and the Threat to Democracy, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2004. ISBN 086840702X, 9780868407029
  The author discusses the issue of balancing the need for national security with individual rights and freedoms. The author argues that, in the light of September 11 and Bali, the security legislation proposed, and in part passed, by the Howard government compromises the separation of powers and individual legal and political rights.
  Frank Hardy: Politics, Literature, Life, Melbourne: Lothian Books, 2005.ISBN 0734408366, ISBN 9780734408365
  Christina Hill in the Australian Book Review describes this book as “a non-judgemental and informative life study: Hardy’s tireless political activism on behalf of the left, his work as a public figure and as a writer, his late career as a media personality, his disastrous private life (his drinking, gambling and serial adulteries) all flesh out the man and his world.” 
  Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History, Melbourne University Publishing/Miegunyah Press: Melbourne, 2008 ISBN 9780522857054
  This is Volume I of Gough Whitlam: The Biography. It is a biographical study of the former Labor Prime Minister of Australia. It traces his childhood in the fledgling city of Canberra, his extensive war service in the Pacific and his marriage to Margaret. The biography draws on previously unseen archival material, extensive interviews with family and colleagues, and exclusive interviews with Gough Whitlam himself. The biography describes Whitlam as an extraordinary and complex man whose life was formed by the remarkable events of previous generations of his family. It chronicles his role in changing the Australian political and cultural landscape.
  Gough Whitlam: His Time, Melbourne University Publishing/Miegunyah Press: Melbourne, 2012
  This is Volume II of Gough Whitlam: The Biography. It is a new updated edition of this second book, with an additional chapter and Epilogue: “I never said I was immortal, merely eternal”, 2014.
  This second volume chronicles the period when Gough Whitlam swept to power in the election of December 1972, becoming Australia’s twenty-first prime minister. The author describes the following three years during which Whitlam’s transforming political agenda unfolded. It puts on the record the non-acceptance and resentments of Whitlam’s political enemies. The narrative builds up to the dismissal of the Whitlam government by Governor-General Sir John Kerr covertly supported by the Chief Justice of Australia, Sir Anthony Mason.
  The Dismissal Dossier: Everything you were never meant to know about November 1975, Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2015.
  This is an entirely separate work which has been updated in 2016 and 2017.
  In the light of newly released documents and hitherto unavailable evidence this work covers the secret story of the planning, the people, and the collusion behind the rem
caption: Gough Whitlam – Prime Minister of Australia at the Australian Conservation Foundation (author)
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