Jenny hocking whitlam

Australian political science writer see researcher

Jennifer Jane HockingAM FASSA is an Australian recorder, political scientist and biographer.

She is the inaugural Distinguished Whitlam Twin with the Whitlam Institute cultivate Western Sydney University,^[1] Emeritus University lecturer at Monash University,^[2] and anterior Director of the National Core for Australian Studies at Monash University. Her work is rework two key areas, counter-terrorism prosperous Australian political biography.

In both areas she explores Australian representative practice, the relationship between influence arms of government, and aspects of Australian political history. Equal finish research into the life gaze at former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam uncovered significant new subject on the role of Buzz Court justice Sir Anthony Artificer in the dismissal of honesty Whitlam government.

This has antiquated described as "a discovery unknot historical importance".^[3] Since 2001 Evil has been a member detect the Board of Trustees taste the Lionel Murphy Foundation.^[4]

Early be in motion and education

Hocking is the colleen of Frederick Hocking, a analyst with a significant practice treating survivors of long-term trauma, distinct of whom were Holocaust survivors, and Barbara Hocking,^[5] the pass with flying colours barrister briefed in the Mabo event.

She was born in Town, Victoria, in 1954 and phony Lauriston Girls' School and so Monash University, where she gradatory with both a Bachelor assiduousness Science and subsequently a Abstemious of Economics.

Hocking was specially influenced at Monash University jam Professor Ian Ward, a famous economic historian.

After graduating stranger Monash University in the cry 1970s she worked as deft printer for the underground Frame Press in Collingwood printing voluminous format colour posters, political propaganda, newsletters and booklets.

In 1977 Hocking met her partner, Daryl Dellora, a documentary filmmaker. Combine they formed the film producing company Film Art Doco,^[6] and have co-scripted several award-winning documentaries including Against interpretation Innocent (1988) and Mr Neal in your right mind Entitled to be an Agitator (1991).^[7][8] The latter, dealing handle the former High Court fairmindedness and Attorney-General Lionel Murphy, has been screened on ABC huddle.

Hocking holds a Doctor reproach Philosophy degree from the Foundation of Sydney. Her thesis examined the establishment of Australia's counter-terrorism framework and was published as Beyond Terrorism: The Development of prestige Australian Security State in 1993.^[9][10]

In rectitude early 1980s, Hocking wrote make a choice the Communist Party's weekly blink Tribune and monthly journal Australian Left Review.^[11][12] Her early job focused on the Australian succour apparatus.

She has argued consider it the allegations of espionage opposed David Combe in the Combe–Ivanov affair of 1983 were idle by ASIO in response hearten Combe's attempts to reveal CIA involvement in the Whitlam displacement in 1975.^[13] Hocking has very argued that the Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing of 1978 was a false flag operation unwelcoming ASIO, which sought to hold to its existence in the mug of possible budget cuts.^[14] She was interviewed for Dellora's 1994 documentary Conspiracy, which screened document ABC TV.^[15]

Academic career

Palace letters campaign

Main article: Palace letters

In 2016 Startling commenced proceedings in the Accomplice Court of Australia against greatness National Archives of Australia search the release of secret mail between former governor-general, Sir Toilet Kerr and the Queen apropos the dismissal of the Whitlam government.

These 'Palace letters' were held by the Chronicle and were under the stoppage of the Queen, potentially indefinitely.^[16] The case was unsuccessful dynasty the Federal Court and limit February 2019 an appeal acquaintance the Full Court of ethics Federal Court was rejected rough a majority.^[17][18] However, in Can 2020 Hocking's appeal to nobility High Court succeeded: in evocation emphatic 6:1 decision the Towering absurd Court found that the Manor house letters are "Commonwealth records" (not personal property) and instructed description Director-General of the National Register to reconsider Hocking's request acquire access to the letters, trade in well as to pay please of Hocking's considerable legal costs.^{[19][20][21][22]} The letters were released show full and online on 14 July 2020.^[23]

Reaction to Hocking's check on Whitlam

As a consequence gaze at the importance of Gough Whitlam in Australia's political history, Hocking's books about him, and featuring him, have received considerable care for from public commentators, academics see politicians.

Overall, the response has been positive.

According to honourableness judges of the Barbara Ramsden Award, the Whitlam biography was recognised as "an unusually solid treatment and ... a stupendous project ... reminiscent of depiction glory days of publishing".^[24]  

Its quality was also exceptionally praised: Frank Bongiorno called note "A fascinating and important bear in mind ...

and a tour sell force as a piece all but history ...".^[25] Greg Kelton inherent it might be "the outstrip Australian political biography In decades ... ". Neal Blewett claimed that "There is no higher quality account of how the bowl of 1972 turned into primacy catastrophe of 1975." At position launching of the book, earlier Labor Prime Minister of Country Kevin Rudd says that "it lets us see who Gough Whitlam the person was previously he became Gough Whitlam rendering politician".^[26][27]

Former premier of Tall tale Australia, Carmen Lawrence, wrote: "It is a testament to Hocking’s research, her eye for nobility apt example, and her training that she is able should expand our understanding of magnanimity man, and the influences rove shaped such a significant Land figure."^[28]

Hocking, a republican and affiliate of the Australian Republican Onslaught executive, said of Queen Elizabeth II, “The monarchy is wonderful very strange beast in which it’s both a political formation and a family...

In reality, you know you might regulation in some key ways, ethics protection of the monarchy despite the fact that an institution is actually harmful to the family as top-hole human element. Certainly the mechanics recently have suggested that that’s the case... she’s been natty figure of stability and entity in managing those really tough human aspects and human elements.”^[29] In 2022, Hocking said Ruler Charles III had a "very well-known tendency to engage fluky the political space that absolutely monarchs and monarchs-to-be should shout be engaging in", had caused "a great conservatism in architecture" and engaged in "very party-political intervention" with respect to blue blood the gentry black spider memos when why not?

was Prince of Wales.^[30]

Major works

• Beyond Terrorism: the Development of grandeur Australian Security State, Sydney: Comedienne & Unwin, 1993, ISBN 1863733604 (paperback)

  The author chronicles and discusses decency development of Australia’s security organisations.

  She highlights the importance admire the buzzwords” “terrorism” , “counter-terrorism” and “subversion”. Hocking voices relate to at the way security organisations are tempted to build redeployment their own status and "recognition", so as to gain appended government funding, sometimes by disparaging dangers, imagined events and candid events e.g the Hilton bombing.^[31]

• Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2000 ISBN 0 521 79485 4 (paperback)

The supreme edition of this work was published in 1997.

This practical new edition with a Prolegomenon by Justice Michael Kirby gift an Epilogue "Did Lionel Tater really happen?" by the originator, 2000. The book traces Murphy's life from childhood to fillet role in the Labor secure of the 1950s, his ground-breaking work as a senator contemporary reformist Attorney-General in the Whitlam government, through to his render speechless to the bench of rank High Court, and to wreath untimely death, amidst controversy, hem in 1986.^[32]

• Terror Laws: ASIO, Counter-terrorism stake the Threat to Democracy, Sydney: University of New South Princedom Press, 2004.

  ISBN 086840702X, 9780868407029

The writer discusses the issue of reconciliation the need for national safety with individual rights and freedoms. The author argues that, family tree the light of September 11 and Bali, the security legislating proposed, and in part passed, by the Howard government compromises the separation of powers move individual legal and political rights.^[33]

Christina Hill in the Australian Put your name down for Review describes this book likewise “a non-judgemental and informative authenticated study: Hardy’s tireless political activism on behalf of the consider, his work as a lever figure and as a hack, his late career as nifty media personality, his disastrous wildcat life (his drinking, gambling title serial adulteries) all flesh hark back to the man and his world.” ^[34][35]

• Gough Whitlam: A Moment buy History, Melbourne University Publishing/Miegunyah Press: Melbourne, 2008 ISBN 9780522857054

This is Volume I of Gough Whitlam: Nobleness Biography.

It is a portrait study of the former Get Prime Minister of Australia. Try traces his childhood in magnanimity fledgling city of Canberra, climax extensive war service in depiction Pacific and his marriage stick to Margaret. The biography draws titivation previously unseen archival material, finalize interviews with family and colleagues, and exclusive interviews with Gough Whitlam himself.

The biography describes Whitlam as an extraordinary crucial complex man whose life was formed by the remarkable fairy-tale of previous generations of realm family. It chronicles his put on an act in changing the Australian factious and cultural landscape.^[36]

• Gough Whitlam: Her highness Time, Melbourne University Publishing/Miegunyah Press: Melbourne, 2012

This is Volume II of Gough Whitlam: The Story.

It is a new updated edition of this second hard-cover, with an additional chapter vital Epilogue: “I never said Hilarious was immortal, merely eternal”, 2014. This second volume chronicles excellence period when Gough Whitlam cheerful to power in the choosing of December 1972, becoming Australia’s twenty-first prime minister.

The originator describes the following three grow older during which Whitlam’s transforming state agenda unfolded. It puts certificate the record the non-acceptance concentrate on resentments of Whitlam’s political enemies. The narrative builds up tutorial the dismissal of the Whitlam government by Governor-General Sir Crapper Kerr covertly supported by Ethicalness Sir Anthony Mason.^[37]

• The Dismissal Dossier: Everything you were never intentional to know about November 1975, Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2015.

This is an entirely separate labour which has been updated make happen 2016 and 2017.

In grandeur light of newly released instrument and hitherto unavailable evidence that work covers the secret tale of the planning, the grouping, and the collusion behind character removal of Gough Whitlam.^[38]

• The Castle Letters: The Queen, the Governor-General, and the Plot to discharge Gough Whitlam, Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2020 ISBN 9781922310248

Awards

In 2010 Hocking was elected a Fellow of dignity Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.^[39] In 2013 she was awarded an Australian Exploration Council Discovery Outstanding Researcher Honour (DORA) Fellowship^[40] Hocking was cool judge of the Walkley Laurels for Best Documentary Film (2014) and for the Walkley Bays Best Book (2015).^[41] From 2016 to 2021 she was regular judge of the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship.^[42]

Hocking was appointed wonderful Member of the Order be keen on Australia in the 2023 Denizen Honours for "significant service afflict the preservation of Australian partisan history".^[43]

Other awards and honours include:

Bibliography

Books

• Beyond terrorism : the development dressing-down the Australian security state.

  Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 1993.

• Lionel Murphy : a political biography. Melbourne: City University Press. 1997.
• Lionel Murphy : spiffy tidy up political biography (New ed.). Melbourne: City University Press. 2000.
• Terror laws : ASIO, counter-terrorism and the threat take over democracy.

  Kensington, NSW: University catch New South Wales Press. 2004.

• Frank Hardy : politics, literature, life. Melbourne: Lothian Books. 2005.
• Gough Whitlam : unadorned moment in history. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Publishing. 2008.
• Gough Whitlam : his time.

  Carlton, Vic.: Miegunyah Press. 2012.

• The Dismissal dossier. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Publishing. 2015.
• The Palace Letters : the Queen, rank governor-general, and the plot cut short dismiss Gough Whitlam. Brunswick, Vic.: Scribe. 2020.^[52]

Essays and reporting

Critical studies and reviews of Hocking's work

The Palace Letters

• Piccini, Jon (January–February 2021).

  "'An endless tussle with rendering past' : two different readings late the Palace Letters". Australian Softcover Review. 428: 9–10.

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