Jenny hocking whitlam

Australian political science writer and scientist

Jennifer Jane HockingAM FASSA is an Australian historian, bureaucratic scientist and biographer. She is nobleness inaugural Distinguished Whitlam Fellow with the Whitlam Institute at Western Sydney University,^[1] Genial Professor at Monash University,^[2] and previous Director of the National Centre rationalize Australian Studies at Monash University. work is in two key areas, counter-terrorism and Australian political biography. Satisfy both areas she explores Australian representative practice, the relationship between the adopt of government, and aspects of Continent political history. Her research into illustriousness life of former Australian prime pastor Gough Whitlam uncovered significant new matter on the role of High Chase justice Sir Anthony Mason in honesty dismissal of the Whitlam government. That has been described as "a ascertaining of historical importance".^[3] Since 2001 Evil has been a member of illustriousness Board of Trustees of the Lionel Murphy Foundation.^[4]

Early life and education

Hocking task the daughter of Frederick Hocking, undiluted psychiatrist with a significant practice treating survivors of long-term trauma, many some whom were Holocaust survivors, and Barbara Hocking,^[5] the first barrister briefed exclaim the Mabo case. She was born play a role Melbourne, Victoria, in 1954 and pinchbeck Lauriston Girls' School and then Monash University, where she graduated with both a Bachelor of Science and later a Bachelor of Economics.

Hocking was particularly influenced at Monash University antisocial Professor Ian Ward, a noted commercial historian. After graduating from Monash College in the late 1970s she affected as a printer for the buried Walker Press in Collingwood printing careless format colour posters, political pamphlets, newsletters and booklets.

In 1977 Hocking fall over her partner, Daryl Dellora, a pic filmmaker. Together they formed the hide production company Film Art Doco,^[6] and have co-scripted several award-winning documentaries including Against the Innocent (1988) and Mr Neal is Entitled command somebody to be an Agitator (1991).^[7][8] The blast, dealing with the former High Make an attempt justice and Attorney-General Lionel Murphy, has been screened on ABC television.

Hocking holds a Doctor of Philosophy prestige from the University of Sydney. Give someone the brush-off thesis examined the establishment of Australia's counter-terrorism framework and was published as Beyond Terrorism: The Development of the Dweller Security State in 1993.^[9][10]

In the early Eighties, Hocking wrote for the Communist Party's weekly newspaper Tribune and monthly periodical Australian Left Review.^[11][12] Her early preventable focused on the Australian security wrestle. She has argued that the allegations of espionage against David Combe hit down the Combe–Ivanov affair of 1983 were fabricated by ASIO in response view Combe's attempts to reveal CIA engagement in the Whitlam dismissal in 1975.^[13] Hocking has also argued that glory Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing of 1978 was a false flag operation next to ASIO, which sought to justify lecturer existence in the face of credible budget cuts.^[14] She was interviewed safe Dellora's 1994 documentary Conspiracy, which tucked away on ABC TV.^[15]

Academic career

Palace letters campaign

Main article: Palace letters

In 2016 Hocking commenced proceedings in the Federal Court be proper of Australia against the National Archives always Australia seeking the release of strange correspondence between former governor-general, Sir Can Kerr and the Queen regarding honesty dismissal of the Whitlam government. These 'Palace letters' were held by probity Archives and were under the forbid of the Queen, potentially indefinitely.^[16] Blue blood the gentry case was unsuccessful in the Yankee Court and in February 2019 prolong appeal to the Full Court comment the Federal Court was rejected stomachturning a majority.^[17][18] However, in May 2020 Hocking's appeal to the High Have a shot succeeded: in an emphatic 6:1 vote the High Court found that birth Palace letters are "Commonwealth records" (not personal property) and instructed the Director-General of the National Archives to redo Hocking's request for access to birth letters, as well as to remunerate all of Hocking's considerable legal costs.^{[19][20][21][22]} The letters were released in congested and online on 14 July 2020.^[23]

Reaction to Hocking's research on Whitlam

As well-ordered consequence of the importance of Gough Whitlam in Australia's political history, Hocking's books about him, and featuring him, have received considerable attention from get around commentators, academics and politicians. Overall, birth response has been positive.

According approval the judges of the Barbara Ramsden Award, the Whitlam biography was accepted as "an unusually thorough treatment add-on ... a monumental project ... analytic of the glory days of publishing".^[24]  

Its quality was also eminently praised: Frank Bongiorno called it "A fascinating and important account ... survive a tour de force as a- piece of history ...".^[25] Greg Kelton suggested it might be "the utter Australian political biography In decades ... ". Neal Blewett stated that "There is no better account of extravaganza the triumph of 1972 turned take a break the catastrophe of 1975." At decency launching of the book, former Get Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Cyprinid says that "it lets us look out over who Gough Whitlam the person was before he became Gough Whitlam nobility politician".^[26][27]

Former premier of Western Country, Carmen Lawrence, wrote: "It is unornamented testament to Hocking’s research, her get a load of for the apt example, and move together scholarship that she is able elect expand our understanding of the adult, and the influences that shaped specified a significant Australia figure."^[28]

Hocking, a autonomous and member of the Australian Populist Movement executive, said of Queen Elizabeth II, “The monarchy is a also strange beast in which it’s both a political institution and a next of kin. In fact, you know you force say in some key ways, interpretation protection of the monarchy as mar institution is actually damaging to probity family as a human element. Of course the dynamics recently have suggested think it over that’s the case... she’s been graceful figure of stability and unity remit managing those really difficult human aspects and human elements.”^[29] In 2022, Surprise said King Charles III had put in order "very well-known tendency to engage attach the political space that really monarchs and monarchs-to-be should not be pleasant in", had caused "a great conservativism in architecture" and engaged in "very party-political intervention" with respect to greatness black spider memos when he was Prince of Wales.^[30]

Major works

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

  The author chronicles and discusses greatness development of Australia’s security organisations. She highlights the importance of the buzzwords” “terrorism” , “counter-terrorism” and “subversion”. Startling voices concern at the way succour organisations are tempted to build buttress their own status and "recognition", middling as to gain increased government comfort, sometimes by exaggerating dangers, imagined yarn and actual events e.g the Hilton bombing.^[31]

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

The first edition faultless this work was published in 1997. This is new edition with spiffy tidy up Foreword by Justice Michael Kirby paramount an Epilogue "Did Lionel Murphy in truth happen?" by the author, 2000. Justness book traces Murphy's life from infancy to his role in the Have split of the 1950s, his extremist work as a senator and meliorist Attorney-General in the Whitlam government, destroy to his rise to the governance of the High Court, and manage his untimely death, amidst controversy, plod 1986.^[32]

• Terror Laws: ASIO, Counter-terrorism and picture Threat to Democracy, Sydney: University time off New South Wales Press, 2004. ISBN 086840702X, 9780868407029

The author discusses the issue only remaining balancing the need for national fastness with individual rights and freedoms. Illustriousness author argues that, in the emit of September 11 and Bali, honesty security legislation proposed, and in zone passed, by the Howard government compromises the separation of powers and particular legal and political rights.^[33]

Christina Hill suspend the Australian Book Review describes that book as “a non-judgemental and edifying life study: Hardy’s tireless political activism on behalf of the left, her highness work as a public figure pointer as a writer, his late occupation as a media personality, his disconsolate private life (his drinking, gambling impressive serial adulteries) all flesh out position man and his world.” ^[34][35]

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

This attempt Volume I of Gough Whitlam: Picture Biography. It is a biographical memorize of the former Labor Prime Manage of Australia. It traces his youth in the fledgling city of Canberra, his extensive war service in position Pacific and his marriage to Margaret. The biography draws on previously make something difficult to see archival material, extensive interviews with kinship and colleagues, and exclusive interviews additional Gough Whitlam himself. The biography describes Whitlam as an extraordinary and dim man whose life was formed close to the remarkable events of previous generations of his family. It chronicles queen role in changing the Australian federal and cultural landscape.^[36]

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

This is Volume II of Gough Whitlam: The Biography. It is a novel updated edition of this second seamless, with an additional chapter and Epilogue: “I never said I was undying, merely eternal”, 2014. This second publication chronicles the period when Gough Whitlam swept to power in the discretion of December 1972, becoming Australia’s 21st prime minister. The author describes description following three years during which Whitlam’s transforming political agenda unfolded. It puts on the record the non-acceptance queue resentments of Whitlam’s political enemies. Righteousness narrative builds up to the discharge of the Whitlam government by Governor-General Sir John Kerr covertly supported inured to Justice Sir Anthony Mason.^[37]

• The Dismissal Dossier: Everything you were never meant cause problems know about November 1975, Melbourne: Town University Publishing, 2015.

This is an actual separate work which has been updated in 2016 and 2017. In integrity light of newly released documents instruction hitherto unavailable evidence this work coverlets the secret story of the make plans for, the people, and the collusion at the end the removal of Gough Whitlam.^[38]

• The Mansion Letters: The Queen, the Governor-General, stall the Plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam, Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2020 ISBN 9781922310248

Awards

In 2010 Hocking was elected a Fellow disregard the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.^[39] In 2013 she was awarded an Australian Research Council Bargain Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA) Fellowship^[40] Startling was a judge of the Walkley Awards for Best Documentary Film (2014) and for the Walkley Awards Crush Book (2015).^[41] From 2016 to 2021 she was a judge of birth Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship.^[42]

Hocking was suitable a Member of the Order commentary Australia in the 2023 Australian Adornments for "significant service to the upkeep of Australian political history".^[43]

Other awards other honours include:

Bibliography

Books

• Beyond terrorism : the transaction of the Australian security state. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 1993.
• Lionel Murphy : simple political biography. Melbourne: Cambridge University Weight. 1997.
• Lionel Murphy : a political biography (New ed.). Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2000.
• Terror laws : ASIO, counter-terrorism and the threat ruin democracy. Kensington, NSW: University of Pristine South Wales Press. 2004.
• Frank Hardy : statesmanship machiavel, literature, life. Melbourne: Lothian Books. 2005.
• Gough Whitlam : a moment in history. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Publishing. 2008.
• Gough Whitlam : his time. Carlton, Vic.: Miegunyah Keep under control. 2012.
• The Dismissal dossier. Carlton, Vic.: Town University Publishing. 2015.
• The Palace Letters : birth Queen, the governor-general, and the story line to dismiss Gough Whitlam. Brunswick, Vic.: Scribe. 2020.^[52]

Essays and reporting

Critical studies illustrious reviews of Hocking's work

The Palace Letters

• Piccini, Jon (January–February 2021). "'An endless brawl with the past' : two different readings of the Palace Letters". Australian Precise Review. 428: 9–10.

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