Jenny Hocking
Professor Jenny Hocking is a Research Professor and Australian Research Council Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA) Fellow with the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University. She is the author of two major biographies, Li
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Professor Jenny Hocking is a Research Professor and Australian Research Council Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA) Fellow with the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University. She is the author of two major biographies, Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography, shortlisted in the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature: National Non-Fiction Awards, and Frank Hardy: Politics, Literature, Life, shortlisted in the NSW Premier's History Awards. Hocking has also written extensively on counter-terrorism and democracy, including Terror Laws: ASIO, Counter-terrorism and the Threat to Democracy.
The first volume of Whitlam's biography, Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History, was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year, the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and the Prime Minister's Awards for Literature 2009, longlisted for the Walkley Awards Non-Fiction Book Award 2009 and a finalist in the Magarey Medal for Biography 2010. This acclaimed second volume, Gough Whitlam: His Time, has been short-listed for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards (National History Prize) 2013, the Queensland Literary Awards 2013, long-listed in the NiB Waverley Awards for Literature 2013 and was a finalist in the National Biography Award 2013.
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