12 Facts About Jenny Hocking

Jenny Hocking's work is in two key areas, counter-terrorism and Australian political biography.

Since 2001 Jenny Hocking has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Lionel Murphy Foundation.

Jenny Hocking was born in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1954 and attended Lauriston Girls' School and then Monash University, where she graduated with both a Bachelor of Science and subsequently a Bachelor of Economics.

Jenny Hocking was particularly influenced at Monash University by Professor Ian Ward, a noted economic historian.

In 1977 Jenny Hocking met her partner, Daryl Dellora, a documentary filmmaker.

Jenny Hocking holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Sydney.

Jenny Hocking has argued that the Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing of 1978 was a false flag operation by ASIO, which sought to justify its existence in the face of possible budget cuts.

Jenny Hocking was interviewed for Dellora's 1994 documentary Conspiracy, which screened on ABC TV.

In 2016 Jenny Hocking commenced proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against the National Archives of Australia seeking the release of secret correspondence between former governor-general, Sir John Kerr and the Queen regarding the dismissal of the Whitlam government.

In 2010 Jenny Hocking was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

In 2013 she was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award Fellowship Jenny Hocking was a judge of the Walkley Awards for Best Documentary Film and for the Walkley Awards Best Book.

Jenny Hocking was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2023 Australian Honours for "significant service to the preservation of Australian political history".