Career
She is Research Professor and Australian Research Council Discovery Outstanding Research Award (DORA) Fellow with the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University. In 2013 she was appointed the inaugural Distinguished Whitlam Fellow at the Whitlam Institute, University of Western Sydney. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2010.
Hocking is a biographer, scriptwriter and scholar in Australian Studies, counter-terrorism and Australian politics.
She is the author and co-editor of several books including two books on terrorism, Beyond Terrorism: the Development of the Australian Security State, first published in 1993, and Terror Laws: ASIO, Counter-Terrorism and the Threat to Democracy and has presented written and in-person submissions to parliamentary inquiries into Australia"s counter-terrorism developments. She has written on these and other topics in several press Opinion pieces.
Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History, the first of Hocking"s two-volume biography of Gough Whitlam, was launched by the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in November 2008. Hocking is a regular guest of Writers Festivals, including the Melbourne and Sydney Writers Festivals.
