Jenny Hocking AM FASSA is an award-winning author, Emeritus Professor, and political commentator. She is the author of numerous books including the acclaimed two-volume biography of Gough Whitlam, Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History and Gough Whitlam: _His Time. _
Professor Hocking is well-known for her successful High Court action against the National Archives of Australia to release the secret ‘Palace letters’ between the Queen and the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, regarding Kerr’s dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in 1975. In a land-mark decision in 2020, the High Court of Australia found 6:1 in Jenny’s favour leading to the letters’ release. She has described their revelations about the Queen’s involvement in the Dismissal as ‘volcanic’.
Jenny Hocking’s latest book The Palace Letters: The Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam tells the story of this legal and political journey to know our own history.
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