About the Author

Jenny Hocking is Research Professor, Australian Research Council Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA) Fellow in the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University, the inaugural Distinguished Whitlam Fellow at the Whitlam Institute at Western Sydney University and a celebrated biographer, scholar and political commentator. Jenny is the author of the acclaimed two-volume biography Gough Whitlam: His Time and Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History.