Progessor Jenny Hocking is the Head of the School of Journalism and Australian Studies at Monash University and is one of Australia’s best-known political biographers. Her work includes Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography (1997); and Frank Hardy: Politics Literature Life (2005). Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History (2008) was the first of a two-volume biography of the former Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. The subject of her current biography is, of course, still alive.