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Jenny Hocking is the author of several books including the award-winning two-volume biography of Gough Whitlam, Gough Whitlam: His Time. Her latest book is The Palace Letters: The Queen, the Governor-General and the Plot to Dismiss Gough Whitlam. Her book on the dismissal will be published by Scribe Publishing in 2026.