Dr Jenny Hocking is an award-winning film script writer and author. She has been with Film Art Doco since it's inception and has been involved in every major film and new media project.

Her book Beyond Terrorism, which informed the research for Conspiracy, was published by Allen & Unwin in September 1993.

Associate Professor Jenny Hocking is Australian Research Council QEII Research Fellow with the National Centre for Australian Studies (NCAS) at Monash University. Jenny is the immediate past Director of NCAS and was a 2002 Harold White Fellow of the National Library of Australia and has published widely on aspects of contemporary Australian politics, national security and labour history. She is the author of a biography of the late High Court Justice and former Attorney-General in the Whitlam government, Lionel Murphy, Lionel Murphy: a Political Biography (CUP. 1997, 2000) and co-editor of It's Time Again: Whitlam and Modern Labor (Circa Books. 2003).

In 2002 Associate Professor Hocking made written submissions to and was invited to give evidence before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Asio, Asis and DSD inquiries into the government's counter-terrorism security legislation. Her book on Australia's counter-terrorism developments post-September 11, Terror Laws: ASIO, counter-terrorism and the threat to democracy, was published by UNSWPress in 2004. Jenny Hocking is currently working on a biography of the late Australian author Frank Hardy.