She was a Family Team member of the Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly for Canberra from 1982 to 1986.
Hocking was adopted as a baby and raised in country South Australia in what the Australian Women's Register describes as a "dysfunctional home", where she "experienced difficult and stressful formative years".
[1][2] She was heavily involved in conservative politics in the Australian Capital Territory, serving as the ACT co-ordinator of anti-feminist group Women Who Want To Be Women, president of the Canberra branch of the Australian Family Association, and being involved with the National Alliance for Christian Leadership.
A vehement opponent of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, she was quoted as stating "Is there no-one who can see that the women who hate men are castrating them with their sex discrimination Bills and making them eunuchs in their own kingdoms?"
She was also a strong supporter of Lindy Chamberlain, founding the National Freedom Council as a co-ordinating body for her defence, and setting up a Plea for Justice committee in the ACT.