Congratulations Carly
Congratulations to our Delegate Carly Hanson who is our Emma Miller Awardee for 2023.
Queensland Unions has proudly hosted the annual the Emma Miller Awards
since 1997. They are a tribute to the pioneering spirit of Emma Miller, a
strong advocate for workers’ and women’s rights in Queensland. The
award celebrates the achievements of contemporary union women and
recognises rank and file female members for their commitment and
achievements.
Carly is a qualified lawyer with an interest in human rights and access
to justice, governance and sustainability of non-profit organisations,
worker wellbeing, and equality for women, and has been involved with the
SACS sector since 2008. She works as a Sector Sustainability
Coordinator at Community Legal Centres Queensland. Before starting with
CLCQ, Carly held paid and volunteer positions in the SACS sector,
including Working Women Queensland/Basic Rights Queensland and Women’s
Legal Service.
Carly
assists members to provide effective, high quality services to their
communities. She supports the development of organisational capacity of
member organisations, including undertaking accreditation and quality
improvement processes to support members' professional standards, and
through projects and initiatives that promote innovative and
collaborative services.
Carly has been a member of The Services Union since 2016, a delegate at
Community Legal Centres Queensland for the past five years, a member of
the SACS IDC for the past few years and a delegate at Women’s Legal
Service prior to that. Carly was heavily involved in campaigning for
Portable Long Service Leave for the SACS sector, attending meetings with
Queensland MPs as a Delegate, participating as a member of the Office
of Industrial Relations Taskforce, writing submissions on behalf of the
community legal sector and appearing before the Queensland Parliamentary
Committee examining the Community Services Industry (Portable Long Service Leave) Bill 2019.
Thank you and congratulations Carly.