Derek Fielding Memorial Lecture: Aimee McVeigh on Realising Rights Close to Home

Topic: The role of the community services sector in respecting, protecting, and fulfilling human rights

Our Speaker

Aimee McVeigh
CEO - Queensland Council of Social Services and leader of the successful campaign for a Human Rights Act for Queensland

This year our speaker for our flagship lecture will be Aimee McVeigh, the successful leader of the Human Rights Act for Queensland campaign. 

Aimee has had a long and storied career practicing in law, with a particular focus on human rights and discrimination, guardianship, estate planning, child protection and domestic violence. She has worked in various senior and advisory roles, including at the Disability Royal Commission, Disability Law Queensland and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Legal and Advocacy Service, as well as having been engaged by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples as a gender advisor, and working with a number of non-profit organisations in Queensland, including
during the Child Abuse Royal Commission.

Aimee holds qualifications in Communications and Law, including a Master of Laws (International and Public Law) from the University of Melbourne. She has been nominated as a finalist for the 2017 Australian of the Year awards and the 2019 Australian Human Rights Commission Human Rights Medal.

As CEO of the Queensland Council of Social Services (QCOSS), the peak body for the social service sector in Queensland, Aimee continues to be a strong advocate for equality, opportunity and wellbeing for all Queenslanders.