“It was nice to receive the recognition,” she said.
“But I’ve just been doing my job.”
Ms Gregory is the Principal Lawyer at Knowmore, an independent legal service for parties engaging with the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse as well as being a member of the National Redress Scheme for victims.
She helped establish the Legal Counselling and Referral Centre, Darlinghurst, 1995, and then additional centres at Claymore, Macquarie Fields and Airds.
“We set up the centres and clinics in these public housing estates to help women escape domestic violence,” she said.
“I’ve also done a lot of work with refugees but I feel my clients have given me far more than I could give back.
“The reason I got into law in the first place was to help people and I feel the work has made me a better person and given me an understanding of some of the voices which are never heard in the community.”
Queen’s Birthday Honours
DEVOTED to the communities in which she has worked for over 40 years, Ashfield’s Prue Gregory has received an Order of Australia Medal and is among 933 Australians named on the Queen’s Birthday 2020 Honours List for service to the law and to the community.