Helen Kelly

Union leader Helen Kelly spent years as an activist and advocate for workers' rights, as these images from her career show.

Helen Kelly joins a protest outside a Talley's-owned AFFCO meat plant in 2012.

The CTU put up billboards - including Ms Kelly's name - ahead of the 2014 general election.

Helen Kelly took over the presidency of the CTU in 2007 (and is pictured here on Workers' Memorial Day 2014).

Ms Kelly gives a speech following a march to Parliament to mark Workers' Memorial Day 2014.

The union leader speaks to reporters in one of many media scrums over the years (2014).

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Union leader Helen Kelly has spent years as an activist and advocate for workers' rights, as these images from her career show.