Carolyn Hirsh (born August 1, 1937) is an Australian politician. She currently sits as an independent member of the Victorian Legislative Council, representing Silvan Province. Though elected as a member of the Australian Labor Party, she was forced to resign from the party in September 2004, after being booked for driving a car without a license. This followed an incident earlier in the year when she had lost her license for driving home from a Labor function while under the influence of alcohol.

Hirsh was born in Melbourne, though she attended high school in the rural town of Colac. She trained as a teacher at Geelong Teachers College and then Monash University, where she also studied psychology. After graduating from university, she was employed as a teacher of children with disabilities, and also worked for some years in her family business. She joined the Labor Party in the 1960s, while involved with the campaign against the Vietnam War. Hirsh worked as a psychologist for the Victorian Department of Education from 1980 to 1985, when she was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Wantirna.

Hirsh was re-elected at the 1988 election, after which she was promoted to the position of Government Whip, but made an unsuccessful attempt to switch to the seat of Knox in 1992. After losing her seat, she returned to private practice as a psychologist. She made two unsuccessful attempts to move to federal politics, as the Labor candidate for the federal seat of La Trobe at the 1996 election and 1998 election. She taught at the Mountain District Women's Co-operative, in addition to her practice, from 1996 to 1998, before giving both away in 1999 and taking on a position at the Chisholm Institute of TAFE.

In the Labor landslide victory at the 2002 state election, Hirsh successfully won an upset victory in the Victorian Legislative Council seat of Silvan Province, which had previously been thought to be a safe Liberal seat. In 2003, she was selected as the chair of the parliamentary Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee.

In June 2004, Hirsh was driving home from a Labor function when she was breath-tested and found to have a blood alcohol reading of .07, more than the legal driving limit of .05. Her license was suspended for six months, and she was forced to resign from the Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee. In an odd coincidence, six weeks later, Andrew Olexander, the Liberal member for Silvan Province (there are two members for each Province in the Legislative Council) was also caught drink-driving, and received a similar penalty.

On September 17, 2004, Hirsh was again pulled over while driving by police, and was found to be driving while disqualified. The car she was driving also did not have a registration sticker displayed, which is illegal. That night, Premier Steve Bracks publicly demanded that Hirsh quit the party, stating that "there is no room in the Labor Party for people who had so openly flouted the law". Despite pressure from the Labor Party and the media, Hirsh announced her intention to serve out her term as an independent.

In October 2004, Hirsh told The Age newspaper that she had been battling depression, caused by the suicide of her eldest daughter in 2001.