Personal Profile
Cr Stephens is married to Owen Stephens, has six children and eight grandchildren. Cr Stephens has been a licensed Real Estate Agent since 1985 and commenced her own company when moving to Casterton in 1992.
Affiliations/Memberships
Over the years Cr Stephens has been involved in several regionally significant projects - chairing the review by Australian National University of Land Use Change in the Green Triangle Region and is a foundation member of the Green Triangle Freight Action Plan Implementation Committee who have successfully advocated and achieved over $280mil for road funding for the region.
More recently Cr Stephens was a member of the Maroona Portland Rail Line Business Case Steering Committee that saw $150mil allocated in the Federal Budget in May 2024, which will ultimately take some 7,000 trucks movements off the roads leading to the Port of Portland and increase the efficiency in freight movements across the sector.
Since moving to Casterton, in 1992 Cr Stephens has emersed herself in the Casterton community as a volunteer through a number of different organisations and is a founding member of the Casterton Kelpie Association. Karen has spent many years developing the now nationally and internationally renowned Australian Kelpie Muster which is held on the King's Birthday weekend each June and was a driving force behind the development of the now completed Australian Kelpie Centre in Casterton.
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