Kelly Vea Vea has served on the Isaac Regional Council since 2012 and was elected unopposed as Mayor in 2024.
She has spent most of her life in Bowen Basin coal communities and her family has been in the Australian mining industry for four generations.
Isaac is the largest resource council in Queensland, home to more than 30 operating coal mines.
Kelly has previously successfully lobbied the Queensland Government to legislate Social Impact Assessments for new mine developments, and she continues to work with state government and mining companies to ensure local communities’ benefit from the mining industry and there’s a shared understanding of the social licence to operate.
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