Steph Cooke MP
Member for Cootamundra

​​Thursday, 17 November 2022 Women, children and all members of the community will be made safer as historic and life-saving coercive control reforms passed in Parliament this week. Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke welcomed the passage of the laws through Parliament. “Coercive control is a form of domestic abuse that involves patterns of behaviour that have the cumulative effect of denying victim-survivors their autonomy and independence.” “The new law will make it an offen

​​Thursday, 21 July 2022​ Coercive control is one step closer to being criminalised with the NSW Government taking the significant step of releasing a draft bill for public comment ahead of introduction to Parliament. Coercive control is a form of domestic abuse that involves patterns of behaviour which have the cumulative effect of denying victim-survivors their autonomy and independence. This abuse can involve physical, sexual, psychological or financial abuse. Member for