Steph Cooke MP
Member for Cootamundra

​​Tuesday, 20 October 2020​ Domestic violence victim-survivors and their animals across the Cootamundra electorate will have greater protections under proposed Apprehended Domestic Violence Order (ADVO) reforms. Cootamundra Steph Cooke said animals are often used as an instrument of coercive control designed to torment victims. “Perpetrators use animals to intimidate, retaliate against, and manipulate victims during the relationship and after separation, as punishment fo