Steph Cooke MP
Member for Cootamundra

Junee Correctional Centre. Staff at Junee Correctional Centre have joined their peers in a statewide strike against the NSW Labor Government’s plan to close two more maximum security wings at Goulburn Correctional Centre. Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke said the industrial action by Corrective Services staff was yet another sign the corrections system is in crisis under the Minister for Corrections’ failed leadership. “Today’s statewide walkout is a damning indictment

Thursday, 30 October 2025 Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke says the latest statewide prison lockdown confirms the NSW corrections system is at breaking point, with the Minister for Corrections completely out of his depth and unable to control his own portfolio. “At the Junee Correctional Centre [JCC], our correctional officers are among the most dedicated professionals in the state. Yet just six months after the public handover, following more than 30 years of stable priv

Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke has slammed the NSW Minns Labor Government for its union-led takeover of Junee Correctional Centre,...

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Wednesday, 31 January 2024 Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke said the NSW Corrections Minister can be left in no doubt about the...

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​​Friday, 17 January 2020​ National Corrections Day will be acknowledged in the Cootamundra Electorate today, celebrating the 10,000 correctional staff in NSW; and the 25,000 frontline officers across Australia who work tirelessly rehabilitating offenders and keeping our communities safe. Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke MP said the day was a great opportunity to thank the region’s correctional staff, who play a vital role in keeping the community safe at Community Correct

​​Wednesday, 11 December 2019​ Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke today attended the opening of a 480 bed Maximum Security wing at the Junee Correctional Centre. The expansion was part of the NSW Government’s $3.8 billion investment in safer communities. Ms Cooke said the construction project had already made a positive contribution to the Junee economy. “At the peak of construction there were between 250-300 tradies working hard on site to ensure the new prison wing was on

Monday, July 30 2018 ​​ ​The Junee Correctional Centre expansion is over halfway complete, with more than 300 people employed on the bustling construction site every day. ​Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke said the speed of progress has been astounding to watch, with all four accommodation blocks now in place and expected to be complete in July 2019. ​“This is a major job initiative for the local area,” Ms Cooke said. ​“Anyone in Junee can tell you just how significant the

Tuesday, March 20 2018 The expansion of Junee Correctional Centre is on track with the first maximum-security inmates due to start arriving early next year. Cootamundra MP Steph Cooke said the pace of construction for the 480-bed expansion had started to pick up with dozens of construction workers on site. “We are now starting to see this investment in Junee taking shape with slabs being poured and structures starting to go up,” Ms Cooke said. “A larger prison means up to an

January 19, 2018 The men and women of Junee Correctional Centre are among almost 25,000 frontline correctional staff to be celebrated today as part of Australia’s first annual National Corrections Day. Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke MP said the day was vital to acknowledging the work of custodial and Community Corrections officers who keep the community safe in often dangerous situations. “These officers are our friends, family and neighbours and yet we often know little

Tuesday, December 5, 2017 Dozens of construction workers and tradies are working away on site at the Junee Correctional Centre’s 480 bed maximum security expansion which will create a further 130 jobs when complete. Member for Cootamundra, Steph Cooke MP, visited the construction site today to inspect the works and reported that the first delivery of modular cells had already arrived for the building of the inmate accommodation block. “The temporary gatehouse and administrati

November 12, 2017 Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke has welcomed the results of the largest prison contraband operation in the state’s history, which netted prison made weapons, prison brew, and a needle from Junee Correctional Centre. More than 1300 custodial officers and 90 Security Operations Group officers attached to Operation Purge searched 8,377 inmates, 5,079 cells and 576 common walls across 36 NSW prisons over an 11-week period. At the Junee Correctional Centre, wh