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PFAS INQUIRY EXPOSURES SHOCKING EPA INACTION TO PROTECT COMMUNITIES ALONG BELUBULA RIVER
Thursday, 11 September 2025​  Following an extensive inquiry, the NSW Select Committee on PFAS Contamination in Waterways and Drinking...

Steph Cooke MP
Sep 11
TANKS RUNNING EMPTY AS REGIONAL NSW MISSES OUT ON CRITICIAL WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
27 June 2025 The Minns Labor Government’s third budget has provided no new funding for the NSW Safe and Secure Water Program in a move...

Steph Cooke MP
Jun 27
COST OF LIVING UP, WATER INFRASTRUCTURE DOWN IN LABOR’S THIRD BUDGET
27 June 2025 The 2025–26 NSW Budget has highlighted the Minns Labor Government’s continued failure to invest in the critical water...

Steph Cooke MP
Jun 27


LAKE CENTENARY: A POSITIVE OUTCOME FOR TEMORA AND REGIONAL NSW
Thursday, 6 March 2025 Â Member for Cootamundra, Steph Cooke, has welcomed revisions to the Inland Water Sharing Plans, with the updated...

Steph Cooke MP
Mar 6


GOVERNMENT SITTING ON THEIR HANDS AMID PFAS CRISIS
7 February 2025  Shadow Minister for Water, Steph Cooke, has slammed the Government’s inaction in response to the unfolding PFAS crisis...

Steph Cooke MP
Feb 7


GOVERNMENT FINALLY RELEASES DIMINISHED LACHLAN REGIONAL WATER STRATEGY
Monday, 13 January 2025 Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke has condemned the Minns Labor Government’s Lachlan Regional Water Strategy,...

Steph Cooke MP
Jan 13


MINNS LABOR GOVERNMENT FAILING REGIONAL AND RURAL COMMUNITIES ON WATER INFRASTRUCTURE AND PFAS CONTAMINATION
9 December 2024 The Minns Labor Government’s neglect of the Safe and Secure Water Program has left regional and rural communities...

Steph Cooke MP
Dec 9, 2024


REFRESHING NEWS FOR WYANGALA AS WATER TREATMENT PLANT CONSTRUCTION COMPLETED
Thursday, 7 November 2024 Â Member for Cootamundra and Shadow Minister for Water, Steph Cooke, has welcomed the completion of the...

Steph Cooke MP
Nov 7, 2024


PENRITH’S PUMP STATION STENCH
Shadow Minister for Water, Steph Cooke, has highlighted a smelly concern in one of Sydney’s newest sporting precincts, at a Shadow...

Steph Cooke MP
Oct 21, 2024


LACHLAN VALLEY WATER FOCUSES ON FUTURE CHALLENGES
5 September 2024 Member for Cootamundra and Shadow Minister for Water Steph Cooke reaffirmed her commitment to water security for...

Steph Cooke MP
Sep 5, 2024


STOP THE MURRAY BUYBACKS, PREMIER
14 June 2024 A recent parliamentary sitting made it clear the NSW Premier thinks that simply talking in Question Time about being against...

Steph Cooke MP
Jun 14, 2024


MINISTER TREADING WATER ON RURAL AND REGIONAL ISSUES
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 Â Â Shadow Water Minister Steph Cooke is calling on the Water Minister to take a more proactive approach during...

Steph Cooke MP
Mar 26, 2024


BOILING CONCERNS FOR WATER
12 March 2024 It's enough to make your blood boil. Or in the case of residents of regional NSW, your water boil. Thirteen regional towns...

Steph Cooke MP
Mar 12, 2024


GOVERNMENT ADRIFT ON WATER POLICY
28 February 2024 Â After almost 12 months in the job, the Water Minister has failed to come up with a plan for regional water security,...

Steph Cooke MP
Feb 28, 2024
MINISTER MUST ACT NOW ON BOOROWA WATER
Tuesday, 23 January 2024 Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke is calling on Water Minister Rose Jackson to take immediate action to fix...

Steph Cooke MP
Jan 23, 2024


ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ON BASIN PLAN SECRECY
Thursday, 30 November 2023 Â NSW Shadow Water Minister Steph Cooke says the passage of Commonwealth legislation rewriting the rules of...

Steph Cooke MP
Nov 30, 2023


WATER STRATEGY LEAVES LACHLAN REGION UP THE CREEK
Tuesday, 7 November 2023 Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke says the current Lachlan Regional Water Strategy is alarmingly bereft of any...

Steph Cooke MP
Nov 7, 2023


PLAN TO INCREASE DAM WALL HAS BURST
20 September 2023 No foresight and no idea. Those few words sum up what many believe was a disastrous decision by the NSW Labor...

Steph Cooke MP
Sep 20, 2023


DAM DECISION RAISES CONCERNS OVER LABOR’S COMMITMENT TO REGIONAL NSW
Wednesday, 13 September 2023 Member for Cootamundra and Shadow Water Minister Steph Cooke says the NSW Labor Government’s decision to rip...

Steph Cooke MP
Sep 13, 2023
GOVERNMENT ON NOTICE OVER WATER FUNDING CUTS
Wednesday, 23 August 2023 Â Member for Cootamundra, Steph Cooke has written to Water Minister Rose Jackson, putting the NSW State...

Steph Cooke MP
Aug 23, 2023
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