Mother of all parliaments
Senator breastfeeds as baby ‘passes a motion’
A POLITICIAN rises to her feet to address her parliament while breastfeeding her baby.
Colleagues smiled when Senator Larissa Waters spoke during a debate on coal mining as she cradled three-month-old Alia Joy.
The 40-year-old joked that she had moved a motion on the topic only moments after her daughter “moved her own motion”.
Alia Joy made history last month by becoming the first baby to be breastfed in Australia’s Federal Parliament after rules were relaxed – and has since been a regular sight in the capital Canberra.
Ms Waters, a Greens senator from Queensland, later tweeted Alia Joy was her “partner in crime”.
Rosalind Bragg, director of UK charity Maternity Action, said it was “a great example of balancing work and breastfeeding”.