Breaking all taboos an Australian senator became the first person to breastfeed a baby at Parliament.
The MP, identified as Larissa Waters, recently gave birth to her second child and returned to the parliament on Tuesday, but not alone. She brought the infant to the upper house of the senate and fed her during a vote.
"So proud that my daughter Alia is the first baby to be breastfed in the federal Parliament! We need more #women & parents in Parli," she wrote on Twitter.
A new set of rules were introduced in the Australian parliament last year to create a more family-friendly parliament in the wake of what has been described as a "baby boom" among politicians.?
Children were technically banned under the previous rule.
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Waters tweeted another picture of Kristie Marshall, a senate from Victoria, who was ejected from the parliament for breastfeeding her 11-day-old baby.
She proclaimed: ¡°Look how far we have come!¡±