Larissa Waters breastfeeds her baby on the floor of the Australian Parliament

Senator Larissa Waters of Australia makes a landmark political history after breastfeeding on the floor of the country’s federal parliament. This coming about a year after she helped in making some changes to breastfeeding rules.

Senator Waters who just resumed duty after giving birth to her daughter, whose name is given as Alia Joy, and was forced to do what she did because her baby was hungry.

The 40-year-old mother took to twitter to express her pride, saying: “So proud that my daughter Alia is the first baby to be breastfed in the federal parliament! We need more women and parents in parliament.”

She also used the opportunity to call for more family-friendly and flexible workplaces and affordable childcare for everyone.

Her colleague Katy Gallagher said: “Women have been doing it in parliaments around the world. It is great to see it is able to occur now in the senate.

“Women are going to continue to have babies and if they want to do their job and be at work and look after their baby, the reality is that we are going to have to accommodate that.”

It was also reported in 2016 that an Icelandic MP breastfed her baby while she was speaking at the national parliament.

Eight years ago, the Greens Australian senator Sarah Hanson-Young had her two-year-old daughter taken out of the Australian Parliament.

The Lib Dem MP and equalities minister, Jo Swinson, has said that it is “bizarre” that MPs are banned from taking their babies into the Commons in the UK.

A study on tackling sexism in parliament said that breast-feeding should be allowed in the House of Commons to encourage firms to have more “family friendly” policies.