<div align="justify">An Australian Senator has set the bar for multi-tasking women by moving a motion in Parliament while breastfeeding her baby today.<br /><br />Greens senator Larissa Waters made history last month when she became the first woman to breastfeed inside the Federal Parliament. She did it again today, feeding her 14- week old baby Alia Joy while moving a motion in the Senate in Canberra.<br /><br /><br /></div>.<div align="justify"><br /><br /><br /><br />"First time I've had to move a Senate motion while breastfeeding! And my partner in crime moved her own motion just before mine, bless her," she tweeted after her address.<br /><br />Back in May, Senator Waters had said, "I am so proud that my daughter Alia is the first baby to be breastfed in the Federal Parliament."<br /><br />"We need more women and parents in Parliament. And we need more family-friendly and flexible workplaces, and affordable childcare, for everyone," she had said.<br /><br />Last year, parliamentary rules were changed to allow mothers to breastfeed in the chamber. Previously, children were banned in the chamber and breastfeeding mothers had to be given a proxy vote while they ducked outside to feed their babies.<br /><br />The policy was changed after a controversy involving Liberal MP Kelly O'Dwyer, who was asked to express more breastmilk, rather than feed her daughter outside the chamber and miss parliamentary duties.<br /><br />The Victorian MP was furious when the request initially was made.<br /><br />It is understood that the request came after two incidents in which O'Dwyer missed a division and a speaking engagement in Parliament because she was breastfeeding.<br /><br />In 2009, Sarah Hanson-Young, a Greens MP, was forced to remove her two-year-old child from the chamber -- an incident she described as "humiliating".</div>
<div align="justify">An Australian Senator has set the bar for multi-tasking women by moving a motion in Parliament while breastfeeding her baby today.<br /><br />Greens senator Larissa Waters made history last month when she became the first woman to breastfeed inside the Federal Parliament. She did it again today, feeding her 14- week old baby Alia Joy while moving a motion in the Senate in Canberra.<br /><br /><br /></div>.<div align="justify"><br /><br /><br /><br />"First time I've had to move a Senate motion while breastfeeding! And my partner in crime moved her own motion just before mine, bless her," she tweeted after her address.<br /><br />Back in May, Senator Waters had said, "I am so proud that my daughter Alia is the first baby to be breastfed in the Federal Parliament."<br /><br />"We need more women and parents in Parliament. And we need more family-friendly and flexible workplaces, and affordable childcare, for everyone," she had said.<br /><br />Last year, parliamentary rules were changed to allow mothers to breastfeed in the chamber. Previously, children were banned in the chamber and breastfeeding mothers had to be given a proxy vote while they ducked outside to feed their babies.<br /><br />The policy was changed after a controversy involving Liberal MP Kelly O'Dwyer, who was asked to express more breastmilk, rather than feed her daughter outside the chamber and miss parliamentary duties.<br /><br />The Victorian MP was furious when the request initially was made.<br /><br />It is understood that the request came after two incidents in which O'Dwyer missed a division and a speaking engagement in Parliament because she was breastfeeding.<br /><br />In 2009, Sarah Hanson-Young, a Greens MP, was forced to remove her two-year-old child from the chamber -- an incident she described as "humiliating".</div>