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 Alia Joy Waters is just weeks old. But she has already made political history in Australia by becoming the first baby to be breast fed in the Australian parliament. 
 
 Senator Larissa Waters returned to parliament today for the first time since giving birth to her second daughter earlier this year, bringing Alia Joy with her while she voted. 
 
 And when her baby needed it, she didn't hesitate to feed her. 
 
 Afterwards, she wrote on Twitter: "So proud that my daughter Alia is the first baby to be breastfed in the federal Parliament! We need more #women & parents in Parli." 

 THE Australian Senate is used to childish behaviour but next week could deliver a legitimate outcry from an actual child. 
 
 Just 10 weeks after giving birth, Queensland Senator Larissa Waters is returning to work with her daughter, Alia Joy, in tow – and she plans to breastfeed her in the Senate chamber. 
 
 media_camera Senator Larissa Waters at work with partner Jeremy Gates, who has scaled back his digital marketing agency to be a full-time dad. Picture: Jono Searle 
 
 Breastfeeding has been permitted in the chamber since 2003, but Alia will be the first. 
 
 “If she’s hungry, that’s what you do, you feed your baby,” Senator Waters said. 
 
 The 40-year-old Greens senator last year successfully extended breastfeeding rules in the Senate to include caring for an infant. 
 
 media_camera Kelly O’Dwyer – with then four-month-old Olivia – managed to survive a push to unseat her as a Cabinet minister after she gave birth. media_camera Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young in 2009, around the time that two-year-old Kora was infamously ejected from the Senate. 
 
 She will be joined in Canberra by her partner, Jeremy Gates, who has scaled back his digital marketing agency to be a full-time dad. He can bring Alia into the chamber when she needs some mother time. 
 
 “I hope she doesn’t squawk her head off too much, but she’s probably going to be better behaved than many of the people in that room,” Senator Waters said. 
 
 In 2009, Senator Sarah ­Hanson-Young’s two-year-old daughter, Kora, was infamously ejected from the Senate. 
 
 Senator Waters said the rule changes were designed to encourage more parenting Australians to enter parliament to ensure it is representative of the community. 
 
 “It is important we make all workplaces more family friendly, not just parliament,” she said. 
 
 Senator Waters said the recent unsuccessful push to unseat Cabinet minister and fellow new mum Kelly O’Dwyer shows how women still face workplace discrimination. 
 
 “That was atrocious, but sadly, it’s not that uncommon,” she said. “One in five women experience severe discrimination on the basis of their parenthood. It is a very sobering statistic, and it’s really disheartening for people to see that even Cabinet ministers can be subjected to that as well.”
– Australian Sen. Larissa Waters made history with her 2-month-old daughter Alia Joy on Tuesday. The Australian Greens party member became the first mother to breastfeed a baby in the Parliament chamber, winning praise for setting an example for mothers in the workplace, the Telegraph reports. Other lawmakers in countries including Argentina and Spain have breastfed their babies in parliament chambers, and Icelandic MP Unnur Bra Konradsdottir fed her baby while delivering a speech last year, though breastfeeding remains banned in parliaments in countries such as the UK. Last year, Waters introduced rule changes that made it easier for lawmakers to bring children to work, saying it is "important we make all workplaces more family friendly, not just Parliament," the Courier-Mail reports. "I'll be having a few more weeks off but will soon be back in Parliament with this little one in tow," Waters wrote in a Facebook post announcing Alia Joy's birth in March. "She is even more inspiration for continuing our work to address gender inequality and stem dangerous climate change. (And yes, if she's hungry, she will be breastfed in the Senate chamber.)"