Governments represent the people, but unless the Australian community has suddenly become overwhelmingly white, middle-class and male, there are a lot of voices missing from the fray.
Thatโs why Greens Senator Larissa Waters bringing her bub to work with her is so important.
So many Australian mums canโt stop working because theyโve had a baby and Waters is making it her mission to normalise that fact.
Despite the overwhelmingly positive response, thereโs been a few ~~ignorant idiots~~ commenters that have taken issue with her behaviour.
^ Itโs funny how the trolls never seem to understand the concept of punctuation.
Despite the dangers of trawling through any comment section, we found even more comments disparaging the senator for feeding her child.
^ Not a courtroom, geniuses.
When someone tried to defend her choice to breastfeed at work, there was this enlightening response:
Who knew the answer to childcare was just not having babies? So simple, but so smart.
Ms Waters told BuzzFeed News she had to breastfeed while giving the speech because, โblack lung disease is back among coal miners in Queensland and Alia was hungryโ.
She added that she hopes her choice sends a message to other young women that they too belong in places of power, including parliament.
โWomen have always worked and reared children, whether that work was paid in the workplace or unpaid in the home. I hope [this] helps to normalise breastfeeding and remove any vestige of stigma against breastfeeding a baby when they are hungry.โ
However, the overwhelming support she received left her with mixed feelings.
โThe fact that it is news that a young womanโฆ can breastfeed in parliament, goes to show how far we have to go in making our parliament look like our community,โ she said.
โItโs been 116 years in the coming, and itโs tragic that itโs taken that long.โ