Alia is now 14 weeks old - Waters returned to work when her daughter was just two months old and made global news by openly breastfeeding during Senate proceedings.
There was no putting off the needs of her baby daughter Alia when the time came for the Queenslander to rise and attempt to move a motion on black lung disease.
A politician in Australia has become the first woman in the country's history to speak in parliament while breastfeeding her child.
"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 we are going to have to accommodate that", she added.
After successfully moving her motion on black lung disease, Sen Waters tweeted: "First time I've had to move a senate motion while breastfeeding!"
"We need more women and parents in Parliament".
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"First time I've had to move a Senate motion while breastfeeding!" she wrote on twitter.
Waters' speech was a great moment, and a far cry from the incident that triggered the end of Parliament's archaic rule: then-chief government whip Scott Buchholz telling Liberal MP Kelly O'Dwyer to "express more breastmilk" to make a vote in 2015.
In 2016, a politician in Iceland breastfed her one-month-old child while speaking at the national parliament.
Greens colleague Sarah Hanson-Young made headlines in 2009 when her two-year-old daughter Kora was taken from her arms and ejected from the Senate chamber.
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