This photo shows Australian senator Larissa Waters breastfeeding her baby in parliament in 2017
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- Published on July 24, 2019 at 09:55
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The photo was published in this Facebook on July 12, 2019. It has been shared more than 24,000 times.
Below is a screenshot of the misleading post:
The post's caption states: “Australian Prime Minister breastfeeding her baby while delivering a speech at the Parliament. Mothers can do anything for their babies…!!”
The same photo was shared by a Facebook account in Nigeria here and in Pakistan here with a similar claim.
The claim is false; the photo shows Australian senator Larissa Waters breastfeeding her baby in 2017.
A reverse image search on Google found the photo published in this article on June 22, 2017, on the website for British newspaper The Telegraph.
The article contains a video which shows Larissa Waters, an Australian senator with the Greens party, breastfeeding her baby while talking about black lung disease.
Below is the video, which was sourced by The Telegraph via Storyful from the Australian Senate:
Waters can be seen breastfeeding her baby at the four seconds mark in the video.
The photo of Waters breastfeeding was also used in this article published by Buzzfeed on June 22, 2017.
Waters tweeted on June 22, 2017 about how she breastfed while addressing the Senate.
Below is a screenshot of the tweet:
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
— Larissa Waters (@larissawaters) June 22, 2017
The incumbent prime minister of Australia is Scott Morrison. He was sworn in as prime minister on August 24, 2018.
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