By Kylie Stevens For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 08:59 GMT, 24 February 2019 | Updated: 09:08 GMT, 24 February 2019
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A 'bizarre and discriminatory ban' on bottle-feeding fathers in the Western Australian state parliament will remain in place.
While mothers may soon be welcome to breastfeed their newborns in the chamber, parliamentary dads who want to bottle-feed their babies will remain unwelcome.
The Labor state government is lobbying to improve arrangements for serving MP mothers, who currently have to leave the chamber to feed their babies.
But changes to standing orders which will allow breastfeeding MP mothers to remain in the chamber to feed their babies while parliament is sitting haven't been extended bottle-feeding.
Greens Senator Larissa Waters was the first MP to breastfeed their baby in federal parliament in 2017 when she fed her daughter while delivering a motion
A change to standing orders was scheduled to be debated in parliament last week, but the motion was pulled by the Labor caucus.
The move has since been described
