<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A Queensland senator has given her first speech to parliament with some adorable back-up, taking her baby son into the chamber with her.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Corinne Mulholland was elected as a Labor senator for Queensland in this year's </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/federal-election-2025" rel="" target="_blank" title="May federal election"><span>May federal election</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She addressed parliament for the first time last night with her baby son Augie in her arms, acknowledging his bedtime was "fast approaching".</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/a-drop-in-the-ocean-students-welcome-hecs-debt-relief-but-say-it-wont-go-far-enough/4fe579f1-02c5-4585-9236-a39990d89dd9" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Young Aussies welcome HECS debt relief but say it's a 'drop in the ocean'</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I am praying Augie and I make it through this speech unscathed, so godspeed," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In her speech, she extolled the experience of parents around the country.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Augie is here not as a symbol but as a powerful reminder of why I am here. I'm a wife and a mum from the outer suburbs of Queensland," she said.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/corinne-mulholland-queensland-senator-maiden-speech-with-baby-in-arms/e96f4a8b-dedc-448d-ba1e-cad876518c4d" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/videos/national/cassius-turveys-killer-to-appeal-conviction-and-sentence/cmdfw1g4p00020hqitc3spyqc" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Cassius Turvey's killer to appeal conviction and sentence</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Mums and dads fundamentally belong in this chamber, not in theory but in the full, lived reality of working parents – the mess, the chaos, the juggle, the struggle and, of course, the magic and the mayhem that comes with raising children."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She said she hoped to bring some "mum energy" to the senate, recalling her experience on the campaign trail when she was still nursing Augie, then just three months old.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's not unlike other working parents who juggle returning to work with their caring responsibilities each and every day, and it has taken many, many parliamentarians decades to blaze a trail for working parents," she said.</span></div></div><div class="styles__Wrapper-sc-2o34ro-0 cmwkBV"><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><a href="/content/2025/07/23/10/03/today-in-history-july-24-what-happened-on-this-day"><img alt="" sizes="(min-width: 1024px) 636px, (min-width: 768px) 396px, 100vw" src="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/nfH9Al2utJ2CQvhGNZh-ujNaOa0=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Ff554bf2b-2e7e-4e0d-8cbf-4d1e4b235737" srcset="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/nfH9Al2utJ2CQvhGNZh-ujNaOa0=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Ff554bf2b-2e7e-4e0d-8cbf-4d1e4b235737 396w, https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/eA76VC_N2IGZKkYWH7rBXmZPQEI=/636x358/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Ff554bf2b-2e7e-4e0d-8cbf-4d1e4b235737 636w"/></a></div><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><div class="styles__Headline-sc-2o34ro-4 hpbOlz">With a jump from a cliff, two men changed thrillseeking</div><div class="styles__Button-sc-2o34ro-1 eBjlmW"><a class="styles__ButtonLink-sc-2o34ro-2 hqpklJ" href="/content/2025/07/23/10/03/today-in-history-july-24-what-happened-on-this-day">View Gallery</a></div></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Now the responsibility is on the shoulders of everyone here to make this kind of modern workplace flexibility a reality for people outside of this building.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I am committed to making the lives of working families just that little bit easier. I want families to have real choice and real flexibility in how, when and where they work."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mulholland and Augie did make it through the speech unscathed - though Augie had to be handed off to other members of the chamber before his mum finished.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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