MP and mum-to-be Kirstie Marshall will be able to use a new baby-changing and feeding room in Parliament after she gives birth to her second child in July.
Two years after Ms Marshall was thrown out of Parliament for breastfeeding her newborn daughter, she will finally be able to enjoy the privacy of a baby room.
But plans for a nursery at Parliament have yet to go ahead, despite Victoria Premier Steve Bracks saying in February 2003 that discussions were taking place to set up a creche.
Speaker Judy Maddigan said a new baby changing room, in a soon-to-be disused gym on the first floor, would be available for use by both MPs and visitors within the next fortnight.
Ms Maddigan announced in April 2003, weeks after Ms Marshall unwittingly became a champion for women's breastfeeding rights, that she wanted to set up a breastfeeding room.
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