Thursday, 30 May 2024

Mother’s Day

Bev McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (09:59): I rise to say a big shout-out to the mothers of this state. It was Mother’s Day on 12 May, and mothers are an integral part of our society – that is, biological mothers who give birth to their children. I have done that; my daughter has done that. I am a very proud grandmother of three children. They do it tough often because there is a lot of stress often in trying to maintain a job while caring for their children. Mother’s Day is a very important recognition of the wonderful work that mothers do in our society. They are vitally important obviously to keeping the population going. If we did not have mothers who give birth to children – and many of them are breastfeeders, like I was. I am certainly not a chestfeeder; I am a breastfeeder. I think it is most important that mothers who give birth to children are recognised and that we pay every respect to the extraordinary contribution they make to this population and to our society.