Josh Burns (Macnamara, Australian Labor Party) | Hansard source

It could go a bit rogue, I'm not exactly sure what's about to happen, but we're going to go through it anyway. I wanted to speak this afternoon at the end of a long sitting period before the winter break about the changes that came in yesterday for paid parental leave. In doing so, I wanted to reflect on my own personal journey because this year I took parental leave from this place in Canberra. It was a decision that my partner and I discussed as to how we would make it possible. My partner is a member of the Victorian parliament, and she's exceptionally hardworking. We won't go into the political situations in our particular household, but I am constantly in admiration of how hard my beautiful partner, Georgie, works and how incredibly smart and dedicated she is to her job.

We made the decision that I was going to take two months off coming to Canberra in order to help raise our daughter, Lilah, who is very busy at the moment, and probably—

Mr Burns's baby having interjected—

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