Babies in the Beehive: the man behind New Zealand's child-friendly parliament

From bottle feeding infants in the chamber to a playground on the front lawn, speaker Trevor Mallard has welcomed infants into the corridors of power

Trevor Mallard thought his days nursing babies might be over when he became speaker of New Zealand’s parliament in late 2017.

But the grandfather who has raised three children of his own has overseen a baby boom in the Beehive – as the main parliamentary building is known – and has become determined to make life easier for parents in the country’s halls of power.

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The atmosphere is lighter somehow – it does feel quite welcoming now

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