Liberal party candidate, Zed Seselja, and his wife Ros, welcomed their daughter Grace on September 2. Grace Seselja was born at 11:15 am weighing 4.5 kg (9lb 15oz), and she joins older siblings Michael, Tommy, William and Olivia. Grace is thirteen years younger than her eldest brother.
Zdenko or “Zed” was a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly from 2004 to 2013, and was Opposition Leader from 2007 to 2013. He won the electorate of Brindabella in last year’s territory elections, but this year he stood down as party leader to run for the senate in this year’s Federal Election, which is on September 7.
Zed’s campaigning duties have been scaled back because of Grace’s birth, and he is visiting the hospital several times a day. Ros and Grace will be leaving hospital soon.
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Why does a politician having a baby make news. Babies are born every day and each one is just as special regardless of who their parents are. It shouldn’t be that only politicians babies are photographed for the paper.
It’s the election tomorrow, would be my guess. I don’t think it would practicable for every single baby born to be photographed by the papers, but there are LOTS of babies photographed in the paper each day (mostly local papers), many more than I could ever cover myself.
Some of them are in the Birth Announcements category, which is updated on Fridays, and if you check the Babies in the News category, there are some there, and that’s updated every 3 months.
Oh lovely, albeit predictable but lovely nonetheless! He comes into my work every so often (quite nice too).
Oh, next time he comes in you must ask him how the baby is getting on! 🙂