The Project host Carrie Bickmore and radio host Steve Price have had an on-air stoush over the propriety of breastfeeding in public.

On Wednesday night’s episode of the popular panel show, the 2GB presenter was invited to discuss a controversial tweet he made about a woman breastfeeding her child while walking through an airport.

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“Discreet public breastfeeding no drama but walking through Qantas domestic !!” Mr Price tweeted on Tuesday.

Many on Twitter responded by accusing Mr Price of shaming mothers, while some leapt to his defence agreeing that breast-feeding while standing wasn’t “comfy”.

Ms Bickmore sided with those who felt Mr Price had criticised mothers, saying: “We feed where we want to, not where you us to”.

“Why do women have to do it discreetly, what is your issue with it?” said Bickmore, who has two children.

“I think walking through a crowded airport is an unusual place to breastfeed a child,” Price, who is also a father to two girls, responded.

“If my wife and I got off a plane — and we have two daughters, she breastfed both of them — and Wendy said to me ‘I think I might breastfeed Lucy while we walk to the car’ I would say ‘are you insane? Sit down and do it properly.'”

Mr Price denied he had a problem with breastfeeding in general, but felt walking through an airport was an inappropriate time and place to do it.

“In fact, three weeks ago in a production meeting at The Project you were breastfeeding your gorgeous little baby daughter, so if I had a problem I might have said something,” he said.

“Absolutely, but you used the words ‘discreet public breastfeeding okay’, which means you clearly think it should be done privately in a room away from you,” Ms Bickmore responded.

When Mr Price suggested the woman at the airport should have sat down, Ms Bickmore countered: “Well, I look forward to sitting on your lap in the meeting next Monday and doing it.”

Mr Price said he felt people were over-reacting to his tweet after one Twitter user accused him of violating human rights by posting about it.

“I can comment on what I like, when I like, and people can just go and jam it as far as I’m concerned.”