The Greens have chosen Larissa Waters to lead the party after outgoing leader Adam Bandt lost his seat in Parliament at last weekend’s federal election.
Waters has been a Queensland Senator since 2011 and was the party’s spokesperson on women and democracy in the last parliamentary term.
She’s the second female leader of the federal Greens.
Here’s what you need to know.
Election
The Greens lost three seats in the lower house in Parliament, including the leader Adam Bandt.
Bandt blamed his electoral loss on his seat of Melbourne’s boundary changes and preference flows that favoured Labor.
The Greens now hold one lower house seat, down from four.
All 11 Greens Senators will return to Parliament.
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Larissa Waters
Larissa Waters has been a Greens Senator for Queensland since 2011.
She briefly stepped down due to her Canadian-Australian citizenship in 2017, along with multiple other Senators and MPs who were found to be ineligible to sit in Parliament with dual citizenship.
Waters returned to the Senate in 2018.
She became the first woman to breastfeed on the floor of the Senate.
Waters was elected as the Greens leader during a party meeting in Melbourne.
In her 13 years in Parliament, Waters has held numerous party positions, including as Greens spokesperson on women, environment, and climate change.
Senators Sarah Hanson-Young and Mehreen Faruqi were also in the running for the role.
