Greens leader Larissa Waters has announced she will step down due to ill health, with a party room meeting scheduled for next week to choose her successor.
Waters replaced Adam Bandt as Greens leader after the 2025 election, in which Bandt lost his lower house seat in a shock result.
Waters was first elected to the Senate in 2011 but was forced to resign in July 2017 after discovering she held duel Canadian citizenship during parliament’s eligibility crisis.
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Ballot for new leader expected next week after Waters quits to manage pre-existing kidney disease that has ‘declined significantly’.
Greens leader Larissa Waters has announced she will step down due to ill health, with a party room meeting scheduled for next week to choose her successor.
Waters revealed on Monday night she has been managing a pre-existing kidney disease, but that her health had “declined significantly over the course of recent months”.
Waters replaced Adam Bandt as Greens leader after the 2025 election, in which Bandt lost his lower house seat in a shock result.
Waters said in a statement she would take a period of medical leave, before returning to parliament to represent Queensland in the Senate.
“Passing the torch on to the next leader of the party will put them in the best position to take the Greens to the next election, fighting for people, not the corporate interests that run Labor, Liberals and One Nation.”
Waters was first elected to the Senate in 2011 but was forced to resign in July 2017 after discovering she held duel Canadian citizenship during parliament’s eligibility crisis.
Waters was a co-deputy leader to Bandt, and to former leader Richard Di Natale at various times between 2015 and 2022.
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The Guardian AustraliaLarissa Waters steps down as Greens leader due to ill healthplain
The AgeLarissa Waters quits as Greens leader due to illnessplain
The West AustralianGreens leader suddenly quits after health 'downturn'plain
The West AustralianGreens Leader Larissa Waters to step down as party leader due to ill healthplain
ABC NewsGreens leader Larissa Waters steps down due to illnessplain
7NEWSLarissa Waters quits as Greens leader as pre-existing kidney condition ‘takes a downturn’plain
SBS NewsGreens leader Larissa Waters says she will step down due to health issueplain
WAtodayGreens leader steps down due to health issueplain
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