Queensland senator says she wants to see ‘politics with heart’ and will remain ‘firm but constructive’ against Labor
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The Queensland senator Larissa Waters has been elected unopposed as the new federal Greens leader.
The minor party’s 11 senators and lone MP met in Melbourne on Thursday afternoon to agree on its fifth parliamentary leader after Adam Bandt was unexpectedly ousted from Melbourne at the May election.
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