00:00Well, she says she's really humbled to have been elected unopposed or by consensus.
00:08The Greens have a slightly different way of picking a new leader and so it was sort of
00:12agreed by the parliamentary party who met in Melbourne this afternoon that Larissa Waters
00:17was the best person to take on that job.
00:20The deputy role was opposed, so there was a vote there.
00:23It's gone to Maureen Faruqi, but it was contested also by Senator Dorinda Cox.
00:29So nine votes to Maureen Faruqi, three votes to Senator Cox.
00:34Larissa Waters is the fifth leader of the Greens.
00:37She's the first Queenslander to do the role and she spoke earlier about some of her priorities.
00:44She talked about climate and nature, particularly on top of her list of things to address in
00:51this term of parliament.
00:52But she also said that the Greens wouldn't shy away from some of the issues that she has,
00:57that the party has previously talked a lot about.
00:59Also issues of housing and issues of their stance on the war in the Middle East.
01:04She also talked about the fact that Labor will need to work with the Greens in the Senate,
01:09given that the Greens have the sole majority there, sorry, the sole balance of power there,
01:16and that she would need to work with Labor to get those bills through.
01:20There's a chance now for real reform that helps people and that's what the Greens want to
01:25encourage and work with the Labor government to do.
01:28They can't blame anyone else now because we're saying here, we will give you the numbers in
01:33the Senate to pass good reforms that helps people and helps the planet.
01:36Okay?
01:37People elected us to get shit done and that's what we intend to do in the service of people
01:42and the planet.
01:43And Isabel, yeah, how does it look like, Larissa, she's using pretty blunt language there,
01:51how does it look like she's going to manage that relationship with the government?
01:54Yeah, she said she's a very plain speaking person.
01:57So that was an example of that.
01:58Queenslander.
01:59Exactly.
02:00We can't help ourselves.
02:01Look, she talked about being firm and constructive with Labor.
02:06So I guess an interesting term there, the Greens were criticised in the previous parliament
02:11for blocking some legislation that Labor put forward, for example, on housing, working
02:16with the coalition instead to knock back legislation which the Greens said wasn't good enough.
02:22Whether or not that relationship between Larissa Waters and Anthony Albanese is any different
02:27from the one that he had with Adam Bant remains to be seen.
02:31I do know that there are a few Labor people who view Larissa Waters as a pretty reasonable
02:37leader.
02:38So it will be interesting to see how they manage that relationship given the Greens do have
02:43so much power in the Senate going forward.
02:46What was at the source of that tension in the relationship between the Prime Minister and
02:51Adam Bant?
02:54Labor and the Greens have a chequered history.
02:56Labor doesn't want to be associated with the Greens in many ways.
03:02It wants to hold the power and put forward legislation on its own right.
03:07It doesn't like the fact that it has to sometimes rely on the Greens to get legislation passed
03:13and make concessions to the Greens.
03:16On the other hand, the Greens need or I guess more aligned with Labor obviously on the progressive
03:22side of politics than they are with the coalition.
03:24But because in the last term of parliament, the Greens would often vote with the coalition
03:29to block pieces of legislation, that infuriated Labor.
03:35And so that relationship has been sort of quite tense.
03:38Because I've started to think it's the role of the Greens are the role of the Greens are, who will
03:43probably see.
03:43So what is the term of the Greens?
03:44They're the role of the Greens are.
03:44That's the root of the Greens.
03:45I don't know.
03:46But in this term of the Greens are not necessarily supposed to be a whole whatsoever.
03:47So I think they're not about this idea of the Greens.
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