Larissa Waters

Larissa Waters (born 1977) was the lead Senate candidate for the Greens in Queensland in the 2007 Australian federal election. She narrowly lost the final position up for grabs to the ALP's candidate Mark Furner.

Larissa has a background as a public interest environmental lawyer in Brisbane Queensland Australia.

She is the Environment and Justice System spokesperson for the Queensland Greens.

Waters ran against the former Premier, Peter Beattie for the Electoral district of Brisbane Central in the Queensland legislative election, 2006, obtaining 18.29 % of the primary vote and a swing to the Greens of 6%, the biggest swing of any of the 72 candidates the Green party ran in Queensland.

Ms Waters is also Queensland Greens North Brisbane branch Convenor, Conservation group advisor and proxy on Ministerial advisory committee on vegetation (from 2005) and management committee and seminar subcommittee of the Queensland Environmental Law Association (from 2004).

In addition she is a member and Queensland editor of journal National Environmental Law Review (from 2005); a member of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (from 2004) and guest environmental law lecturer at the University of Queensland (2004-2005).

Ms Waters spoke against the death penalty at the Australians Against Capital Punishment public forum against the death sentences imposed on the Bali Nine on 7 June 2007 in Brisbane. Other speakers included Senators Barnaby Joyce, Joe Ludwig and Andrew Bartlett.

On 8 August 2007, Larissa Waters spoke at a public gathering outside the hearing in the Federal Court, Brisbane, in support of the reinstating of Dr Mohamed Haneef's visa.

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