Larissa Waters

Born

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Occupation

Environmental lawyer and Lawyer

Jurisdiction

QLD - State

A member of the Greens Party, Larissa Waters was elected to the Senate of the Australian Parliament representing the state of Queensland at the federal election, which was held on 21 August 2010. She took her seat in the Senate on 1 July 2011.

Sources used to compile this entry: Bonyhady, Tim and Macintosh, Andrew (eds), Mills, mines and other contorversies: the environmental assessment of major projects., The Federation Press, Annandale, NSW, 2010, 304 pp.

Prepared by Rosemary Francis

Created: 21 September 2010, Last modified: 2 September 2016

This exhibition is an outcome from 'The Trailblazing Women and the Law' project, a collaboration between the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne.

This research was generously supported by the Australian Research Council Linkage Projects funding scheme (project number LP120200367), and project partners: Australian Women Lawyers, Family Court of Australia, Federal Court of Australia, National Foundation for Australian Women and the National Library of Australia.

Data in this exhibition is up-to-date to 30 June 2016.
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Published by the Australian Women's Archives Project 2016
ISBN 978-0-7340-5406-7
http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers/biogs/AWE4582b.htm