Greens leader Senator Larissa Waters has quit the party leadership in a surprise move due to ill health. Waters, who has been leader since former leader Adam Bandt was defeated at the 2025 election, is managing a “pre-existing kidney disease” that has “declined significantly” in recent months.
绿党领袖拉丽莎·沃特斯参议员因健康原因出人意料地辞去了党魁职务。自前领袖亚当·班特在2025年大选中落败后，沃特斯一直担任领袖，但她在近几个月里，其“原有的肾病”状况“显著恶化”。
A Monday night statement said the prognosis for her recovery was “positive”, but she had decided the demands of the leadership, including extra travel, were incompatible with prioritising her health.
周一晚间的声明称，她康复的“预后”良好，但她决定，领导职务的要求（包括额外的差旅）与她优先考虑健康的计划“不相容”。
The Greens will determine “the next steps for the leadership this week”, the statement said. Waters was elected unopposed as leader in 2025.
声明称，绿党将在本周确定“领导层接下来的步骤”。沃特斯在2025年无对手当选为领袖。
Waters will take medical leave, but plans to return to parliament “as soon as she can”, it said.
声明称，沃特斯将休病假，但计划“尽快”重返议会。
Waters said she was “really sad that illness means my time as leader has been cut short”. But our movement needs a leader in good health to lead us to success at the next election.
沃特斯表示，她“非常难过，疾病意味着我的领袖任期被缩短了”。但我们的运动需要一个健康的领袖，带领我们在下次大选中取得成功。
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.
将接力棒交给下一任党魁，将使新领袖处于最佳位置，带领绿党参加下次大选，为人民而战，而不是为操控工党、自由党和一国党的企业利益而战。
Our fight is too important, and it needs more time and energy than I am able to give while I focus on my recovery.
我们的斗争至关重要，它需要比我目前专注于康复时所能投入的更多的时间和精力。
The 2028 federal election looms as a complicated one in the Senate, with the surge in support for One Nation adding new pressures on both major parties and smaller players.
2028年联邦大选在参议院的前景显得错综复杂，对一国党支持率的激增给两大主要政党及小党派都带来了新的压力。
The statement said Waters had used the party’s balance of power in the Senate to deliver “sufficient outcomes”, including environmental law reform (where the Greens secured changes to the government’s legislation) and gun reform.
声明称，沃特斯利用绿党在参议院的“权力平衡”地位，实现了“充分的结果”，包括环境法改革（绿党确保了政府立法的修改）和枪支管制改革。
Waters won a Queensland seat at the 2010 election. In 2017-18, she was caught up in the parliamentary eligibility crisis because she had been born in Canada, making her a dual citizen and thus ineligible for a seat in the federal parliament. The crisis ensnared multiple parliamentarians.
沃特斯在2010年大选中赢得了昆士兰州的一个席位。在2017-18年，她因出生于加拿大而成为双重国籍者，从而不符合联邦议会议员的资格，因此卷入了议会资格危机。这场危机使多名议员陷入困境。
The article frames Waters’ departure through the lens of individual health, but we must ask: who is centred in this narrative? By highlighting her 'pre-existing kidney disease' and the 'demands of the leadership,' the piece implicitly validates the idea that political labour is a burden to be managed rather than a collective responsibility. The statement’s call to 'fight for people, not the corporate interests' is powerful, yet the framing of her exit as a 'surprise move' obscures the structural exhaustion placed on marginalized leaders. We need to centre the harm done by a system that treats care as incompatible with power.
文章将沃特斯的离职框定为个人健康问题，但我们必须追问：谁在这个叙事中被置于中心？通过强调她“原有的肾脏疾病”和“领导职位的要求”，文章隐含地验证了政治劳动是一种需要被管理的负担，而非集体责任。声明中“为人民而战，而非为控制工党、自由党和一国党的企业利益而战”的呼吁很有力，但将她的退出描述为“意外之举”掩盖了置于边缘化领导者身上的结构性疲惫。我们需要将系统性对关怀的排斥置于权力核心，这种排斥将照顾视为与权力不相容。