Senator Larissa Waters won't rule out leadership tilt as Greens claim RyanBy state political reporter Jack McKayTopic:Australian Federal Elections1h ago1 hours agoTue 13 May 2025 at 1:14amGreens Senator Elizabeth Watson-Brown (right) pictured with Senator Larissa Waters, has claimed Ryan. (AAP: Jono Searle)abc.net.au/news/greens-mp-elizabeth-watson-brown-larissa-waters-federal-election/105285330Link copiedShareShare articleQueensland Senator Larissa Waters won't rule out a tilt at the Greens leadership, as the party declares victory in the inner-Brisbane seat of Ryan.Elizabeth Watson-Brown will now be the sole Greens MP in the House of Representatives after the party failed to reclaim any of its other lower house seats.Asked about whether she would run to become Greens leader after Adam Bandt lost his seat of Melbourne, Senator Waters wouldn't discount it. "We've got a process to go through and I won't be making any comments about that," she said."I'm afraid you will just have to wait until Thursday."Elizabeth Watson-Brown with Max Chandler-Mather and Stephen Bates, who both lost their inner-Brisbane seats. (ABC News: Chris Gillette)Ms Waters said the party would consider whether there were any lessons to learn or if any changes should be made after the party failed to pick up any seats, and lost three. "What we saw were some very close results," she said."It's very hard for a smaller party like the Greens to keep our seats when we are up against the combined might of Labor and Liberal — both wanting to see us kicked out."We don't take those big corporate dollars. We don't have those big coffers that the other parties have because we're not for sale to those vested interests."Lonely on the floorMs Watson-Brown, who first won Ryan in 2022, will retain the electorate with a two-party preferred swing towards her, despite a drop in her primary vote.She said she was going to "desperately miss" her former colleagues in the House of Representatives Adam Bandt, Max Chandler-Mather, and Stephen Bates."It might be a little bit lonely on the floor," Ms Watson-Brown said."That is a pretty difficult place. You can be feeling a bit lonely there when you're being screamed at by 149 other people."There's nobody else now to take that buffer. But I've got to remind people the Greens party room is our strength."The Ryan MP is now the only member of the Greens in the House of Representatives. (AAP: Jono Searle)Ms Watson-Brown promised to be a "strong, independent" voice for the people of Ryan in parliament and said it was a huge honour to be their MP.Before 2022, the seat was largely considered a blue-ribbon electorate, which had been mostly held by the Liberals since its inception in 1949.'A new chapter'Ms Waters said the Greens would still have a lot of influence in the Senate. "Our pledge to the public is that we will work to help people, to improve people's daily lives, and to protect the planet and nature that we all rely upon," she said."It's a new chapter here to be written for us."Posted 1h ago1 hours agoTue 13 May 2025 at 1:14am, updated 1h ago1 hours agoTue 13 May 2025 at 1:32amShare optionsCopy linkFacebookX (formerly Twitter)Top StoriesSussan Ley is the new leader of the Liberal Party, Ted O'Brien is deputy LIVEPhoto shows Susan Ley talks while standing behind a lectern. 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