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New Greens senator elected in South Australia, as One Nation, Nick ... (ABC News)

South Australia will have two Greens senators for the first time since 2016, while Nick Xenophon and Rex Patrick almost certainly fail to get elected.

Mr Xenophon — a former colleague of Senator Patrick in the Nick Xenophon Team — said he was waiting to see how the below-the-line votes fell in the Senate. The ungrouped candidates, which included former senators Nick Xenophon, Stirling Griff and Bob Day, also received 3.3 per cent of the vote, while Senator Patrick received 2.1 per cent. One Nation has received the highest vote of any party after Labor, the Liberals and the Greens, but its lead candidate is not hopeful of becoming South Australia's sixth representative in the upper house.

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Legalise Cannabis Australia party sees record Queensland Senate ... (ABC News)

Much has been made of the throng of Greens elected in lower house Queensland seats after the weekend's federal election, but could another voting trend play ...

That's possibly helped too — to a lot of people from Queensland on medical cannabis," Mr Balderstone said. Because of cancer and because I just can't afford to nourish myself." Dr Tiernan said it was "a bit of a stretch" to assume this result was the beginning of a political wave for the party, but said it was important for any party to reach that magical 4 per cent. "I lost everything. She said without the medicinal cannabis she is "curled up in a ball in pain", and the pharmaceutical options are simply not viable, wearing off too quickly and inducing a "spiralling circle of pain and pharmaceuticals and vomiting". Pain relief and the cost of medicinal cannabis are a pillar of the Legalise Cannabis 2022 campaign.

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