Larissa Waters will become the first senator booted over dual citizenship issues to return to the Senate.
The Queensland parliament on Thursday will formally confirm Senator Waters' filling of the casual vacancy, ahead of her being sworn into the Senate in Canberra on Monday.
She will take the seat vacated by Andrew Bartlett, who decided to run for the lower house seat of Brisbane at the next election.
Senator Waters, a former co-deputy leader of the Greens, was first elected in 2010 and won a second term in 2016.
However she resigned in July last year after it was discovered she also held Canadian citizenship, having been born in Winnipeg.
This put her in breach of section 44 of the constitution.
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