On April 20 this year, Browen Bock and Lucy Bradlow launched their job-sharing candidacy for the federal seat of Higgins in Victoria. Not long after, the AEC Redistribution Committee announced that Higgins was one of the seats they were recommending be abolished as part of their regular review of electoral boundaries. In this guest post,…

The Australian Electoral Commission has proposed abolishing the seat of Higgins in the next federal election. Regardless of the future direction of our campaign, we believe this decision didn’t sufficiently consider the social, as well as demographic, implications of removing the seat. Higgins is the only seat in the country to have a declared job…

Lucy Bradlow and Bronwen Bock want to be the first politicians able to take care of the kids as the scores of other MPs bicker in Canberra’s Parliament House.

Voters in the Melbourne seat of Higgins might have the opportunity to pick two federal MPs at the next election, amid an ambitious plan for a job-sharing ticket.

Mum of three Bronwen Bock had never considered entering politics until a longtime friend came to her with an interesting proposition. Would she like to run for parliament together as a single candidate?

Independent candidates for the federal seat of Higgins, Bronwyn Bock and Lucy Bradlow, have put forward the idea that they will run together at the next election, with the idea that, if elected, they will job-share the parliamentary role, a week on and a week off.

Community-backed Independents, Lucy Bradlow and Bronwen Bock have today launched their campaign for the seat of Higgins in the next federal election. In an Australia-first campaign, Lucy and Bronwen are running as job sharing candidates, to bring the best possible representation to Higgins and change how politics is done in Australia. “We believe the people…