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Two people want to share the job of MP for Higgins. Is it constitutional?

  • Written by Anne Twomey, Professor emerita, University of Sydney
Two people want to share the job of MP for Higgins. Is it constitutional?Image from Bradlow + Bock campaign

Can the job of being a federal member of parliament be shared by two or more persons? Two prospective candidates for the inner-Melbourne federal seat of Higgins, Lucy Bradlow and Bronwen Bock, have announced that they will run as job-sharing independent candidates. They say they will “work week-on, week...

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