Double or nothing: Australia’s first ‘job-sharing’ political candidates raise constitutional questions

Lucy Bradlow (left) and Bronwen Bock say job-sharing, though never before attempted in Australian politics, ‘has been done in the private sector for decades’. Photograph: Simon James Photography/Supplied

Melbourne women Lucy Bradlow and Bronwen Bock have announced a plan to run for federal parliament as independent “job-sharing candidates”.

Bradlow, a political communications expert, and Bock, an investment banker, say they will attempt to nominate jointly – as a single candidate on the ballot paper – for the Melbourne seat of Higgins. If elected, they would split official duties, travel to Canberra on alternate weeks and make joint decisions about key issues.