What the abolition of the seat of Higgins tells us about the way the political system treats women candidates

Are women being set up to fail?

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Jul 08, 2024

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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 two candida…

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A guest post by

Bronwen Bock

Bronwen is one half of the Bradlow + Bock for Higgins job sharing candidacy. She is a finance professional, governance expert and gender equality consultant. Bronwen most recently led M&A and VC investing for REA and prior to that was at Macquarie.

A guest post by

Lucy Bradlow

Lucy Bradlow is one half of the job sharing candidacy for the seat of Higgins. She is also a communications consultant and gender equality expert. She was previously the head of communications and campaigns for the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.