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

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 candidates explain how this decision, and the way in which it was made, speaks to bigger structural problems in how our electoral politics treats women.

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