A recent media release that two people propose to stand as job-sharing candidates for the electorate of Higgins at the next Australian federal election has raised the question of whether this is legally or constitutionally possible. This video addresses the various legal and constitutional impediments to such a proposal. Neither the Constitution nor the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 was drafted to accommodate such an arrangement, so legal and constitutional reform would be necessary to support such a change.
UPDATE: In the proposed federal electorate redistribution, the electorate of Higgins is proposed to be deleted. So it looks like we will not see the outcome of any litigation about the prospective job-sharing candidates.
