First what is an Election?
Elections are not your Free Will; because (1). Voting is compulsory. (2). Electors mark their preference and vote more then once. and (3). Your Free Will (instructions) and Signature are not on the Ballot Paper. The Ballot Paper has not been initiated by the individual Living Soul. To get the Ballot Paper at an election you must be verified and marked off on the electoral roll.

The only Constitutional Member of Parliament and Senator is the Independent Candidate because;
That Candidate has at least 50 Living Souls (People) in that Electorate who each have their Name, Address and Signatures, on the Nomination Form to do their WILL. Nomination means; to appoint.
This is consistent with Sections 7 and 24 of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900.
Which states; All Candidates shall be directly chosen by the Living Souls (People) in each electorate.

When you vote at an election the applicable Governor, or in the case of Federal, the Governor General, that a certain person is sworn in to represent you in Parliament. This is why the Prime Minister claimed he had a mandate to introduce the GST. However he did not have a mandate to do so; the only mandate he had was to represent the people.
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What is a Mandate?
A judicial or legal command from superior, political authority supposed to be given by electors to Members of Parliament. Independent Candidate Nomination Form would be a Mandate.
Mandatory: Of;  conveying;  a command;  compulsory.
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What is a Will?
A WILL can be used in different ways, (1). Work one's WILL: To do exactly what one wants.
(2). Conjoin: To join together, to combine, to unite. (3). Conjoint, Joint, Will: a testamentary act by two persons jointly in the same Instrument.
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From Colin; So to answer that; requires a short lesson as well as a definition of the term. Firstly a mandate by definition is literally an instruction; so it follows that by definition, a people's mandate is an Instruction by the people and Command of the people. Do mandates work? The short answer is, yes they do.

Will a mandate work elsewhere? Again the short answer is yes. For this you only have to look at what happened in Werribee and Mildura with the toxic waste dumps. So why is a mandate working whereas rallies and petitions do not? For a start there is a huge difference between a petition or rally etc. and a mandate. For you to understand why requires the short lesson.

Under the requirements of the Australian Constitution you are required to not only elect your representative but also to inform that representative of your Will in any and all matters. Your representative is likewise required to obey your Will in any and all matters. Some of you may be asking the question now why don't the politicians therefore obey the people when they rally and present a petition? The reason that they don't, is because they do not have to. This may sound like a contradiction but they don't have to because, and this is the important bit, it is not your Will.

"Your Will" is yours alone. When you sign a petition or attend a rally all you are doing is saying that you have no free will in that you are agreeing with someone else and therefore you and he or she can be ignored. To be your Will it must be freely given. So how do you do that? It is so incredibly simple it is not funny; all that is necessary is that you indicate your Will individually in writing with only your signature alone on it. Dead simple is it not it?

Now this is where the "Mandate" comes in. A mandate is literally a collection of free will instructions. That is a group of people have all individually signed, for want of a better word, a single page petition, and forwarded each and every individually signed page as a collection of pages to the person or persons so being instructed. In some cases it may only be a few hundred pages in others it could be hundreds of thousands, but in all cases they cannot be ignored.

The art of a mandate however is for it to be written as precise and as short as possible in such a manner that it cannot be misinterpreted and that every person submitting their Will on the matter say exactly the same thing. Again the difference between a mandate and a petition is that each instruction is individually signed not group signatures.

Now the big question, how can this knowledge help you with your problems? Well let us look at the big picture for a big question. To start with we all have many concerns, and some if not all may be in common with others, but all are different. We could submit a multitude of mandates, but surely there is a simpler way. Again with a little lesson, there is.

Irrespective of whether you are a Monarchist, Republican, or simply don't care you should read and understand your Constitution as it has already told you, how to solve your problems especially those politically orientated. Arguably we in Australia have the best Constitution for the people ever written.
Why would we say that? Because it is true, our Constitution places the control of and the running of our country in our hands. The first thing you must understand is that despite what you may have been told or led to believe the Queen and or her representative, the Governor General, have legally and morally absolutely no control over sovereign Australians.

Her power is limited to one thing and one thing only; the power, provided it is physically possible to do so, to give the Australian people anything they want. Now comes the interesting part. How does she do this? Currently she does so through the Governor General on the advice of the Queen's Ministers of State for the Commonwealth because; they are the people who are supposed to convey the will of the people. Of course as we have not been conveying our will, either because we did not know how, or even that we had to, those same Queen's Ministers of State for the Commonwealth have been able to basically pass any laws they felt like, irrespective of the effects on the people.

Now it is simply a case of who can rectify this and thereby fix the problems concerning the Australian people. Well we just told you, the Queen or in her absence the Governor General.

Of course now you are going to say; but the Queen appoints the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister; but the position of Prime Minister is not mentioned in the Constitution, so the Governor General is only a puppet of the Government, and you are dead right. Again we have a contradiction, but if you read and understood what has been written previously you should now understand why the Queen appoints on the advice of the Prime Minister.

What if the Queen was to receive the individual will of a few hundred thousand sovereign Australians that they wanted a specific Governor General with specific instructions, known legally as letters of patent, to be appointed to represent their wishes. Now under her coronation oath and the provisions of the Australian Constitution she must appoint the person so named and that person must carry out the instructions so given.

Why is the Governor General so important? Again we turn back to the Constitution and we find that under Constitutional law the Governor General is the Representative of the Queen in that unless he or she signs any Acts passed by the Parliament, those Acts do not come into force.
But; while the Governor General is representing the politicians, any and all Acts will be passed as is the current situation, but once the Governor General again becomes the Representative of the Queen, he or she will be required to ensure that any Act that removes either the people rights or the peoples assets; will in fact be denied.

All of this is clearly explained in a booklet titled "Your Will Be Done" written by Arthur Chresby, research analyst in Constitutional Law and former Federal Member for Griffin. The contents of this booklet have never been challenged in the high court so are taken to be Constitutionally lawfully correct.  The main reason that it has not been challenged is probably due to the fact that if it were it would become public knowledge and the power of politicians, as they know it would cease to exist. In other words let sleeping dogs lay. WAKE UP AUSTRALIA.

So now what are YOU going to do about YOUR concerns? Sit back and continue to moan and groan or stand up and do something about it.

Finally, remember that if the person you nominate to do the job fails to do so that person can be replaced just as easily as he or she was put in there in the first place. In fact it is far easier to replace the Governor General than it is to replace your elected member.

The only question that now remains, is whom do we want as the Governor General? The only problem that remains is that for our individual wills to be effective we must all nominate the same person.
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From Matthew;
Why do you think getting people to serve individual mandates upon
representatives is a better idea and more effective?

Where is the record of it going to be?
How would you keep track of whose WILL is what?
How would you prove service?
Do you recommend people just post it in or to use registered post?
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Do you recommend the use of a public notary that is; person given the authority to certify documents.
Why do you trust that representatives will take notice of something that no one can verify or
keep a track of when they don't even take notice of something that is verifiable.
Why do you think the media will report something that is not verifiable and could ultimately affect
the power of people who own the media?
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Suggestions by Sam; the initiator of the People's Mandate:
The Member of Parliament shall fill in a Statutory Declaration to verify that he or she shall;
present the Mandate to and in the Parliament and make a public announcement and
or televise the presentation on the ABC and;
hold a public meeting that may be televised on all television stations in every
State and Territory in and of Australia.
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There shall be three copies of each individual Mandate that the People want and presented.
They are;
One copy to the original person.
One copy to the Electorate and the media.
One copy to the Member or Members of Parliament to be presented to the Parliament.
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There shall be one person in every Electorate given the authority as, Notary Public, to certify and
count and to record and keep track of the Mandates in every Electorate.
To distribute one copy to;  original person, Electorate and the media, and Member of Parliament.