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A Mandate is defined as an order or a command. Politicians claim mandates from the people. Labor claimed a Mandate to introduce the Australia Card. Howard claimed a Mandate to introduce the GST. Both were false claims as the only way in which the parliament can get a Mandate from the people is for the people to vote in a referendum, where they vote either yes or no to a question asked of them, or where the people have collected, at their own initiative, the required signatures of 50% plus of qualified electors to command their parliament to do a certain thing (Citizen Initiated Mandate) (C.I.M.). We do not have to ask the politicians we simply get the signatures and present our employees with their orders.

Petitions are, by their very nature, requests, and cannot order or command the parliament to do anything. The politicians know this and simply ignore them.

No Mandate can be given at an election. A election ballot paper does not have any instruction, signature, address, name, date or electorate on it. It only has names and ticks, crosses or numbers. This can never be construed as an order or command. If it were, those claiming a Mandate from the people would not be able to be selective and would have to carry out every promise made during an election campaign.

If it were possible to get a Mandate from an election, it certainly could not be claimed by anyone getting less than 50% of the primary votes.

In the last federal election the Coalition only achieved 40% of the primary vote. That tells us that there was not a majority of people who wanted the GST. Therefore there could be no Mandate (order, command).

See www.reclaimaustralia.net for a poll on the GST which is running at 97% against.

Politicians falsely claim Mandates, so, let us give them a real one.

See www.reclaimaustralia.net for more information.

No parliament would dare ignore the written, freely expressed, will of the people.

If the Australian people are too lazy or too ignorant to express their will, we will continue to get from our employees exactly what we have always got.