I have voted local, state, and federal for over 60 years.
Every ballot paper has had names of individual candidates. Once elected, the member has one and one only job. One responsibility.
The responsibility to express, in parliament, the will of the majority in their electorate. This is democracy!
They are not to decide what the people should want, and then proceed to sell it to them. They must ask the people what policies we want.
Hell, they asked what the people wanted about homosexual marriage and about a voice to parliament and the executive government to be enshrined in Australia’s Constitution.
The will of the people was conveyed to the politicians in both cases. We can now do the same for every piece of legislation to go before parliament. We can decide the will of the majority in each electorate and apply the vote of/for the people in our government.
We have the technology. It can be done. The Swiss have had a form of it in their ‘cantons’ for decades.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
