Just by the way...

Does the Australian electorate have any constitutional right to expect its elected leaders to do what it wants them to do?

Or do we elect representatives in the expectation that they will do what's best for us, be it what we want, or what we obviously don't want?

I ask because the system of electing national governments by means of voting for local members (or parties at the local level) seems to infer a little of both or not much of either.

John