In quite a lot of things we accept the will of the minority. Start with politicians salaries and work your way out from there. The ALP gets a minority of votes and gets propped up by the Greens - the Liberal Party gets a minority of votes and gets propped up by the Country Party. It goes on and on. However, the aim of governing for all should be to maximise the benefits to the majority without destroying the rights of the minority and not just pandering to the noisy.
If each policy being offered up was on the ballot paper with a tick box alongside it we MIGHT determine what the WILL of the majority was but we don't so we can't and all the crap about an electoral mandate is just crap. The little known policies were usually the result of the leader speaking out loud in the loo or suddenly waking up with a "captain's pick" and then being pushed as a "mandate" on a bemused and gutless party and gullible public usually well after the election. It is always worthwhile considering which, so called "far reaching and nationally important" policies actually make it as legislation. More recently, how did Abbot behave?
Alan Jones, Ray Hadley, Andrew Bolt et al may tell you that they speak for the worker, the family or farmers on Struggle Street, everyman but really they are just bully boys pushing some sort of barrow for some sectional minority interest which on the odd occasion might align with what the majority considers fair and reasonable, but not often.