Pirate Emergency Congress 2021/Nominations

= Adding a Nomination =

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= Nominations =

Queensland
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Brandon Selic
I have been a community lawyer for the majority of my career and currently work as a criminal defence lawyer exclusively for Indigenous Australians. I am therefore experienced in helping the disenfranchised and vulnerable with their issues and advocating for them, which I believe would be useful in representing the people of Queensland in the senate. I've also been involved in party politics since the age of 18 and stood in the 2016 & 2019 Federal Elections for the Pirate Party.| Like many others, I am angry with the current state of Australian politics, and wish to instigate change in how our politicians behave in their professional capacity and how they represent their constituents. Australians deserve a better class of politicians, and we're going to give it to them.| I have been a member of the Pirate Party Australia since its creation, acting as its first Legal Officer. I later served as Queensland Coordinator, and have contributed to policy development and previous election campaigns.

To advance the Pirate Party, I would campaign as best I can for the Federal Election, regardless of receiving the party’s nomination or not. I would attempt to highlight our policies to the electorate and even if we are not successful in campaigning, try to ensure that the issues we are advocating for are talked about and at least in the forefront of voters’ minds.

Further, I would advocate an aggressive recruitment drive with the end goal being to register the Queensland branch as a political party to contest seats at the next Queensland State Election. I would also hope to diversify our membership base.

Finally, I would seek to make formal alliances with other political parties, civil liberties and community groups that share our core values and that we can work with cordially. To implement any change in Australia, we are not going to be able to work alone.| I agree with the Pirate Party Platform and its ideals. I was previously a member of the Australian Democrats.| }}
 * email: brandon.selic@pirateparty.org.au

South Australia
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David Kennedy
I am a founding member who has promoted the party and assisted with several of our election campaign efforts in the past while living in Brisbane before moving to Adelaide, and a councillor on our National Council over recent years.| To assist our ongoing political influence, I am willing to nominate as a potential candidate for Senate elections to help the cause of both Pirates and cooperating parties with the Fusion initiative. | I'm a full-stack .NET developer, primarily working on corporate enterprise systems. For the past 6 years I've been contracting to Telstra as an NBN Automation Consultant. If elected to the Australian Federal senate I will seek to faithfully reflect the consensus of our members and uphold our core values. I hold concerns with the increasing threats to our freedom of expression, and control of widely accessible information online being scripted or supressed by a handful of tech and media companies along with their wealthy global partners.| I support our current party policy and value the democratic processes which continue to expand our platform. Pirate Party Australia is the only political party I've held formal membership in.| }}
 * https://www.linkedin.com/in/dotnetdavidkennedy