Minutes/International Relations Team/2021-02-11

International Relations Committee Meeting

Thursday 11/02/21

Start: 6:15pm Sydney time (AEDT)

Attendees

 * Fred Gerner
 * Jay Stephens
 * Leanne Geraghty (Lee)
 * Miles Whiticker
 * Kevin Huang
 * John August
 * Josh (T.A.E.)
 * Alex Jago [minutes]

Agenda

 * Introductions (everyone) (not minuted in detail)


 * international relations valuable for
 * resource sharing with other Pirates
 * contrasting with Australian things


 * Committee onboarding (Miles)
 * Terms of reference
 * Responsibilities
 * Recent projects


 * PPI report (Gabe)


 * Committee priorities (Miles)
 * Everyone decide portfolio or focus area


 * Final onboarding steps (eg email) (Miles/Alex)


 * General business

Minutes

 * "There's no borders on the Internet" -- Lee


 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Foreign_and_International_Relations_Team/Terms_of_Reference

Key Responsibilities

 * Liasion with other Pirate Parties
 * Liasion with other international groups sharing some or many of our principles
 * Organising international events
 * Representing PPAU at events run by international Pirates
 * question from Jay: "what level of detail would we need to be across policy"
 * Alex: "across it enough to know what and where to check specifics quickly"
 * Miles adds: "but being across nuance can be very valuable -- e.g. prior to the recent Euro Pirates event, we agreed not to talk about refuguees, as our platforms diverge a bit there due to different contexts in EU and AU"
 * Research to propogate recent international thought into PPAU discourse

Recent projects

 * Euro Pirates livestream event took some time to set up, but went pretty well.
 * "Essentially an interview format; PPAU legitimisation exercise by appeal to authority of Pirate MEPs"
 * this raises a point: events need review afterwards to determine usefulness and what to do better


 * Presentation to PP Turkey
 * talked about campaigning, tools, growth strategy
 * PPAU giving back to the international movement


 * Assange event in December was also of international interest

Focus areas

 * Jay would like to take southern PPEU (as he is Italian/French speaking) and MENA
 * Fred is Swedish, so potential there
 * John: "IR is about reaching out, I'm here for AU foreign policy. I'm more interested in what the group is up to"
 * Alex and Miles see their roles as largely providing admin + party support
 * Kevin also more interested in policy analysis, but also more in relation to AU foreign policy. Prefer to be issue driven, rather than working on general relationships.
 * Lee: "I'm a simulator builder for Second Life -- looking at setting up a PPAU meeting place in that context... it's an inherently international platform. It's an environment used by many groups."

Action items

 * Emails for: Jay, Lee, Kevin