Minutes/General Meeting/2012-10-09

=General IRC Meeting (#ppau)=

Start: 20:00 09/10/12

Finish: 21:09 09/10/12

Attendance: ~58+

Agenda

 * Registration update (Mozart)
 * David Haidon — is running without endorsement as an independent pirate in his local elections, hopefully he is in attendance tonight.
 * Radio talk back and news papers
 * FOI request (Roderick)
 * ACT election (Mozart)
 * Policy development stuff & copyrev
 * Questions/comments?

Registration update

 * As of the time of the meeting, 158 people have confirmed, and 220 people have updated their membership.
 * Second mailout will occur shortly.
 * Registration Work Group is verifying updates to check they match AEC records, contacting those that don't.
 * New signups have slowed down.
 * 2-3 per day after launch of the online signup form.
 * Dropped to several per week.
 * More media attention and members expected post registration, based upon the experience of other parties.

David Haidon is running as an unendorsed independent pirate candidate in LGA elections

 * http://haidon4myrnong.wordpress.com/
 * Myrnong Ward, Moonee Valley Council Elections.
 * Running under Pirate Party principals, and stating that he is a member of PPAU.
 * LGA elections in Victoria require all candidates to be independent; they can be endorsed by parties.
 * Discussion over the legitimacy endorsements of candidates as PPAU is not federally registered yet.
 * Election is at the end of this month.
 * NC is still deliberating over the issue as notification of his intent to run for elections was last minute.

Radio talk back and news papers

 * David Campbell (President) has been contacting radio stations and newspapers to drum up publicity.

ACT Elections update

 * The 3 candidates are doing well.
 * Attempts by media to sabotage PPAU-ACT have been unsuccessful.

National Security Inquiry legislation draft Freedom of Information update

 * Attorney General's Department has refused PPAU's FoI request on the grounds:
 * It is in draft form.
 * It hasn't finished the processes of review.
 * To release the material would prejudice current negotiations and decision making processes.
 * All three reasons provided are invalid.
 * We will be appealing the refusal immediately to the OAIC (Office of the Australian Information Commissioner) and asking for any documentation relating to the draft.


 * PPAU supplemental submission to the NatSecInquiry has yet to be accepted, yet ASIO and Nicola Roxon were able to make late supplemental submissions.

Policy development stuff & copyrev

 * Details in today's newsletter
 * Anyone wanting to help with policy development: email enquiries@pirateparty.org.au
 * Also interested parties for National Security Inquiry can join #natsecinquiry on irc and Copyright Review at #copyrev