Minutes/General Meeting/2014-01-14

Agenda
Start: 20:03:46 Finish: 20:40:37
 * TPP Protests (Frew)
 * TIA Act Review (Mozart)
 * National Council constitutional amendment (Mozart)
 * Policy Development Report (Mozart)
 * State & Territory reports
 * ACT (Glen)
 * NSW (Sunny)
 * Qld (Mel)
 * SA (Bryn)
 * Tas (Thomas)
 * Vic (Ben)
 * WA (Fletcher)
 * Any other business

Attendance

 * Simon Frew (Chair)
 * Fletcher Boyd (WA Coord)
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer (NC/PDO)
 * Brendan Molloy (NC)
 * Bryn Busai (SA Coord)
 * Glen Takkenberg (NC/ACT Coord)

TPP Protests

 * There is a round of Trans-Pacific Partnership protests coming up in February.
 * Feb 7 was called as an international day of action by some Occupy-related activists.
 * Anonymous has also gotten involved, and is claiming ownership.
 * It has been quite aggressive, saying no Unions, NGOs or Greens are allowed to speak.
 * This is being ignored in Melbourne and possible Brisbane.
 * Sydney's organising has stagnated; it has fallen on Frew to organise.
 * There will be an organisational meeting this Saturday at 1:00 pm at the Paragon Hotel in Sydney.
 * The Sydney protest will likely be held separate from Anonymous.
 * Pirate Party works well with the Greens, and the Greens do bring people along to protests.
 * We need both the ALP and Greens on side to defeat the TPP
 * Working with as broad a coalition as possible is the best option
 * Should be approached on a city-by-city basis.
 * See what is happening; help where possible; and avoid protests where the organisers aren't going to work in broad coalitions.
 * We should avoid being lumped in with the fringe-dwellers.
 * We can help organise additional protests away from Anonymous-organised ones if need be.

TIA Act Review

 * A reminder that the submission for the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act is due in about a month, and if people would like to help there is a meeting in #ppau-tiarev next Tuesday at 8:30 pm (Sydney time).
 * Email Frew if more details are needed, or ask questions in #ppau-tiarev.

National Council constitutional amendment

 * A reminder to everyone that tomorrow night the National Council will vote to amend the Constitution.
 * Raising this at the General Meeting for the purposes of transparency.
 * Everyone should've got an announcement.
 * It's to include a clause stating we're a non-profit organisation so we get benefits.
 * The text is in the announcement, and will be presented at the NC meeting tomorrow night

PDC Report

 * The first proper Policy Development Committee (PDC) meeting for a while happened last week.
 * There have been a couple of resignations due to people with other commitments needing to leave.
 * Received three new applications, and these will be voted on by the NC tomorrow night.
 * Anyone else who wants to join can email policydev@pirateparty.org.au to apply.
 * Applications get voted on by the NC every two weeks.
 * There were four policy direction proposals put forward at the meeting last week.
 * Universal education, healthcare and childcare policies.
 * Revenge pornography policy.
 * Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians policy.
 * Develop a Tort of Privacy policy.
 * Forming working groups for each of these.
 * All members are permitted to be on these working groups.
 * If you'd like to put your name down, please do so here: https://docs.google.com/a/pirateparty.org.au/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiFzeQ19ELxIdGRHbU9jam9kYWdzR2F1QmpuRGFQSWc&usp=drive_web#gid=0
 * The next PDC meeting will be on Wednesday next week, at 8:30 pm (Sydney time) in #ppau-pdc

ACT

 * There is a local freedom of information review due by the end of January.
 * Could put in a simple submission pushing for more transparency.
 * A couple of pages can be of use.

NSW

 * Absent

Qld

 * Absent

SA

 * Last meeting on 21 Dec 2013 was small.
 * Attendees liked the draft state constitution.

Tas

 * Absent

WA

 * Had a face-to-face meeting to put names to faces.
 * WA likes the draft constitution for their branch.
 * Main thing WA is focusing on is developing a state-specific campaign for 2014.
 * Talk of social events to help network the community in Perth that may be interested in PPAU's policies.