Minutes/Policy Development Committee Meeting/2014-04-02

Agenda

 * Republic issue (Mozart)
 * Serious Invasions of Privacy WG (Mozart)
 * Senate Elections WG (Mozart/Brendan)

Attendance

 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer (Chair)
 * Laura Killian
 * Mark Gibbons
 * David Crafti
 * Brendan Molloy
 * Ben McGinnes

Apologies

 * Bill McLean
 * Daniel Judge
 * Andrew Downing

Republic issue

 * Constitutional Reform wG has hit a deadlock on whether to develop a stance on republicanism.
 * Brendan and Mozart were in favour, Mark and Laura weren't convinced it was worth bothering.
 * Ben and David both in favour.
 * Ben, David, Brendan, Mozart all in favour.
 * Republicanism to be included.

Serious Invasions of Privacy WG

 * We did a submission on this not long ago, on the issues paper.
 * The discussion paper has been released now, so we need to submit again on that.
 * Frew is happy to chair the WG — no objections to this
 * http://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/serious-invasions-privacy-dp-80
 * Due 12 May — just over a month.
 * Australia's law reform process is backwards.
 * The ALRC is given a very short amount of time to research and report, but it takes forever for recommendations to be implemented.

Senate Elections WG

 * Andrew cannot chair this anymore.
 * Brendan will chair it instead.
 * WG renamed to Election Inquiry WG.

General business

 * http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_Development_Committee/Handy_links — include useful links, be sure to label correctly so info can be found.
 * WG chairs should email the committee when a meeting is taking place, and email IT to get an item in the calendar.
 * Universal Education WG will start up soon.

Motions

 * None needed.