Minutes/General Meeting/2014-05-20

=General IRC Meeting (#ppau)=

Start: 19:59 20/05/2014 AEST

Finish: 21:06 20/05/2014 AEST

Agenda

 * Announcements
 * Upcoming Congress
 * Accepting Constitutional Amendments until 19 June --- email secretary@pirateparty.org.au
 * Policy proposals open now, please refer to PDC first so policies can be made neat --- policydev@pirateparty.org.au
 * Nominations open until Congress --- add here http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2014/Nominations
 * PDC
 * State & Territory reports
 * ACT (Glen)
 * NSW (Sunny)
 * Qld (Michael)
 * SA (Bryn)
 * Tas (Tim)
 * Vic (Ben)
 * WA (Fletcher)
 * Any other business

Attendance
+ others
 * Melanie Thomas (Chair)
 * Simon Frew (NC)
 * Daniel Judge (NC)
 * Mark Gibbons (NC)
 * David Campbell (NC)
 * Brendan Molloy (NC)
 * Michael Keating (Qld)
 * Tim Serong (Tas)

Apologies

 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
 * Glen Takkenberg

General Announcements

 * Change.org petition
 * currently sitting at just over 5000 signatures - but we still need to get to 10K
 * so please try and share as much as possible across social networks etc so we can have Ludlam present a nice chunky petition in parliament
 * Budget stalled things a bit, need to reinvigorate
 * naturally once the relevant legislation is announced, the petition will light up

Congress

 * General reminder: http://pirateparty.org.au/2014/05/03/pirate-congress-2014/
 * all coming along nicely
 * Dates are official, weekend of 19th July, and at the Irish Club, Brisbane
 * ensure you raise your hand for positions and nominate, new blood is good and some vacancies are expected
 * Important: Accepting Constitutional Amendments until 19 June --- email secretary@pirateparty.org.au
 * some already submitted: http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2014/Constitutional_Amendments
 * Policy proposals open now, please refer to PDC first so policies can be made neat --- policydev@pirateparty.org.au
 * Nominations open until Congress --- add here http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2014/Nominations

QLD

 * those in the QLD Branch formation committee got an email last week with some general information
 * Keating plans to tee up some time with those people to talk further about general things, which he'll will try and do in the next week or so
 * There is a QLD meeting night for next Thursday at O'Malley's in the CBD
 * Note: Keating will be out of the country for the following meeting
 * also QCLN have stuff planned too: a public Save the CMC meeting is next on the agenda the last meeting at City Hall got about 150 ppl

NSW

 * NSW (Sydney) meeting in 2 weekends time
 * Newcastle meetings have fizzled, but SamKearns is back in Newcastle so may be some movement there, David and Sam planning a mini satellite congress (get together on congress day for those not traveling to QLD)

Vic

 * Nothing to report

Tas

 * Meeting held, number of apologies meaning small turnout
 * minutes: http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/tas-20140508
 * Tim is away for a bit next month, so will have a deputy host a monthly meeting to try to keep regular activity.
 * Rundll got to March in Hobart, turn out of about 500 people, met one other pp member there and handed out a ton of flyers
 * Tim and Hanrahan talking about trying to get some PPAU-branded talks going provided we can find speakers thinking: policy (not politics, not philosophy), but some way we can help to bring transparency in some concrete way
 * wait ti back after next month before persuing further.

SA

 * A meeting was held at the Worldsend on 2014-05-14 bus over the federal budget).
 * Maybe picked a bad day/time or maybe it was the budget... will try again next week!
 * would like to (with the NC) start a SA PR / Recruitment campaign sometime in the next 2 years

WA

 * Meetup next week at the Moon and Sixpence
 * Fletcher has an interview with WTV Perth tomorrow morning.
 * Fletcher mentioned a while ago about reaching out to the VA community in WA and he's had a few meetings with various community leaders. Once there's something more concrete he'll report back.