Minutes/Election Committee Meeting/2013-05-21

Agenda

 * 1) Election Mailout 1 (Frew)
 * 2) Campaigns Reportback (Thomas)
 * 3) Political developments and response (Frew)
 * 4) Censorship by ASIC and other departments, government implementing opaque censorship regime
 * 5) TPP and LNP support for Investor-State Tribunals, assault on sovereignty
 * 6) Media (Mozart)
 * 7) Fundraising (Frew)

Attendance

 * Simon Frew
 * Brendan Molloy
 * Mozart Palmer
 * Glen Takkenberg
 * Thomas Randle
 * David Campbell
 * Melanie Thomas
 * Liam Pomfret
 * Ben Mc Guinness
 * Rodney Serkowski
 * Geoff Hammett
 * Joe Miles

Election Mailout 1

 * 9 responses so far.
 * A few designers, more letterbox stuffers, election day leafletters.
 * Thomas Randle to contact designers for campaigns contributions
 * State co-ordinators to look after each states contacts for propaganda distribution.
 * Ben McGuinness to look into the rules for distribution of electoral rolls.
 * Another mailout next month

Political developments and response

 * Discussion of Using section 313 of Communications Act as a backdoor to censor Internet.
 * Brendan has submitted a FOI and had the application refused
 * Mozart to start a PR and Brendan to add quotes
 * Discussion about ways to raise the 313 issue more broadly, 'Team 313' possibly forming a coalition of Parties opposed to the use of 313 provisions to censor websites.
 * Discussion about campaigning on various issues and candidates trying to get media through various means, including contributing pieces to news outlets.
 * The Coalition supporting Investor State Dispute Rsolution Tribunals a concerning development for TPPA negotiations
 * PR to be done by Frew and Melanie

Campaigns Reportback

 * Need to get fundraising into a form we can launch on social media, added volunteer for to Website

Media

 * Much of the discussion covered in previous agenda items.
 * Need candidates to contact local media sites, like free papers, local ABC radio, local commercial radio stations
 * Reiteration of request for candidates to try and get published in ABC Unleashed etc

Fundraising

 * Having a better than usual month in terms of income
 * Got a $200 donation because a Journalist spelled Molloy wrong.
 * Discussion of a reward for donation plan, generally opposed after Swag debacle.
 * Idea floated of a goals based approach listing what each goal will enable us to buy.
 * Payment gateway almost complete, making Credit Card donations easier to process.
 * Discussion of merchandise, using a TShirt printing company to distribute PPAU TShirts