Minutes/Election Committee Meeting/13-7-21

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