Minutes/National Council/2013-09-03

Note, Pre-election joint meeting: National Council and Election Committee

Agenda

 * Volunteer database - who how what
 * Final days
 * Political activites
 * Logistics
 * Volunteers coordination
 * Qld
 * NSW
 * Vic
 * Tas
 * Double Dissolution possibility what to do?
 * Last minute PRs?

Start time: 20:07 3/9/13 AEST

Finish time: 21:35 3/9/13 AEST

Attendance

 * Joe Miles
 * Tom Storey
 * Brendan Molloy
 * Mozart Oblrycht-Palmer
 * Daniel Judge
 * Liam Pomfret
 * Glen Takkenberg
 * Melanie Thomas
 * Simon Frew
 * Thomas Randle
 * David Campbell
 * Mark Gibbons

Volunteer database - who how what

 * Mel has passed on the latest details to Sunny in NSW and Ben in Vic.
 * will also pass on NSW details to Brendan
 * Greens co-ord in WA asking Pirates to help them

Final days

 * Final days before election
 * Yay

Political activities

 * Frew has no more media engagements at the moment
 * David has a fairfax news paper article looming and general electioneering and handing out shit at malls
 * Mel has B105 radio tomorrow (like Triple M)
 * DanielJ possible contact from WaveFM maybe?
 * SBS2 claims will be running Brendans interview this week (may get bumped due to wikileaks coverage)
 * MX ad happens tomorrow
 * 1/4 page tabloid ad
 * They needed to add the word "Advertisement" to it (10pt at top)
 * https://www.dropbox.com/s/7yq2dh8jzuuy8q0/draft23_MX_Ad.png

Getawarrant site

 * http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/getawarranttake2
 * improve intro, check wording etc
 * Brendan will put site up tomorrow

Logistics

 * Brendan to be given a list of booths etc to run around and put up signs
 * Polling place details for NSW in spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/a/pirateparty.org.au/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AswFEwjAHtmedEJxYXF1dDBIWUQ1VDFpZFFwbldONkE#gid=0
 * Wollongong is good to go for election day polling places & signs up
 * David has gotten lots of signs up around Newcastle/Maitland etc
 * some signs (in all areas) have been stolen
 * Some newcastle ones replaced with CDP signs
 * Link to preferences statement when asked about prefs online
 * this page also updated: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Preferences (but statement best link to use)
 * Vic and Qld should have a number of polling places covered
 * NOTE, refrain from jumping into twitter dramas
 * If you are getting hammered, jump on IRC and ask for assistance.

QLD

 * Qld booth spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AswFEwjAHtmedHVRbVdMZHN1ZEphWWZvS0J4Szg3b1E#gid=3
 * Mel has about 7 booths covered, plus will do 3 or 4
 * On election night is giving a guest speech at the Brisbane Activist centre election party :)
 * Will deliver HTVs to volunteers between tomorrow and Friday night
 * has volunteers and booths covered
 * campagning all day in the CBD Thursday

NSW

 * Be sure to run around and collect election signs that night
 * Brendan will do this in Sydney
 * NSW Booth Sopreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/a/pirateparty.org.au/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AswFEwjAHtmedEJxYXF1dDBIWUQ1VDFpZFFwbldONkE#gid=0
 * Will also extract a list of addresses for Brendan for inner city
 * Frew will contact Sunny to double check things are sorted

Vic

 * Joe will have Asher and Nick McCallum with him on election day
 * a phone-in with SynFM (Youth radio)
 * On Friday Melb folks will hit Southbank with how-to-votes getting the white collar crowd on the way to Flinders St Station, and then on Saturday hit targeted booths in the seat of Melbourne (Adam Bandt's seat) - we're still working on the booth targeting
 * Vic Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/a/pirateparty.org.au/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AswFEwjAHtmedFJPVFJrX193WlcwOWZjNXdyRG80SFE#gid=1
 * plan to hit the 2 or 3 busiest booths

Tas

 * HTVS have not arrived yet,
 * Still got a few flyers to get out but some more members are helping now which is great
 * Looking at around 5-6 ppl on polling day atm
 * Will send another email for support tonight
 * Tas Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/a/pirateparty.org.au/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AswFEwjAHtmedHFZSDJrNGdNMm4xeXNmV3NMRlBxQ3c#gid=0

Double Dissolution

 * ack
 * Abbott wants to scrap the carbon tax. it's his #1 priority, but he won't control the senate to get it done
 * Money would be an issue
 * Brendan would self fund if he had to
 * If a DD did happen....the bar for actually getting senate candidates in would drop. Our chances would improve by an order of magnitude.
 * Likely wouldnt happen for over a year and a half
 * 4% would be nice for funding, but not going to happen ;-P
 * have had a lot of support and donations, which is awesome, so hopefully would continue to get support. Amount of donors for this election bodes well for the long term.
 * whould be time to regroup and get shit together again if a Double dissolution does end up being called

Last Minute PRs

 * Mozart to do a 'getawarrant' site PR
 * Blackout is Radio/TV ads only so no problem with interviews, PRs etc etc

Other business

 * Work on getting shops for shirts etc is progressing (zazzle etc)
 * also: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Electioneering
 * and: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_briefs
 * point volunteers to these locations
 * gaining a lot of new members recently & media starting to take us seriously
 * positive vibe, preferences system popular
 * also will put up digital self printable HTVs with white space to add their own 'printed by' details.