Minutes/Policy Development Committee Meeting/2013-10-31

Agenda

 * Survey results
 * Working group formation

Attendance

 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
 * Andrew Downing
 * Brendan Molloy
 * Daniel Judge
 * Mark Gibbons

Political reform

 * Proposed areas to be included:
 * Campaign financing
 * Politics and media
 * Candidate deposits
 * Voting methods/systems
 * Power of JSCT
 * Number of representatives
 * Making represenatives more representative
 * Citizen-initiated referenda
 * Internal democracy in political parties
 * Political interference with department findings/reports
 * Political donations/funding/campaign contributions
 * Lobbyist rules
 * Entitlements
 * Anti-corruption measures (kickback prevention)
 * Alternative systems of government
 * Terms of office

Defence

 * We would be one of only two Pirate Parties with defence policies.
 * Heavily depends on the type of defence policy we want.
 * Evidence would back up the best way to achieve that.
 * Areas to be considered:
 * Transparency
 * Accountability
 * Defence culture
 * Independent psychological evaluations
 * Funding
 * UAVs.
 * Suggestion to put more detailed survey to members about defence.

Telecommunications

 * Areas to be considered:
 * Expansion of FTTP policy
 * Consumer protection on mobile plans
 * Access equity issues
 * Privacy issues
 * Education
 * Spectrum allocation
 * ACMA
 * Limiting anti-competitive behaviour

Science

 * Basic research
 * Funding
 * De-politicisation of research
 * Improve general research
 * Adopt similar approach to education policy
 * Autonomy
 * General encouragement of science

Human Rights

 * Can flesh out policy based on existing things:
 * Foreign bills of rights
 * International bill of rights
 * UDHR, etc.
 * Expand on our current bill of rights policy

Action items

 * Everyone to research the topics discussed, meet back in a fortnight.