Minutes/General Meeting/2014-03-11

=General IRC Meeting (#ppau)=

Start: 19:58 11/03/14 AEST

Finish: 20:56 11/03/14 AEST

Agenda

 * Welcome and announcements (Chair)
 * PDC report
 * State reports
 * Queensland
 * NSW
 * Tasmania
 * Western Australia

National Council, Co-ordinators and Officers

 * Simon Frew (NC/Chair)
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer (NC/PDO)
 * Fletcher Boyd (WA/Candidate)
 * Glen Takkenberg (NC/ACT)
 * Mark Gibbons (NC)
 * Michelle Allen (WA Candidate)
 * Daniel Judge (NC)
 * Tim Serong (Tas)
 * David Campbell (NC)

Apologies

 * Melanie Thomas

Welcome and announcements

 * Senate election in WA on April 5
 * our candidates are officially nominated now
 * Our pozible campaign has exceeded the $10,000 goal
 * March in March is on the Weekend
 * Frew spoke at I spoke at a TPP public meeting in Newtown last night, it was well attended and pretty good
 * met the guy from Beyond Zero who is keen to discuss energy policy with us at some stage in the future

PDC report

 * Since the NC gave the Policy Dev Committee (PDC) responsibility for submitting to inquiries, we've done three papers in the past month.
 * Special thanks to Bill McLean for his contribution to the Enhancing Online Safety for Children submission. He did a fantastic job wading through it, and with AndrewD and Laura made a pretty good submission in the end.
 * Other two done by Frew and Mozart
 * There aren't really any Inquriy Working Groups going at the moment, but they will be listed here https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_Development_Committee#Inquiry_working_groups
 * Coming up in future is a broad 'inquiry into the 2013 federal election'
 * Working groups in policy development has been slow due to other committments/inquiries etc, but can now get underway again
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_Development_Committee#Policy_working_groups
 * If you pay attention to above page and the calendar (https://pirateparty.org.au/calendar) you will see meetings crop up.
 * All members get to participate in the working groups (simply turn up to the meetings or send an email to policydev@pirateparty.org.au if you're interested in helping).
 * Fortnightly announcements should now recommence and will contain the dates, times and locations (irc) of all WG meetings.
 * There is a meeting for the Energy Working Group tomorrow night. #ppau-pdc at 8:30 pm (AEDT).
 * Privacy Tort Working Group is moving into drafting stages, so contact policydev@pirateparty.org.au to help out.

QLD

 * Reported by Frew on behalf of Mel
 * In Queensland there has been the formation of the Qld Civil Liberties Network and PPAU has been working on it since its foundation
 * Mel and Dave have been attending meetings speaking at events etc
 * There is a public meeting on March 23 which Mel is MCing

NSW

 * March in March Contigent to meet near the stage
 * Newcastle had a formal minuted meeting
 * Wollongong meetings on hold while DanielJ recovers
 * perhaps see if someone else can organise to get them going again

Tas

 * Tas did get a state coordinator appointed (craige), but due to unforeseen circumstances this will be a short tenure as he has to move back to sydney in a couple of months
 * There is an in-person meetup this thursday night at the republic bar the idea being this will be a regular thing, second thursday of the month
 * there is a very bare agenda: http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/tas-20140313
 * there's a state election on saturday, we're not fielding anyone, and the liberals are expected to win

WA

 * Since last meeting we've held a preselection meeting, selected candidates (myself and poedgirl) and completed nomination stuff with the AEC
 * Crowdfunding has raised over $11k
 * We've got an election meeting tomorrow evening in Perth, details here: https://pirateparty.org.au/ai1ec_event/wa-senate-election-meeting/?instance_id=5439
 * Anyone that can come should - primary focus will be getting everyone up to speed and working out how many volunteers can be fielded on election day.
 * Some media coverage/interactions
 * Fletcher was on ABC news last week (not for long) talking about the senate race.
 * There will be an article on nofibs.com.au soon.
 * Others include ECU daily, OUTinPerth and the Aug/MR mail (local paper down south)
 * also a decent plug on Perth 6PR radio recently (practically a very concise version of our PR)
 * Fletcher noticing an increased awareness and approaches from people on public transport etc
 * Rebecca has also joined us, she's managing the WA Twitter account and Facebook page.
 * Thanks to Brendan for facilitating the preselection meeting as well as his continued work throughout the election, and also Mozart and Glenn
 * Thanks to the candidates for their work so far and in the future