Preferences/Future Party
We emailed all minor parties stating our intent to preference transparently and democratically, each party was invited to reply with an invitation to Pirate Party members to preference their party. Explanation of our request, intent and the email we sent, is available in our press release here: https://pirateparty.org.au/2013/07/18/pirate-party-leads-the-way-with-transparent-preferencing/
| Email response from the Future Party (Dated 22 July 2013) |
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The Future Party intends to preference organisations in a manner that simultaneously increases the distribution of votes to our party while ensuring that our policies are more likely to be enacted. We intend to preference the Pirate Party as high as the Pirate Party preferences to us, to the maximum extent that is compatible with our binding agreements with other groups. It is our belief that the Future Party and the Pirate Party have a lot in common in terms of policy priorities. Our parties are both strongly focused on technology and how it can improve our democracy and quality of life. Below are a list of policies for which we believe we explicitly have common ground: Open government (section 7.5) Whistleblower protection (section 7.6) Government filters on the internet (section 8.1) Routine collection of online behaviour by governments (section 8.2) Marriage equality (section 8.4) Welfare policy and the wastefulness of the existing systems that simultaneously provide welfare and tax individuals in a band considered to be at poverty levels (section 9.1) Our policy on the decriminalisation of drugs (section 10.7) Supporting the existing NBN plans (section 11.1)
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