General news relating to Pirate Party Australia
Due to vacancies left at the 2017 Congress we held an election for a position on the Dispute Resolution Committee and the role of Deputy President. 180 out of a possible 1,344 full members voted.
The full breakdown of results can be found on the Party’s voting server for a short time, including raw JSON data.
The software used is Oyster, a free and open source voting system.
The results of Pirate Party Australia’s July 2017 National Congress are in!
The Pirate Party held its National Congress in Melbourne on July 29—30 for the purposes of amending the Party Constitution, amending and adopting policies and deciding leadership positions, and as an opportunity for members of the Party to socialise in person. The results of the now-concluded week-long voting period can be announced. The Party had a turnout of approximately 14% from a pool of 1,355 participants.
On 25 February 2017 the Pirate Party is planning on holding a tall ship party on the beautiful Sydney Harbour. The event is to raise money for the running of the Pirate Party and to help fund future campaigns.
“To paraphrase Cicero ‘the sinews of politics is infinite money’, and that’s something we can only dream of having,” said Simon Frew, President of the Pirate Party. “We hope to help replenish our coffers by putting on a ‘Pirate Party pirate party’ on Sydney Harbour. The party will be fully catered, with vegetarian options and alcohol for sale. It will be a fancy dress party so we encourage everyone to come in their best Pirate garb!”
There will be food, drinks and DJs as we sail the Harbour in the late Summer breeze.
When: Saturday 25 February 2017, from 6:30–10:30pm
Where: The Rocks, Sydney Harbour (exact location to be confirmed)
Cost: $110 – Limited tickets so get in quick!
Booking: Book online via pirateparty.org.au or https://www.trybooking.com/Booking/BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=229796
The results of Pirate Party Australia’s July 2016 National Congress are in!
The Pirate Party held its National Congress in Hobart on July 23—24 for the purposes of amending the Party Constitution, amending and adopting policies and deciding leadership positions, and as an opportunity for members of the Party to socialise in person. The results of the now-concluded week-long voting period can be announced. The Party had a turnout of approximately 21% from a pool of 1,316 participants.
Pirate Party Australia has completed its initial member ballot for our preference orders for the 2016 federal election.
These results will inform the parties and voting order we suggest on our How to Vote materials and will influence any possible deals made with other parties.
In keeping with the Pirate Party’s commitment to transparency and participatory democracy, last election the Party pioneered a form of preferencing unprecedented in Australian politics. We have continued to use that process for subsequent elections and this election.
We sent all full members of the party an electronic ballot in which they could rank all registered parties* in order of how they should be preferenced. The ballot allowed for equal rankings and to leave parties with no vote to rank them equal last.
Should any party offer us deals that result in changing this order we are able to run subsequent ballots state by state to approve any such deals.
A final decision on how many parties we list on our How to Vote materials will be made soon.
The resulting order of party preferences are as follows: