Minutes/Election Committee Meeting/2013-05-21
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Agenda
- Election Mailout 1 (Frew)
- Campaigns Reportback (Thomas)
- Political developments and response (Frew)
- Censorship by ASIC and other departments, government implementing opaque censorship regime
- TPP and LNP support for Investor-State Tribunals, assault on sovereignty
- Media (Mozart)
- Fundraising (Frew)
Attendance
- Simon Frew
- Brendan Molloy
- Mozart Palmer
- Glen Takkenberg
- Thomas Randle
- David Campbell
- Melanie Thomas
- Liam Pomfret
- Ben Mc Guinness
- Rodney Serkowski
- Geoff Hammett
- Joe Miles
Minutes
Election Mailout 1
- 9 responses so far.
- A few designers, more letterbox stuffers, election day leafletters.
- Thomas Randle to contact designers for campaigns contributions
- State co-ordinators to look after each states contacts for propaganda distribution.
- Ben McGuinness to look into the rules for distribution of electoral rolls.
- Another mailout next month
Political developments and response
- Discussion of Using section 313 of Communications Act as a backdoor to censor Internet.
- Brendan has submitted a FOI and had the application refused
- Mozart to start a PR and Brendan to add quotes
- Discussion about ways to raise the 313 issue more broadly, 'Team 313' possibly forming a coalition of Parties opposed to the use of 313 provisions to censor websites.
- Discussion about campaigning on various issues and candidates trying to get media through various means, including contributing pieces to news outlets.
- The Coalition supporting Investor State Dispute Rsolution Tribunals a concerning development for TPPA negotiations
- PR to be done by Frew and Melanie
Campaigns Reportback
- Need to get fundraising into a form we can launch on social media, added volunteer for to Website
Media
- Much of the discussion covered in previous agenda items.
- Need candidates to contact local media sites, like free papers, local ABC radio, local commercial radio stations
- Reiteration of request for candidates to try and get published in ABC Unleashed etc
Fundraising
- Having a better than usual month in terms of income
- Got a $200 donation because a Journalist spelled Molloy wrong.
- Discussion of a reward for donation plan, generally opposed after Swag debacle.
- Idea floated of a goals based approach listing what each goal will enable us to buy.
- Payment gateway almost complete, making Credit Card donations easier to process.
- Discussion of merchandise, using a TShirt printing company to distribute PPAU TShirts