Minutes/General Meeting/2013-08-13

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Meeting Minutes
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General IRC Meeting (#ppau)

Start: 20:05 13/08/13 AEST

Finish: 21:45 13/08/13 AEST

Rules

Rules conveyed as available here: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/General_Meeting/Rules


Agenda

  • Press etc
  • Election stuff and materials
  • Preferencing
  • Policy Development Officer Report (Mozart)
    • Policy Briefs
  • State & Territory reports
    • ACT Coordinator (Glen)
    • NSW Coordinator (Sunny)
    • QLD Coordinator (Mel)
    • SA Coordinator (Bryn)
    • Tas Coordinator (Thomas)
    • Vic Coordinator (Ben)
  • Other business

Attendance

  • Roughly 10+ including many new names

National Council

  • Daniel Judge(Chair)
  • Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
  • Brendan Molloy
  • Simon Frew
  • Ben McGinnes
  • Glen Takkenberg

Officers/Co-ordinators

  • Policy Development Officer (Mozart)
  • Bryn Busai (SA)
  • Glen Takkenberg (ACT)
  • Thomas Randle (Tas)
  • Ben McGinnes (Vic)

Apologies

  • Mel Thomas (QLD)

Minutes

Press

  • Have had some good coverage, Illawarra Mercury with Daniel and Frew, Brendan and Joe with separate Radio interviews (SBS and a Melbourne station), Mel getting stuff done on Brisbane etc
  • Lot's of Press Releases going out.
    • Mozart doing lots of good work
    • irc #ppau-press for helping out
      • will get booted from that channel if only ever lurking & not helping though

Election Materials and stuff

  • More Volunteers needed for election day (and lead up, but especially sept 7)
  • 250 Corflute signs ordered today
  • 20k flyers being printed (Blue DL)
  • How to Vote cards being designed
  • If interested in helping with campaign materials: #ppau-campaigns channel
  • AEC Nomination forms done, cheques mailed.

Preferences ballot

  • 12pm tomorrow ballot closes
  • then the deals ballot will be sent out
    • it will close on 12pm Thursday
  • on Friday we get the forms (GVT)
    • on Saturday we submit the forms to the AEC in each state
  • this page has the details of the preference decision process: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Preferences
  • Special thanks to Brendan and Glen for lots of the work regarding preferences

Policy Development Officer Report

  • There's a halt on policy development until after September 7.
    • So no one email suggestions, please, or they will get lost.
  • After Sep 7, we'll be issuing a survey to the members asking them to decide the direction we develop policy in.
    • The general idea was to offer up to 20 policy areas that members could rank preferentially (like the ballot we just did).
    • And it would also include a field for people to write anything we may have missed.
    • Policy areas will probably be things like: health, employment, (maybe firearms) etc.
    • hopefully we'll be able to issue that between Sep 7 and Sep 14.
  • We'll also be revising existing policies after the 7th.
    • Introducing additional citations and generally making improvements.
  • discussion re Welfare policy details.
  • Email [email protected] for details on policies or clarifications etc

Policy Briefs

  • https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_briefs
  • Brief descriptions of our policies to explain to the media quickly.
    • Primarily these were for candidates, and anyone doing media relations stuff (eg. President)
    • But if you're thinking of talking to people about our policies, they might come in useful.
    • One to two sentences, and a five point outline for each policy.
      • Of course, it's no subsitute for actually reading our Platform and policies, but it will help if you're trying to remember the key facets.

State & Territory Reports

ACT

  • No new news. (will election campaign in Queenbeyan for NSW as no ACT candidate)

SA

  • Meeting planned for Saturday

TAS

  • Have done two weekends of flyer distro, boots on the street, a digital privacy event is also in the works

VIC

  • Ben sick for last meeting and so Geoff took over
    • weather prevent much showing
  • AEC meeting tomorrow
  • Ben has a meeting at free software melb on thursday

QLD

  • Apology from Mel as she is on the road

Other Business

  • We are on here now: https://yourview.org.au/forums/5/
  • Script for campaign launch video about
    • would be good to get it done
  • General discussion re advertising, election costs & donations
    • most ppau donations are from members with a few standout members putting in decent amounts of personal money



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