Minutes/General Meeting/2013-08-27

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Meeting Minutes
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General IRC Meeting (#ppau)

Start: 20:02 27/8/13 AEST

Finish: 21:11 27/8/13 AEST

Rules

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


Agenda

  • A last social media push
    • A call for good memes
  • State & Territory reports
    • ACT (Glen)
    • NSW (Sunny)
    • Qld (Mel)
    • SA (Bryn)
    • Tas (Thomas)
    • Vic (Ben)
    • WA (Krystin)
  • The logistics of polling day
    • Polling Places
  • Any other business

Attendance

National Council, Co-ordinators, Candidates and Officers

  • Simon Frew (Chair)
  • Daniel Judge
  • Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
  • Mark Gibbons
  • David Campbell
  • Sunny Kalsi
  • Ben McGinnes
  • Glen Takkenberg
  • Brendan Molloy
  • Bryn Busai
  • Joe Miles
  • Tom Storey
  • + a number of other general members etc

Apologies

  • Melanie Thomas
  • Thomas Randle

Minutes

Social media push

Video

  • hard to get to look professional
  • meet the pirates type thing or other ideas


State/Territory reports

QLD

  • Dave picking up more flyers & corflutes from Mel Wed afternoon for distribution in his area, which is inner East Brisbane.
  • Also dropping some flyers to Miles, who is inner South.
    • Both have already placed corflutes in their areas as have I. I'll continue to cover inner north, south and west over Wed & Thurs afternoon.

NSW

  • have been focusing on getting flyers to volunteers and have been flyering on the weekend
  • next weekend there's another meeting
    • Hopefully 'How to Vote' cards will be in by this meeting
    • start with a regular meeting, show some new volunteers the usual place
    • then hand out flyers and HTVs to volunteers
    • start with some flyering beforehand
  • Corflutes and flyers have also made it to Wollongong and North Coast with things happening there
    • Wollongong Saturday meeting, plan to meet first then do some street campaigning/flyering
      • Meet at Hideaway cafe 11:30
    • Neewcastle meeting on weekend, final push meeting before election, disseminate flyers etc
    • Newcastle have blanketted Maitland, Lake Macquarie and Charlestown with flyers, plan on targeting Hamilton area next

Vic

  • Had a meeting on saturday, minutes to come soon
  • Mark Street is distributing signs to people able to display them. Could use more volunteers to supply them to.
  • Flyering run planned for this weekend
    • Saturday morning on Brunswick st
    • Saturday afternoon on Ackland st
    • Sunday, south east, possibly some shopping centres if allowed. Chadstone etc
  • The next big order of flyers havent arrived yet, but Ben suspects courier was missed while retrieving other stuff from P.O.
  • We've also resolved to encourage all volunteers to vote during the week before the election, so people are free on the day itself to focus on influencing other peoples' votes
  • Currently figuring out which polling places are best to target
    • most likely inner city: places like Brunswick, Fitzroy, Melbourne and Richmond. Also Kensington.
  • Joe has a spot on Syn FM election day (youth radio network in Melb)

SA

  • SA, meeting was called, no-one showed up
  • will call an IRC meeting for in a fortnight.

Polling day

Polling Locations