Minutes/General Meeting/2014-01-14

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Agenda

• TPP Protests (Frew)
• TIA Act Review (Mozart)
• National Council constitutional amendment (Mozart)
• Policy Development Report (Mozart)
• State & Territory reports
  • ACT (Glen)
  • NSW (Sunny)
  • Qld (Mel)
  • SA (Bryn)
  • Tas (Thomas)
  • Vic (Ben)
  • WA (Fletcher)
• Any other business

Start: 20:03:46 Finish: 20:40:37

Attendance

• Simon Frew (Chair)
• Fletcher Boyd (WA Coord)
• Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer (NC/PDO)
• Brendan Molloy (NC)
• Bryn Busai (SA Coord)
• Glen Takkenberg (NC/ACT Coord)

Minutes

TPP Protests

• There is a round of Trans-Pacific Partnership protests coming up in February.
• Feb 7 was called as an international day of action by some Occupy-related activists.
• Anonymous has also gotten involved, and is claiming ownership.
• It has been quite aggressive, saying no Unions, NGOs or Greens are allowed to speak.
  • This is being ignored in Melbourne and possible Brisbane.
  • Sydney's organising has stagnated; it has fallen on Frew to organise.
  • There will be an organisational meeting this Saturday at 1:00 pm at the Paragon Hotel in Sydney.
  • The Sydney protest will likely be held separate from Anonymous.
• Pirate Party works well with the Greens, and the Greens do bring people along to protests.
• We need both the ALP and Greens on side to defeat the TPP
• Working with as broad a coalition as possible is the best option
• Should be approached on a city-by-city basis.
• See what is happening; help where possible; and avoid protests where the organisers aren't going to work in broad coalitions.
• We should avoid being lumped in with the fringe-dwellers.
• We can help organise additional protests away from Anonymous-organised ones if need be.

TIA Act Review

• A reminder that the submission for the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act is due in about a month, and if people would like to help there is a meeting in #ppau-tiarev next Tuesday at 8:30 pm (Sydney time).
• Email Frew if more details are needed, or ask questions in #ppau-tiarev.

National Council constitutional amendment

• A reminder to everyone that tomorrow night the National Council will vote to amend the Constitution.
• Raising this at the General Meeting for the purposes of transparency.
• Everyone should've got an announcement.
• It's to include a clause stating we're a non-profit organisation so we get benefits.
• The text is in the announcement, and will be presented at the NC meeting tomorrow night

PDC Report

• The first proper Policy Development Committee (PDC) meeting for a while happened last week.
• There have been a couple of resignations due to people with other commitments needing to leave.
• Received three new applications, and these will be voted on by the NC tomorrow night.
• Anyone else who wants to join can email [email protected] to apply.
• Applications get voted on by the NC every two weeks.
• There were four policy direction proposals put forward at the meeting last week.
  • Universal education, healthcare and childcare policies.
  • Revenge pornography policy.
  • Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians policy.
  • Develop a Tort of Privacy policy.
• Forming working groups for each of these.
• All members are permitted to be on these working groups.
• If you'd like to put your name down, please do so here: https://docs.google.com/a/pirateparty.org.au/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiFzeQ19ELxIdGRHbU9jam9kYWdzR2F1QmpuRGFQSWc&usp=drive_web#gid=0
• The next PDC meeting will be on Wednesday next week, at 8:30 pm (Sydney time) in #ppau-pdc

State and Territory Reports

ACT

• There is a local freedom of information review due by the end of January.
• Could put in a simple submission pushing for more transparency.
• A couple of pages can be of use.

NSW

• Absent

Qld

• Absent

SA

• Last meeting on 21 Dec 2013 was small.
• Attendees liked the draft state constitution.

Tas

• Absent

WA

• Had a face-to-face meeting to put names to faces.
• WA likes the draft constitution for their branch.
• Main thing WA is focusing on is developing a state-specific campaign for 2014.
• Talk of social events to help network the community in Perth that may be interested in PPAU's policies.