Minutes/General Meeting/2014-02-11

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Agenda

• Griffith by-election (Mel or Brendan)
• "Day we fight back" (Frew)
• "March in March" (Frew)
• Policy Development Report
• State & Territory reports
  • ACT (Glen)
  • NSW (Sunny)
  • Qld (Mel)
  • SA (Bryn)
  • Tas (Tim)
  • Vic (Ben)
  • WA (Fletcher)
• Any other business
• Current membership numbers
• Newcastle updates
• Translation of promotional materials (Bryn)

Start: 20:44
Finish: 21:25

Attendance

• Fletcher Boyd (WA)
• Mark Gibbons
• Simon Frew
• Daniel Judge
• Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
• Bryn Busai (SA)
• David Campbell
• Sunny Kalsi (NSW)
• Sam Kearns

Apologies

• Melanie Thomas (speaking at rally)

Minutes

Griffith by-election

• result: 1.5%
• over 1k votes
• 1.5% compared to 0.7% in Senate election (qld)
• result = great assistance in people taking us more seriously
• PR was sent
• congrats and thanks to Mel and everyone who helped out, especially volunteers on the ground.

Day we fight back

• Today is the EFF organised Internet blackout against NSA surveillance
• we have blacked out our site
• Frew have an interview with ABC local radio in the morning
• its a good chance to raise concerns about NSA etc ASD in Australia
• the day has got some coverage, Scott Ludlam has been doing a lot (Guardian article and gave Brandis a good serve in the Senate today)
  • http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/11/day-fight-back-against-internet-surveillance-scott-ludlam
  • http://greensmps.org.au/content/speeches-parliament/take-note-speech-attorney-generals-hysterical-answer-surveillance-overre

March in March

• This is a series of protests around the country against the Abbott Government.. it is meant to encompas all issues
• It's a good oportunity to raise surveillance and TPP, as well as show opposition to the government
• Concentrating on turnout in capitals depsite some regional protects such as Wollongong
• some banners, corflutes, t-shirts etc would be good to take along
• revisit again in lead up

Policy Development Report

• The Policy Development Committee has continued working on new policies for July and beyond.
• Not much new to report since the last meeting, as we haven't taken on anything new.
• There are a few things currently in the pipeline.
• The PDC also oversees working groups: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_Development_Committee#What_Is_Happening_Right_Now
  • As you can see, we have several working groups and meetings going on.
• All members can get involved in those and contribute to policy development and inquiry submissions.
• There is a meeting tonight, after this meeting, in #ppau-pdc, for the privacy tort working group.
• And on Thursday night we will have a meeting for the Enhancing Online Safety for Children Inquiry Working Group.
  • Please come along if you're interested.
• We're also working on another submission for the TIA Act review and would like a hand with that.
  • We're not planning any other meetings as of yet, but if you want to help, shoot an email to either [email protected] or [email protected]

State & Territory reports

ACT

• still haven't organised a congress
• Aus Digital Alliance forum is on this Friday, Glenn (taco) will be attendcing as will Mozart & Brendan

NSW

• had the usual monthly meetup
• there is a public meeting about the TPP on March 10 at Newtown Neighbourhood centre
  • details here: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Sydney_Meetup_2014-01-25

SA

• Sunday there was a meeting with Mozart and couple other members
  • The #1 LDP Canditate for SA was there and was trying to do a new version of the minor parties alliance without Glenn Druery,
    • Bryn was asked to establish a set of establishing rules and a better name for said group.
    • The group's role is about sharing campaigns, sharing scruteneers, educating voters and some other ideas. Bryn's aim is to make a framework for extending the group nationally.
  • We tried to find any local issues to be campaign on... and the pirates had no idea!

WA

• Fletcher spoke at a TPP community forum on Wednesday, was a good insight into the Perth activist community.
  • some surprising issues/problems with this event such as "speaking fees" etc
  • Video: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e03222d7a3b106f3f9c57fa07&id=f4e6ff7c29&e=d555ba7413
• We also looked at attending the Cruelty Free Festival but I haven't heard back from the stall coordinator yet.

What are our current membership numbers

• just over 1000, little changed from last week
• renewal fees due soon when new webform comes online
• new members trickling in far outweighs the odd resignation here and there

Newcastle updates

• Some newcastle peeps want to put together a regular update, hopefully daily, start with a WG to assess if we can do it, Wendy Gator is a good candidate to spearhead it
• basically get newcastle into gear and being all serious and grown up
• also please to ensure any meetings organised (BY ANYONE FOR ANYWHERE), that IT is emailed to it can be added to the calendar.

Translation of promotional materials

• Possibility of broadening our exposure if we translated materials into other languages.
  • also plays to our profile as an international movement
• an idea we should pursue at some stage between now and the next federal election.
• there should be some people in the party who can speak other languages
• also able to garner some help from international counterparts