Minutes/General Meeting/2014-02-25

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Agenda

• Announcements (Frew)
  • Podcast
  • Copyright campaign
• WA Senate Election:
  • Preselection open
  • Redoing preferences
  • Pozible Campaign
• PDC report (Mozart):
  • TIA Review
  • Enhancing Online Safety for Children WG meeting tomorrow night
  • Privacy Tort WG meeting tomorrow night.
• State reports
  • Queensland
  • NSW
  • ACT
  • Victoria
  • Tasmania
  • South Australia
  • Western Australia

Start: 19:59
Finish: 21:55

Minutes

Announcements

Podcast

• Sam Kearns has reappeared and restarted his podcasting on our behalves
  • most recent edition is here https://pirateparty.org.au/2014/02/24/pirate-party-australia-webcast-episode-12/
• collaboration between Joe Miles and Sam Kearns is a possibility for the future (an

Copyright campaign

• Brandis has announced a push to crack down on filesharing
• he has floated a graduated response regime and site blocking
• we need to be ready to hammer any proposal as they rear their ugly heads
  • this is our core business
• get ready to post how-tos to help the public evade these filters, or mask their IP, etc
• there have been attempts to get infographics going, if anyone has ideas the pad is here: http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/infographic-concepts-text

WA Senate Election

• Preselection open
  • If you're a WA member to run please nominate yourself.
  • The party will cover the $2k per candidate cost and of other support etc
  • http://preselection.pirateparty.org.au

• Redoing preferences
  • We'll be redoing the preferences voting etc for WA, including any deals.
  • WA members will get to decide the preference order for the election.
  • Due to Ludlam being popular, we presume Greens will remain at #2

• Pozible Campaign
  • http://www.pozible.com/pirateswa2014
  • Promote this hard in all your circles, friends, families, communities
  • $3830 in first two days (yay)

• If you want to help out with the actual campaigning, please sign up at https://pirateparty.org.au/contribute/

PDC report

• TIA Review
  • The submission on the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act is due on Thursday.
  • Mozart and Frew have put a lot of work into it and pretty happy with it so far
  • the reading materials were 90 pages of legalese and a 3,000 page review of said 90 pages
  • read only link for review: https://www.writelatex.com/read/nyjcgvswkjns
    • contact Frew, Mozart, email [email protected] or use #ppau-pdc for suggestions, etc

• Enhancing Online Safety for Children
  • Enhancing Online Safety for Children Discussion Paper submission also in the works.
  • due in early March
  • There is a meeting for the working group on this review tomorrow night, at 8:30 pm in #ppau-pdc.
    • Everyone is welcome to attend it and participate and contribute etc
  • Overall the proposals are daft, unworkable and makes no sense for an online context.
  • http://www.communications.gov.au/online_safety_and_security/cyber_safety/Discussion_Paper_Enhancing_Online_Safety_for_Children

• Privacy Tort WG
  • Meeting is at 9:30 pm tomorrow night, #ppau-pdc, hopefully after the other working group.
  • If they clash, we'll just use a different channel and tell everyone.
  • Same thing as before: participate if you want to work on expanding our privacy policy.