Meeting Minutes

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General IRC Meeting (#ppau)

Start: 19:58 11/03/14 AEST

Finish: 20:56 11/03/14 AEST

Agenda

Senate election in WA on April 5
- our candidates are officially nominated now
Our pozible campaign has exceeded the $10,000 goal
March in March is on the Weekend
Frew spoke at I spoke at a TPP public meeting in Newtown last night, it was well attended and pretty good
- met the guy from Beyond Zero who is keen to discuss energy policy with us at some stage in the future

Since the NC gave the Policy Dev Committee (PDC) responsibility for submitting to inquiries, we've done three papers in the past month.
- Special thanks to Bill McLean for his contribution to the Enhancing Online Safety for Children submission. He did a fantastic job wading through it, and with AndrewD and Laura made a pretty good submission in the end.
Other two done by Frew and Mozart
There aren't really any Inquriy Working Groups going at the moment, but they will be listed here https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_Development_Committee#Inquiry_working_groups
Coming up in future is a broad 'inquiry into the 2013 federal election'
Working groups in policy development has been slow due to other committments/inquiries etc, but can now get underway again
- https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_Development_Committee#Policy_working_groups
- If you pay attention to above page and the calendar (https://pirateparty.org.au/calendar) you will see meetings crop up.
- All members get to participate in the working groups (simply turn up to the meetings or send an email to [email protected] if you're interested in helping).
- Fortnightly announcements should now recommence and will contain the dates, times and locations (irc) of all WG meetings.
There is a meeting for the Energy Working Group tomorrow night. #ppau-pdc at 8:30 pm (AEDT).
Privacy Tort Working Group is moving into drafting stages, so contact [email protected] to help out.

Reported by Frew on behalf of Mel
In Queensland there has been the formation of the Qld Civil Liberties Network and PPAU has been working on it since its foundation
- Mel and Dave have been attending meetings speaking at events etc
- There is a public meeting on March 23 which Mel is MCing

March in March Contigent to meet near the stage
Newcastle had a formal minuted meeting
Wollongong meetings on hold while DanielJ recovers
- perhaps see if someone else can organise to get them going again

Tas did get a state coordinator appointed (craige), but due to unforeseen circumstances this will be a short tenure as he has to move back to sydney in a couple of months
There is an in-person meetup this thursday night at the republic bar the idea being this will be a regular thing, second thursday of the month
- there is a very bare agenda: http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/tas-20140313
- there's a state election on saturday, we're not fielding anyone, and the liberals are expected to win

Since last meeting we've held a preselection meeting, selected candidates (myself and poedgirl) and completed nomination stuff with the AEC
Crowdfunding has raised over $11k
We've got an election meeting tomorrow evening in Perth, details here: https://pirateparty.org.au/ai1ec_event/wa-senate-election-meeting/?instance_id=5439
- Anyone that can come should - primary focus will be getting everyone up to speed and working out how many volunteers can be fielded on election day.
Some media coverage/interactions
- Fletcher was on ABC news last week (not for long) talking about the senate race.
- There will be an article on nofibs.com.au soon.
- Others include ECU daily, OUTinPerth and the Aug/MR mail (local paper down south)
- also a decent plug on Perth 6PR radio recently (practically a very concise version of our PR)
Fletcher noticing an increased awareness and approaches from people on public transport etc
Rebecca has also joined us, she's managing the WA Twitter account and Facebook page.
Thanks to Brendan for facilitating the preselection meeting as well as his continued work throughout the election, and also Mozart and Glenn
Thanks to the candidates for their work so far and in the future