Minutes/General Meeting/2014-05-06

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Meeting Minutes
This document is a record of a meeting. Do not edit this document without contacting the relevant group first.


General IRC Meeting (#ppau)

Start: 19:59 06/05/14 AEST

Finish: 21:26 06/05/14 AEST

Agenda

  • Anti-piracy proposals
  • Congress 2014
  • Policy Development Committee report
  • Social Media report
  • State reports

Attendance

  • Melanie Thomas (Chair)
  • Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer (NC/PDO)
  • Brendan Molloy (*)
  • Bryn Busai (SA Coord)
  • Michael Keating (QLD Coord)
  • Glen Takkenberg (NC/ACT Coord)
  • Ben McGinnes (NC/Vic Coord)
  • Tim Serong (Tas Coord)
  • Fletcher Boyd (WA Coord)
  • Rebecca Howard (Social Media)
  • + others

Apologies

  • Daniel Judge

Minutes

General Announcements

  • Some reported slowness on website
  • Officers were sent an email about composing officers reports, reports coming in.
  • Note that people need to think about nominating for position at Congress since there are a number of office holders who will not re-contest their positions

Anti-piracy proposals

National Congress

Policy Development Committee

  • Did a submission on the proposed repeal of s 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.
    • It was okay. It's an area that's particularly difficult, and I did a lot of thinking about how best to approach it.
    • It wasn't an exact repeal, it was more of a replacement/amendment.
  • PDC working on several policy proposals for Congress.
    • Hope to have some amendments to the energy policy to bring it up to date.
    • There might also be something on taxation.
    • An expanded privacy policy dealing with a tort of privacy and criminal penalties for revenge pornography.
    • Domestic violence I'm hoping we'll have a proposal on.
    • Constitutional reform, especially anticipating the referendum expected in September/October on recongition of Indigenous Australians.
      • It also will likely have a position on republicanism.
  • quite a few policy votes for congress then
  • Meetings of the policy development committee are every fortnight on Wednesday. (Next week at 8:30 pm will be the next one.)
  • Working Groups meet on and off, depending on when they're needed.
  • There's a list of current activities here https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_Development_Committee#What_Is_Happening_Right_Now
  • If you're interested in contributing, please shoot an email to [email protected] and we'll tell you how best to contribute.
  • The Committee has been plagued by absenteeism for a variety of reasons lately.
    • So progress has been difficult.
  • Domestic Violence WG probably created next week. -- Needs a Chair (Delegate Keating to it?)

State Reports

VIC

  • Ben has been swamped with other stuff
    • No meetings for some time.
    • Wont be standing for Vic Co-ord agian at congress, needs a new person.
  • Some desire for resurrecting mumble as there are regional folks who cant easily make in person meetings

QLD

  • Qld has dropped off over the last 8 weeks or so because both Mel and Keating are busy with the civil liberties business
    • would be good for us all to get back on track, even if only monthly
    • Did get one new visitor last Wednesday
    • Will look at changing the meets to relevant Thursday nights however as it's been indicated that thursday is a better day
  • Keating has started planning with regards to the Branch Formation Comittee so he'll reach out to the nominated people soon to get that ball rolling
  • Wrote a letter to Mr Newman re his changes to HTVs at elections
  • Will be busy with this renewed focus on piracy law changes, but would be good to get some of the Branch formation stuff knocked out before Congress
  • Request for Queenslanders to sign petition to preserve the CMC. We've (QCLN) joined up with the Lawyers Alliance to start the Save the CMC Coalition. It never stops.

ACT

  • Only had two responses to the request about when we should meetup and it seems that midweek is the go

NSW

TAS

SA

  • after a hiatus (due to lack of organisation) regular meetings will occur every fortnight starting next Wednesday!

WA

  • After the post election meeting last month we're moving back to monthly social meetups, next one is the week of the 19th, almost definitely at the moon and sixpence.
  • That and a general summary of goings on will be on the wa announcement mailing list (hopefully) tomorrow.
  • On the subject of Congress, a few WA pirates have indicated that they'll be flying over for merriment and meetings.

General Business


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