Meeting Minutes

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General IRC Meeting (#ppau)

Start: 19:59 20/05/2014 AEST

Finish: 21:06 20/05/2014 AEST

Agenda

Announcements
Upcoming Congress
- Accepting Constitutional Amendments until 19 June --- email [email protected]
- Policy proposals open now, please refer to PDC first so policies can be made neat --- [email protected]
- Nominations open until Congress --- add here https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2014/Nominations
PDC
State & Territory reports
- ACT (Glen)
- NSW (Sunny)
- Qld (Michael)
- SA (Bryn)
- Tas (Tim)
- Vic (Ben)
- WA (Fletcher)
Any other business

+ others

Change.org petition
- currently sitting at just over 5000 signatures - but we still need to get to 10K
- so please try and share as much as possible across social networks etc so we can have Ludlam present a nice chunky petition in parliament
- Budget stalled things a bit, need to reinvigorate
- naturally once the relevant legislation is announced, the petition will light up

General reminder: https://pirateparty.org.au/2014/05/03/pirate-congress-2014/
- all coming along nicely
- Dates are official, weekend of 19th July, and at the Irish Club, Brisbane
- ensure you raise your hand for positions and nominate, new blood is good and some vacancies are expected
Important: Accepting Constitutional Amendments until 19 June --- email [email protected]
- some already submitted: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2014/Constitutional_Amendments
Policy proposals open now, please refer to PDC first so policies can be made neat --- [email protected]
Nominations open until Congress --- add here https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2014/Nominations

those in the QLD Branch formation committee got an email last week with some general information
- Keating plans to tee up some time with those people to talk further about general things, which he'll will try and do in the next week or so
There is a QLD meeting night for next Thursday at O'Malley's in the CBD
Note: Keating will be out of the country for the following meeting
also QCLN have stuff planned too: a public Save the CMC meeting is next on the agenda the last meeting at City Hall got about 150 ppl

NSW (Sydney) meeting in 2 weekends time
Newcastle meetings have fizzled, but SamKearns is back in Newcastle so may be some movement there, David and Sam planning a mini satellite congress (get together on congress day for those not traveling to QLD)

Meeting held, number of apologies meaning small turnout
- minutes: http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/tas-20140508
Tim is away for a bit next month, so will have a deputy host a monthly meeting to try to keep regular activity.
Rundll got to March in Hobart, turn out of about 500 people, met one other pp member there and handed out a ton of flyers
Tim and Hanrahan talking about trying to get some PPAU-branded talks going provided we can find speakers thinking: policy (not politics, not philosophy), but some way we can help to bring transparency in some concrete way
- wait ti back after next month before persuing further.

A meeting was held at the Worldsend on 2014-05-14 bus over the federal budget).
Maybe picked a bad day/time or maybe it was the budget... will try again next week!
would like to (with the NC) start a SA PR / Recruitment campaign sometime in the next 2 years

Meetup next week at the Moon and Sixpence
Fletcher has an interview with WTV Perth tomorrow morning.
Fletcher mentioned a while ago about reaching out to the VA community in WA and he's had a few meetings with various community leaders. Once there's something more concrete he'll report back.