Minutes/National Council/2012-05-22
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Attendance
- David Campbell
- Simon Frew
- Brendan Molloy
- Rodney Serkowski
Minutes
National Congress 2012
- $550/day at UniMelb too expensive; no other reasonable options except for Trade Halls Victoria
- Decision to be made on:
- Allow one more week to search for suitable Melbourne venues
- Find a location in NSW
- Think of suggestions for congress theme for next National Council Meeting
Malaysia-Australia Free Trade Agreement
- In discussion since 2005
- IP chapter similar to provisions from draft TPPA proposed by the USA
- Deliberately vague terminology, e.g. "service provider"
- Extension of trademarks
- Details of treaty only revealed after signing
- Very little mainstream media coverage
TPP Plans for 24/5/12
- Point out to DFAT several recommendations of the Productivity Comission violated
- Demand release of text
- Brendan and Simon to travel to Canberra, Rodney unconfirmed
- Opportunity to met with Senator Ludlam (Greens) and Dr. Rimmer (ANU)
- Opportunity to flyer
- Public consultations by DFAT are a joke; stakeholder feedback not used constructively
Online sign up form
- "it's pretty cool, doesn't afraid of anything" - Brendan
- Workaround implemented for most bugs
- 90 members acquired this month (5% via paper form)
- 20% increase in the membership base
- 25 - 40% of new members are female
- Adequate buffer of members attained to achieve AEC registration successfully
Bank accounts
- Letters drafted
- Waiting on NAB to open accounts
- Bank account details on existing printed promotional material to be blacked out
- Existing account to be maintained for one financial year and signatures changed
Freedom of Information system
- Proposed name: "Privateer"
- Effectively a streamlined bug tracker for FOI requests
- 1 - 2 months development time
Action items
- Send email to Melbourne chapter informing them of the 1 week deadline to find an alternate venue