Minutes/Policy Development Committee Meeting/2013-10-31
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Agenda
- Survey results
- Working group formation
Attendance
- Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
- Andrew Downing
- Brendan Molloy
- Daniel Judge
- Mark Gibbons
Apologies
Minutes
Survey results
Political reform
- Proposed areas to be included:
- Campaign financing
- Politics and media
- Candidate deposits
- Voting methods/systems
- Power of JSCT
- Number of representatives
- Making represenatives more representative
- Citizen-initiated referenda
- Internal democracy in political parties
- Political interference with department findings/reports
- Political donations/funding/campaign contributions
- Lobbyist rules
- Entitlements
- Anti-corruption measures (kickback prevention)
- Alternative systems of government
- Terms of office
Defence
- We would be one of only two Pirate Parties with defence policies.
- Heavily depends on the type of defence policy we want.
- Evidence would back up the best way to achieve that.
- Areas to be considered:
- Transparency
- Accountability
- Defence culture
- Independent psychological evaluations
- Funding
- UAVs.
- Suggestion to put more detailed survey to members about defence.
Telecommunications
- Areas to be considered:
- Expansion of FTTP policy
- Consumer protection on mobile plans
- Access equity issues
- Privacy issues
- Education
- Spectrum allocation
- ACMA
- Limiting anti-competitive behaviour
Science
- Basic research
- Funding
- De-politicisation of research
- Improve general research
- Adopt similar approach to education policy
- Autonomy
- General encouragement of science
Human Rights
- Can flesh out policy based on existing things:
- Foreign bills of rights
- International bill of rights
- UDHR, etc.
- Expand on our current bill of rights policy
Action items
- Everyone to research the topics discussed, meet back in a fortnight.