Minutes/Policy Development Committee Meeting/2017-10-10

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Agenda

Working Group Reporting:

• Electoral System Reform Policy - Jebd
• Patents - Creative Methods Act - AndrewD
  • A dicourse has been created, but no discussion so far
• Startup and Innovation Policy - AndrewD
  • Will it be mothballed?
• Rent Collection Policies - MarkG
  • Need to create a discourse discussion?
  • Anti-Rent Seeking Position Statement (ARSPS) under Declaration_of_platform_and_principles
  • Jesse_H to add in stuff on Resource Rents, water rights etc. - busy with uni and exam prep until 15/11
• Job Guarantee Policy - Jesse_H
  • Meeting scheduled for 26/09/17 went well
  • 60% finished, need to finish off JG/BI complementary section and trial diversity section of preamble
  • https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/PDC_Job_Guarantee
• Agriculture Policy - Jesse_H
  • Mothballed
  • Will likely create a position statement at some point after JGWG

Schedule WG meeting times

Platform needs to be updated, both from the 2017 congress and 2016 congress

Follow up:

• MarkG - draft updates for Energy policy?
• Space WG - to be set up for recruitment?
• MilesW to update space policy, digitise notes in a pad?
• Treasury's tax/transfer model for BI

General Discussion

Attendance

• Jesse H
• Bill M
• Andrew D
• Twisty
• Alex J
• JedB
• Mark G

Start: 08:30PM AEDT

End: 10:30PM AEDT

Minutes

Working Group Reporting

• Electoral System Reform Policy - Jedb
  • Nothing to report, been busy
• Patents - Creative Methods Act - AndrewD
  • Nothing to report, discourse yet to be engaged in
  • Will return to once discourse has begun and after Startups/Innovation
• Startup and Innovation Policy - AndrewD
  • To prioritise over Patents
• Rent Collection Policies - MarkG
  • MarkG to steer
  • Need to create a discourse discussion
  • Anti-Rent Seeking Position Statement (ARSPS) under Declaration_of_platform_and_principles to be made at a later date
  • Jesse_H to add in stuff on Resource Rents, water rights etc. - busy with uni and exam prep until 15/11
• Job Guarantee Policy - Jesse_H
  • MarkG to work on
• Agriculture Policy - Jesse_H
  • Mothballed
  • Will likely create a position statement at some point after JGWG

Schedule WG meeting times

Scheduled PDC Meeting to update the wiki policy platform: 24/10/17

Previous meeting minutes

https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/Policy_Development_Committee_Meeting/2017-09-12