Minutes/Policy Development Committee Meeting/2018-03-13

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Agenda

Working Group Reporting:

• Electoral System Reform Policy - Jebd
• Patents - Creative Methods Act - Jesse_H
  • A dicourse has been created
• Startup and Innovation Policy - Vacant
  • 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.
• Job Guarantee Policy - Jesse_H
  • 65% 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

Deal with the wiki problems - Platform needs to be updated. Platform updates TBC, 2016 congress: Policy Motions 8, 10, and 11

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
• Alex J
• jedb

Start: 08:30PM AEDT

End: 11:35PM AEDT

Minutes

Working Group Reporting

• Electoral System Reform Policy - Jedb
  • Policy content finalised
  • Draft reviewed and to be passed onto AndrewD for further review
  • Sortition to be directed into a separate Citizen's Initiative amendment Working Group
• Patents - Creative Methods Act - Jesse_H
  • Ideas for updated patent policy have been discussed and developed on discourse
• Startup and Innovation Policy - Vacant
  • Mothballed until resources are available
• 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.
• Job Guarantee Policy - Jesse_H
  • MarkG to work on
  • Jesse_H to continue working on
• Agriculture Policy - Jesse_H
  • Mothballed
  • Will likely create a position statement at some point after JGWG

Wiki updates

• All Policy Motions from the 2016 congress are resolved, except for gun control which was missing the approved preamble.
• Gun control Preamble to be inserted into the platform. Related Links:
  • https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Platform#Justice
  • https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2016/Minutes#PM-11_.22Gun_Control.22
  • https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2016/Motions#PM-11:_Gun_Control
  • https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2016/Motions/Policy_and_Platform/Civil_Liberties_Gun_Control

Previous meeting minutes

https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/Policy_Development_Committee_Meeting/2018-02-13