Sydney Meetup 2014 02-22

Sydney Meetup 22nd Feb 2014

• 10th March there's a TPP public meeting at the Association of good government at 2pm.
• We should put the new submissions from the PDC on the website. It appears we haven't been doing anything since 2011
• Qld election went really well for us. Rumors of us polling higher than the greens likely propelled us upwards. 2 People per booth works well
• While we do not approve of the NSW "Coward's punch" laws, we do not have specific plans, as the policy will likely fail.
• George Brandis said some things about copyright. Amongst which was an accidental "Privacy is a scourge".
  • He wants a three strikes policy.
  • Choice wants to demonise file sharing and draw attention to fair use. This is foolish.
  • We need to show that fair use is in our economic interest
  • Fair use but with a three strikes policy still means that the government must necessarily snoop on our data.
  • IGEA (Games association) split from AFACT, they agree with our policies on classification. Not on other issues, but they are open minded.
• PDC has been working on a tax and welfare policy.
  • Everyone is very excited about it. Based around negative income tax and a wealth tax. We are also doing tax modelling (the only party to do so?)
    • Efficient and eliminates churn -- handing money to people who hand it back.
  • TIA submission is due next week. Around 12 pages done so far
  • "Protect the Children" submission is progressing.
  • IP Laws and Trademark review
    • Submission was put it. These were mostly good ideas but are threatened by the TPP.
• Sam Kearns will have a podcast, will interview Mel.
• Universal Join and Renewal forms are nearly ready.
• We need to do some party formation work.
• Ideas for NSW party:
  • Regional cities -- Better public transport between regional centres and incentives to move out there.