Yes, please keep discussion of particular policies out of this thread. I too have opinions of my which I will not clutter with here.
As an aside, is everyone in each working group on the policydev email list? If not how do we fix this? I’m not yet familiar how our email lists function. Still need to get up to speed on all the whiz bang PPAU IT tools I have at my disposal.
I don’t have much to contribute here. It’s a distraction from my primary role. I’ll be an observer more than contributor. Same for the other WG’s.
We need more Pirates, not policy.
edit: but, have at it.
Okay that is a good point.
I too don’t feel adequately qualified to lead and work alone on this. My thoughts are we at least produce a short list of things we think are relevant (largely completed) and worth having a basic stance on. MarkG suggested we perhaps just make a preamble of the policies which relate to agriculture but fall under different categories, and then tie in anything which can only fit under agriculture.
This way we should be able to keep the time and resources spent on this to a minimum, given most of it will be a rehash of existing policies with a few new ones thrown in. It should take only 2 WG meetings tops to write up something basic. We can then expand it in future as more pirates want to get involved. I think it’s useful to have something minimal to show we’re interested in farming/agriculture policy and want to hear more from (potential) pirates in these areas.
The only issue here will be incorporating evidence and citations to support any additional policy in this area. Not insurmountable though.
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All these Policy Working Groups! It’s going to be a busy year for the Pirate Party!
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Yes definitely.
As a starting point, the present group should probably commit to not starting WG activity until group membership achieves at least better than token diversity.
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Fine with me. Won’t commence policy making until recruiting is done we have enough people in a position to present the side from a first-hand minority perspective.
You’ll receive a summary of current members in the next week as part of a scheduled audit, anyone not on the list can be added by asking the NC to add them to the PDC. (give me a poke on chat/email if you get stuck)
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Putting the diversity working group on hold until there is more diversity is fine. Probably a good idea given there are people working on multiple working groups which means there’ll have to be some prioritising anyway.
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Leadership comes to those who deserve it when they want it least but swarmwise model suggests everyone is a leader for the things they are passionate about. The things which I think motivate you are having a platform of professional, community developed, evidence based policies and that’s one of our greatest hidden strengths as a party and a movement.
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Well I don’t know if it’s “old hold” us such, it’s still active - but stays in the recruiting stage until it is more diverse before moving on to actual Policy development.
I completely agree. The issue is more that I’m not from a regional or rural area, so I’m not in touch with the details surrounding their local issues. Nor do I have much expertise in the area, or significant time outside of uni holidays to do required research.
The main things which got me interested are a bunch of documentaries e.g. I watched a few years back on environmental rehabilitation, permanent culture as well as industrial hemp. A good example in the Australian context is Peter Andrews and his Natural Sequence Farming. There’s several old Australia Story episodes somewhere under “Right as Rain” and “Of Droughts and Flooding Rains” online.
I also have an interest in the absolute rort going on in water rights and the related economic rents. 4 Corners completely confirmed all of my suspicions that the sector has been completely captured and taken over by rentiers and speculators, at the cost of communities and the environment.
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What if we put together a draft policy over the next 6 months, then someone with a few weeks of leave who really loves road trips tours through rural QLD/NSW/Vic talking to landowners? Heck I might be down for that.
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Now that would be cool (and an excellent idea), and good promotion for the PPAU.
Switch me from diversity to electoral systems please.
(Gingers don’t generally count as a disadvantaged minority.)
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Only a ginger can call another ginger ginger.
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Noooooo don’t go
Ginger Policy is hilarious
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