Pirate Party Australia

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Pirate Party Australia
Party leader	Simon Frew
Secretary General	Daniel Judge
founding	Established in 2008 Registered on January 17th, 2013
Alignment	Pirate Policy , Copyright and Patent Reform
Colours)	Black  and blue 
Number of members	approx. 1,300 (2015)
Website	pirateparty.org.au/

The Pirate Party Australia ( PPAU ) is a party in Australia , which in 2008 modeled on the Swedish Piratpartiet and other Pirate Parties was established. She sets her political priorities in the areas of copyright reform, freedom of the Internet and the fight against Internet censorship as well as the reform of patent law .

The party currently has around 1,300 members. In January 2013 the party was officially registered at the federal level. She runs for the 2013 parliamentary elections with eight candidates in four provinces.

The party was a founding member of Pirate Parties International , but left the organization in February 2015.

elections

The PPAU first ran candidates in the 2012 elections to the parliament of the Australian capital territory . A pirate ran for election in all three electoral constituencies. A system of transferable individual voting was used for voting . The PPAU candidates accounted for between 0.42% and 0.49% of the initial preferences.

organization

The board elected in 2012 consists of seven people:

• David Campbell - President
• Simon Frew - Vice President
• Brendan Molloy - General Secretary
• Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer - Deputy Secretary General
• Rodney Serkowski - Treasurer
• Sam Kearns - Assistant Treasurer
• Glen Takkenberg - "Party Agent"

The party's first president was David Crafti. He was replaced by Rodney Serkowski in July 2010. In 2012 David Campbell was elected President.

A regional organization ( state branch ) currently only exists in the Australian Capital Territory . This has about 100 members.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PPAU FAQ ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Josh Taylor: Pirate Party Australia focuses on Senate for federal election. In: ZDNet . January 21, 2013, accessed January 23, 2013 . 
3. ^ Senate Candidates for 2013 Federal Election. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 13, 2013 ; accessed on August 14, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ http://lists.pirateweb.net/pipermail/pp.international.general/2015-February/015834.html
5. ↑ Official final result (English) ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Pirate Party Australia (ACT Branch) misses out on registration as a political party for 2012 ACT election. (No longer available online.) Australian Capital Territory Electoral Commission, July 17, 2012, archived from the original on February 5, 2013 ; accessed on November 27, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.