Pirate Party Australia Raises Funds Playing Counterstrike January 3, 2016 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News During the last Canning By-election the Pirate Party Australia (PPAU) was challenged to a Counter-Strike Global Offensive tournament. The challenge came from a sub-forum to Reddit called Circlejerk Australia and was intended as a way to give PPAU an opportunity to raise funds. However the Pirates were too busy campaigning to take them up on the challenge during the elections and planning for the challenge took place recently instead. The funds were raised through crowdfunding at pozible until the end of the year. 11 supporters contributed ~400 Euros and surpassed the 329 Euro goal. Live-streaming …

PPI Agrees to Support the Snowden Treaty October 12, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News At the Pirate Parties International board meeting, board member Henrique Peer announced he had been approached by David Miranda, who asked the organisation to participate in the Snowden Treaty project. Miranda is the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, a long-time critic… Surveillance Hangs Heavy Over Vienna August 18, 2015 · by Guest Author · in Pirate Topic This article is a guest post from Rodney Yancey, who translated an article originally from Telepolis. Privacy groups in Austria are gearing up. Austria is a small country in the EU, but privacy concerns are …