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Australian Pirates Run For The Federal Elections
Pirate Party of Australia (PPAU) is one of the oldest pirate parties in the world. It was founded in 2008 it has extended its policies from the traditional pirate platform. Today the party has more than 1.300 members. The coming month,…
Pirate Party Australia Raises Funds Playing Counterstrike
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…
Pirate Party Australia Achieves 0.89% in Canning
The Canning federal by-election was held on Saturday. Michelle Allen was a candidate for the Pirate Party of Australia in the elections. Receiving 0.89% of the votes it was a good first appearance by a pirate party candidate in this…
2014: An Eventful Year for Pirate Party Australia
The Pirate Party of Australia had a very busy year. With the start of a new year, Pirate Times takes a look at some of the highlights (and lowlights) of the Pirate Party’s year Down Under. Griffith and Western Australian elections…
PPAU Translates Landmark Pirate Bay Case
In late August 2014 I was working on a submission to the Australian Government’s Online Copyright Infringement discussion paper. The Government was canvassing new measures to “tackle” the “problem” of online copyright infringement, and this was one of many opportunities for the…
Court Rules Blocking TPB Ineffective: PPAU Crowdfund Translation
Update: the translated ruling is now available for dowload (pdf). Earlier this year, a Dutch Court ruled that not only was blocking the Pirate Bay ineffective, BitTorrent traffic in the Netherlands had actually increased since the Pirate Bay was blocked. The Court decided…
PPAU Congress: Unhappy with PPI – will they form 5 Eye Patches?
The Australian Pirates are paragons of democracy. Following their general assembly in Brisbane on 19-20 July 2014 we had to wait for the results until now, as all Australian Pirates can vote on motions and candidates whether they attend the physical…
Pirate Party of Australia Congress in Brisbane
In the coming weekend of 19-20 July 2014 the Australian Pirates will be holding their annual congress in the city of Brisbane. They will be electing a national board and voting on policy and statutes. Due to the large size…
A German Pirate Meets Pirates Downunder
Pirate Times adminstrator and member of the Pirate Party of Germany, Gefion Thürmer, travelled to Australia recently and wrote about her meeting with the Pirate Party there. What follows is a loose translation of her article in our German language…
Meet the Pirates Contesting the Western Australian Senate
Due to the loss of a large number of votes by the Australian electoral commission the election for the Senate representatives for Western Australia must be held again. There are 77 political hopefuls on the candidate lists and two of…
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