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Leader's Report 2016: A year of reflection, change and success
Posted by James Jansson · December 04, 2016 4:58 PM
You can also read this as a PDF.
Introduction
North Sydney By-Election
Changing name to the Science Party
Federal Election 2016
Luke James - Melbourne City Council Elections
Reports
Voting changes submissions
NSW Branch
NSW Branch Leader - Andrea Leong
Inaugural NSW Branch Meeting
NSW Branch Goal December 2016: 100 members
NSW Branch Goal December 2017 goal: 750 members -
Science Party AGM 2016 Minutes
Posted by James Jansson · December 04, 2016 3:49 PM
Date: November 24, 2016
Meeting Opened at 6:43pm
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Video of the AGM
Treasurer's report
Leader's reportNote that both reports were accepted in their verbal form.
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The Greens finally re-adopt Science Party's dank drugs policy
Posted by James Jansson · November 27, 2016 4:03 PM
The Greens have finally reversed their blanket opposition to deciminalisation and legalisation of drugs. Decriminalisation of drugs has been a Science Party policy since 2013 when we formed.
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Is your sugar tax policy based in evidence?
Posted by James Jansson · November 23, 2016 11:27 AM
The Grattan Institute published a report yesterday that outlines the massive cost of obesity and suggest a soft-drink tax to combat it. The Greens have a policy that endorses the proposal, and it has been tried elsewhere in the world. But will it work?
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The firm that audited the NSW election also donated $123,528 to the Liberals
Posted by James Jansson · October 04, 2016 8:00 AM
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) fashions itself as an independent auditor of choice, but with PWC donating $123,528 to the Liberal Party (‘Big four accounting firms political donations rise’, AFR), independence cannot be assured. This is particularly concerning, as PWC was responsible for the independent audit of the electronic voting system used in the 2015 NSW election.
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Submission to the Inquiry into the 2016 Census
Posted by Andrea Leong · September 21, 2016 10:12 PM
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Submission to the Inquiry into the 2016 Census (PDF, 122 KB, 21 September 2016)The Science Party cares about the right to privacy as well as good data collection. The 2016 Census threatened both of these ideals with the introduction of dataset matching, leaving respondents vulnerable to having their data re-identified. Download our submission to the Inquiry into the 2016 Census above and see all of our blog posts on the subject.
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Submission to the 2016 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap Capability Issues Paper
Posted by Andrea Leong · September 09, 2016 7:49 PM
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Submission to the 2016 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap Capability Issues Paper (PDF, 333 KB, 9 September 2016)The Science Party responded to the call for submissions to the 2016 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap Capability Issues Paper. The Roadmap is a periodical initiative of the Office of the Chief Scientist that aims to identify research infrastructure priorities.
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Restore census anonymity
Posted by Andrea Leong · August 19, 2016 6:05 PM
In 2016, the Australian census was much more intrusive than in previous years. Although not put in place by legislation, we think this deserves a place in the Repeal Watch. The Science Party will destroy all personally-identifying information collected by the census.
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Turnbull 'Angry' at ABS when he should be angry at himself
Posted by James Jansson · August 11, 2016 10:09 AM
Cuts to the ABS, a failure to appoint a new head statistician in a timely manner and ministers playing musical chairs are partly to blame for the Census failure.
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Census DDoS: if it is true, show us the statistics
Posted by James Jansson · August 10, 2016 5:15 PM
OPINION
Update: the ABC this afternoon is reporting this timeline as the official sequence of events. More information, e.g. about the precise volume of hits, would be better but it is good to see more transparency around the census.
Last night, the online Census went down, and most people were unable to fill out their forms. The ABS claims that it was DDoSed. That means that it received lots of requests from computers all at once that took the service offline.