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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...
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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...
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Jimmy Wales Advises Pirates to Change their Name to “Internet Party”
Recently the Internet Party of New Zealand, founded by Kim Dotcom, has been attracting interest in the online world. Although it has not yet published its full manifesto, it is easy to see that the...
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Kim Dotcom’s Internet Party Joins Electoral Alliance in New Zealand
On 27 May 2014 the Internet Party of New Zealand joined with the left wing MANA Movement to form an alliance that will fight the New Zealand elections in September 2014. The new party will be called...
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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...
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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...
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RoadTrip with Kim Dotcom | The Internet Party
Last year the New Zealand Pirates half expected Kim Dotcom to take over the Pirate Party of New Zealand when he first declared that he would move into politics. The common ground of internet politics...
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The Pirates of New Zealand Elect a New Board
Following hard on the heels of Iceland and Finland, the honorary Nordic country in the south Pacific – New Zealand – has elected a new executive council. After a year of declining membership and a...
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New Zealand’s Election Results
For many in New Zealand and overseas the Internet Party was the “stand-in” for the ailing Pirate Party of New Zealand. It shared many policies with the international Pirate Movement in the areas of...
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Court Rules Blocking TPB Ineffective: PPAU Crowdfund Translation
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...
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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...
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PPAU delivers application to PPI Court of Arbitration
On Friday 19 December 2014, Pirate Party Australia (PPAU) submitted a formal application to the Pirate Parties International (PPI) Court of Arbitration relating to future affiliation fees of PPI. A...
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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...
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