Minutes/National Council/2020-08-04

National Council Meeting Tuesday 4th August

Opened at 20:35; closed at 21:42.

Agenda

 * Previous meeting minutes: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2020-07-21 (Previous NC)
 * Handover (Miles + Alex)
 * Acting deputy treasurer delegation (Miles)
 * For noting: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Standards/National_Council/Standing_Orders
 * Voting (Alex) (As in, post Congress voting)
 * By-elections for Dep T + S (Alex + Miles)
 * Congress announcement email (Alex)
 * https://emailpad.pirateparty.org.au/load/congress-2020-voting
 * Future NC meetings - date, time (Miles)
 * General business

Attendance

 * Miles Whiticker, President
 * Alex Jago, Secretary
 * John August, Treasurer
 * Phillip "Parduss" Richards, Councillor
 * Fred Gerner, Councillor
 * Brandon Selic, Deputy President (from 20:50)
 * David "twisty" Read, outgoing Councillor
 * Bryn "mandrke" Busai, DRC
 * maus (member) (from 21:07)

Apologies


 * Dave Kennedy (Councillor)

Previous meeting

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2020-07-21
 * Approved, See motions

Handover

 * PR and FG set up with email accounts, JA never lost his.
 * Miles invites someone to consider acting as Deputy Secretary/Treasurer
 * Miles goes over day to day NC: responsible for approving press releases and media. NC is the first and last point of call for things.
 * Miles: "I would like to have something going out every fortnight"
 * Note: PRs and graphics have a two-NC approval rule.
 * Alex describes AEC authorisation requirements
 * Miles describes PiratePad and EmailPad details
 * Quick overview of the press release process
 * see https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Press_Release_Guide
 * Standing orders do exist; see https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Standards/National_Council/Standing_Orders
 * Fred pointed at the PPAU GitHub
 * Everyone pointed at the Discussion Forum
 * Alex to coordinate with John about Public Officer and Treasury things

Post Congress voting

 * Start at 00:01 Wednesday
 * Close at least a week later, suggest 23:59 Sat 14th.
 * Ready to go

By-elections

 * "21 days from the date of resignation" best matches "21 days after Congress"
 * By-election meeting then set for Sunday 16th
 * Nominations open ASAP and close at start of the meeting

Future NC meetings

 * past two years have had 20:30 AEST/AEDT (always 8:30pm Sydney time)
 * Thursday nights also acceptable

General Business

 * John notes recent achievements
 * UBI article is back up: https://www.neweconomy.org.au/journal/issues/vol2/iss3/the-case-for-a-guaranteed-basic-income/
 * Giving a talk on IP at Syd Mechanics' School of Arts: https://smsa.org.au/events/event/intellectual-property-john-august/
 * Got in touch with Clive. He's waiting on more energy in the party before he'll stand again

Motions

 * MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous NC meeting on July 21st as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2020-07-21
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes: (AJ, MW, DR, BS); Nay 0; Abstain 2 (FG, PR)


 * MOTION: Change NC meetings to Thursday nights at 20:30 Sydney time, with the next meeting being 20th August.
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes: 6 (AJ, MW, PR. FG, JA, BS)
 * Motion carried 21:32


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes: 6 (MW, AJ, FG, BS, PR, JA)
 * Motion carried 21:42; meeting closed