Minutes/National Council/2021-07-22

National Council meeting for July 22nd 2021

Agenda

 * Previous meeting's minutes
 * http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-07-01
 * Appoint Alex as Returning Officer for Congress
 * Office-bearer Congress Reports
 * Other Congress organisation
 * General Business

Start: 20:42 End: 22:24

Attendance

 * Alex Jago
 * Dave Kennedy
 * John August
 * Fred Gerner
 * Brandon Selic (chair)
 * Miles Whiticker


 * Bryn Busai (DRC)
 * Roger Whatling (member)
 * Liam Pomfret (DRC; from 21:30)

Previous Meeting Minutes

 * http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-07-01

Returning Officer

 * Our by-laws stipulate an RO for preselection but not for Congress
 * to avoid doubt Alex would like the NC to declare him RO for Congress
 * (this reflects that he is the IEWG nowadays)

Congress Reports

 * John's lack of IB4B online access a continuing bugbear
 * Alex to send him some CSVs


 * Alex's draft report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KVujgHSNUnF9vKljD3wjj4QXRKcTeMgx1mkj3fSwge4/edit?usp=sharing


 * Miles: "As is tradition I won't publish a draft"


 * Other Councillors welcome to put reports if they desire


 * Alex recalls that Congress used to have a motion to waive the auditor's report requirement, but also that it was put as a floor motion.
 * TODO: Investigate 2013-2015 minutes

Congress General

 * Mandrke once again our Stream Master
 * Ideal to stream to multiple platforms but we weren't previously sure of how to do it
 * Mandrke was considering an external service
 * "Everyone who uses these other platforms also uses YouTube, it's fine" - DK
 * "Now is not the time to get experimental" - MW
 * "Besides, the biggest production quality improvement we can make right now is to move beyond just capturing the Jitsi stream" - MW


 * Guest speakers for congress (Miles)
 * Miles is inviting people to give 30 minute presentations:
 * AndrewD has offered to give a crypto speech (30min)
 * Sex worker
 * Activist and photojournalist
 * Other NC members invited to look for people
 * "Where do I schedule them?" - AJ
 * "Some each day?"
 * "End of Sunday to keep people motivated?"
 * "My preference would be for external speakers only" - AJ


 * Misc congress planning (Miles/Alex)
 * Social media promotion TODO, etc

General Business

 * Federal Election call for candidates and volunteers (John/Miles)
 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/candidates-volunteers


 * Proposal/update on Federal election joint campaigning (Miles)
 * Ed Carroll from the Progressives generally keen for joint campaigns
 * Science, Secular, Flux also friendly
 * "Hard to bring Science to the table given we're dereg'd"
 * Joint tickets and cross-campaigning an option
 * Running as "independents" also an option


 * Much discussion on the relative merits of inter-party negotiation processes
 * Party-wide preference order and preselection as normal
 * Alex plans a Congress motion to proactively authorise the NC for joint ticket negotiation
 * Liam proposes changing procedure to say "authorise the NC to make binding deals"
 * (perhaps binding deals with Top N other parties)
 * Miles and Brandon to start *prelim* negotiations and bring what they've got to Congress
 * TODO: prefs poll two weeks after Congress, with all registered and any likely-registered parties
 * Could have an approval phase on the other parties saying "pre-approve a deal or not"
 * Dave: "we can do whatever prelim negotiations we like, pending ratification"
 * Alex: "OK, I'm putting two motions to Congress. One for the new cooperation types, one for pre-authing deals with top N parties"
 * met with general agreement, CFV pending


 * John's Covid Speech
 * good draft so far
 * Revision and CFV to follow: https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/john-covid-speech-july-2021

Motions

 * MOTION: accept the minutes of the previous meeting on July 1st as presented.
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 5 (DK, AJ, BS, FG, JA)
 * Motion carried 20:45


 * MOTION: declare Alex Jago as the Returning Officer for National Congress 2021.
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 5 (DK, AJ, BS, FG, JA)
 * Motion carried 20:51


 * MOTION: that Miles and Brandon commence research and negotiations with aligned political parties for potential campaign deals in the upcoming Federal Election potentially including preference swaps, joint tickets and volunteer swaps
 * Put by: Brandon Selic
 * Ayes 6 (MW, BS, AJ, JA, DK, FG)
 * Motion carried 22:15


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: Brandon Selic
 * Ayes 6 (MW, BS, AJ, JA, DK, FG)
 * Motion carried 22:24

Action Items

 * CFVs for joint tickets and preauth
 * CFV for John's Covid speech
 * Alex to get transaction spreadsheets for John
 * Check old Congress minutes for skip-audit motion
 * Congress!