Minutes/National Council/2020-10-29

National Council meeting 29th October 2020

20:30 Sydney time. Meeting

Attendance

 * Miles
 * Parduss
 * Pip
 * Davidi
 * Fred
 * John
 * Alex

Opened 8PM AEST (21:00 AEDT)

Minutes
QLD election? thoughts and preferences? The U.S. presidential election is popular, should we have a formal position? (they're both geriatric turdballs IMO) (Adopting a formal position on other countries' political environment, however obvious, seems odd for an Australian party that's not in power - Pip) Aussie Media has been giving a lot of news space to it, so there's that. Oddly, many Australians seem more interested in US politics than our own.

Audit update

 * Extension gifted due to Groom by-election
 * Phone banking: still todo
 * Miles to take the lead
 * Holding steady presently re member numbers, but need more

Banning Dirty Donations submission

 * see https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/larissa-waters-banning-dirty-donations-bill/2939/4
 * Pip F to take the lead

Remix This comp

 * video stream issues thanks to Miles' internet connection
 * re-recorded and edited and uploaded by Miles
 * got some good responses
 * submissions open November 7th, for a month
 * "I hope it's the good kind of cringe"

JG Debate

 * there's interest!
 * scrambling for a moderator
 * hoping Brian Khuu will do it
 * promoting in various places/groups
 * Test run things to happen earlier that afternoon
 * Mandrke to help with streaming things

Qld election

 * "for the last few weeks [Miles] has been waging a personal war on Qld Labor"
 * this shitposting has resulted in 2000% relevance increase for Miles' page
 * interviews with Ed Caroll (Progressives, but indie) and local Legalise Cannabis candidate
 * context for others: 2017 saw first Greens MP elected,
 * two others came close, same candidates this time with good chance of winning
 * Labor is... unhappy about this
 * Likely chance of minority govt
 * Alex suggests that Labor will look to negotiate with KAP over the Greens

NENA conference

 * John was hoping to give a presentation at the NENA conference, either on IP or UBI
 * incorporating the PPAU point of view
 * "their public persona of 'facilitating activism' apparently doesn't extend to minor party activists"
 * they wanted "John August" not "John August, from PPAU"
 * suffice to say John isn't giving a talk now
 * Further discussion with organisers to be had
 * Miles urges diplomacy

Discord server permissions etc

 * bit of an influx of memers recently
 * Miles: "only I should have the power to ping NC"
 * Alex disagrees vehemently; NC are effectively the mods
 * Alex thinks we might want to swap to Community mode:
 * https://support.discord.com/hc/ko/articles/360047132851-Enabling-Your-Community-Server
 * registered emails a bugbear


 * Any other business

Minutes from the previous meeting

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2020-10-15
 * Ayes: 5 (DK, FG, JA, PR, AJ); Abstain 1 (MW)
 * Carried 21:03 AEDT

Close the meeting

 * passed unanimously, 21:59 AEDT