Minutes/National Council/2021-02-04

National Council meeting 4th February 2021

Start: 8:56pm Sydney time

End: 9:38pm Sydney time

Agenda

 * Previous Minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-01-21


 * New IR committee members update (Miles)


 * PPTR solidarity press release (Gabriel Allen)


 * Internal Comms updates (or not) (Alex)


 * Banking updates cont: John has forms signed, hooray (Alex/John)


 * Next federal election timing (Alex)


 * Right to repair press release (John A)


 * Policy Development Committee todos (Miles)
 * Needs to be done before next National Congress: stuff from the previous National Congress
 * Also several members have expressed an interest in developing policy

Attendance

 * Miles Whiticker (President)
 * Alex Jago (Secretary)
 * John August (Treasurer)
 * Fred Gerner (Councillor)
 * Brandon Selic (Dep Pres.)


 * Gabe Allen (Intl Rel)

Right to repair press release

 * John has a writeup in progress: https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/r2r_pr_feb21
 * "Less praise of the government please, they've done actively harmful things on this recently" - Miles
 * Inquiry secretariat will publish our sub sometime soon, Alex hopes
 * Hopefully this PR can go out early next week

International Relations

 * Miles hopes to do onboarding soonish, perhaps next Thursday (11th Feb)
 * Motion to appoint Gabriel

Internal comms update

 * we were looking at smaller-geography (half a city) email lists like the state ones
 * Alex went looking, to implement the nice auto-population thing we'd have to make changes to MemberDB
 * that's an instant too-hard-basket for now

Banking updates cont.

 * John has forms signed, hooray
 * Now on to Mark; fingers crossed

Next federal election timing

 * "There's been a lot of chat suggesting it will be at the end of the year. I concur" - Alex
 * "Consequently if we do manage to maintain rego, we should call for preselection EOIs after Easter"
 * Senate election can't happen until August, so starting at Easter is good time
 * as always, more people to call for rego

PDC things

 * More to do:
 * Some Policy Motions still need to be Platform-ified. Alex's problem.
 * PDC tasked to develop policy on several things
 * TODO: kickstart PDC. Miles proposes three Thursdays from today (25th Feb)

NMBC Miles interview

 * Miles did an interview! https://mitchellsfrontpage.com/miles-whiticker-from-the-pirate-party-on-the-media-bargaining-code/

Bureaucracy panel

 * John is plugging away
 * 13th Feb still possible! Working on that basis.
 * 7pm Sydney time

Motions

 * Motion: Approve minutes of previous NC meeting as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-01-21
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes: 5 (unanimous)
 * Motion carried at 21:27


 * MOTION: appoint Gabriel Allen to the International Relations Committee
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 5 (unanimous)
 * Motion carried at 21:30


 * MOTION: International Committee meeting on the 11th of February, 7pm AEDT
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 5 (unanimous)
 * Motion carried at 21:32


 * MOTION: PDC meeting on the 25th Feb 7pm AEDT
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 5 (unanimous)
 * Motion carried at 21:33


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 5 (unanimous)
 * Meeting closed at 20:38