User:Brendan

= Constitutional Amendment Proposals =

Positions on issues not within platform
Add a new subarticle to Article 4:

4.x Positions on issues outside of Platform


 * 1) No officer, councillor or official of the Party may imply that a private position on issues outside of the scope of the Party principles, platform or policies is the position of the Party.

Enshrine seven day voting period
Add an item to Article 5.1:


 * All officer elections, constitutional amendment proposals, platform amendment proposals and policy amendment proposals that pass a majority vote of those present at the National Congress must be ratified by a majority vote of all Full Members using an online voting system.
 * The voting period must not be less than seven (7) days.

Conflict of Interest Declaration
Add an item to Article 8.1:


 * Candidates for any electable position or appointment within the Party must present a declaration of any potential conflicts of interest prior to the election or appointment taking place.
 * If at any point in the future a conflict arises, the Secretary must be informed as soon as possible.
 * If a candidate has any obligations or commitments to an organisation that breaches any of the defined principles of this Constitution, that candidate is disqualified from holding office within the Party.

Membership Register Access Provisions
TBD

Sponsorship/Joining Organisations
Add an item to Article 5.1:


 * Only the National Congress has the power, by majority vote, to allow or disallow the Party to join, sponsor or be sponsored by any other organisation.

Preselection Meetings
Add a subarticle after Article 5.1:

5.x Preselection Meeting


 * The National Council will organise the Preselection Meeting.
 * A Preselection Meeting may be held where appropriate in the lead up to an election.
 * The Preselection Meeting may be an independent meeting, or may coincide with a National Congress or another meeting.

Replace item 1 of Article 5.2 with:


 * All Members seeking to stand as candidates for election to Federal Parliament must be nominated at a Preselection Meeting and seconded by another member.

Create Article for National Council
Create an Article below Article 3 entitled "National Council".

Add the item to the new Article:


 * Members of the National Council shall be referred to as Councillors.

Move Article 3.5 under new Article, and rename to "Powers".

Rename Article 8 to "Officers, Councillors and Party Officials".

Move Articles 8.2 to 8.8 to a new subarticle entitled "Members" under newly created "National Council" Article.

Amend Article 8.1, Item 2 "a position on the National Council" to "a position on the National Council, working group or committee"

Fix two officer position clause
Replace Article 8.1, item 3 "No more than two officer positions may be filled by one member of the National Council." with:


 * No more than one National Council position may be filled by one member, except until a replacement is appointed.
 * No more than two officer or councillor positions may be filled by one member of the National Council, committees or working groups.

Replace Party Agent position with Registered Officer, Treasurer has duties of Party Agent
Rename Article 8.8 to "Registered Officer".

Replace the first paragraph with:
 * The Registered Officer fulfil the requirements and obligations of the position of the same name defined in the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.

Replace all mentions of "Party Agent" with "Registered Officer" in the second paragraph.

Add the paragraph to Article 8.6.1:
 * The Treasurer will act as Party Agent, so as to fulfil the requirements and obligations of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.
 * The Treasurer will act as Public Officer, as to the fulfil the requirements and obligations of the NSW Associations Incorporation Act 2009.

Create two Councillor Positions on the NC
Add a subarticle to Article 8 (or under "Members" subarticle of "National Council" article if amendment passes):

Councillors without predetermined responsibility


 * 1) Two (2) Councillors will be appointed by election at the National Congress to the National Council.
 * 2) The responsibilities of the Councillors will be determined by the National Council.

National Council Absolute Majority
If National Council Structure motion passes: If it fails:
 * Add the following subarticle to the new "National Council" Article, with the title "Quorum":
 * Add the following subarticle to Article 5 as a paragraph:


 * 1) Unless otherwise provided within this constitution, no question regarding Party business is to be decided or resolved at a meeting of the National Council unless at least five (5) members or two thirds of the National Council are present, whichever number is greater.
 * 2) Voting requirements for majorities are taken to mean the entire membership of the National Council.
 * 3) Quorum may be considered to have been reached where express written consent is given on any particular issue by the member of the National Council.
 * 4) Written consent should be included within the minutes.

Principles
In Part I, replace "inalienable rights of the nation’s citizens and" with "inalienable human rights of all inhabitants of Australia, and".

In Part I, replace "civil liberties and" with "civil liberties, the defence of social equality, and".

(This whole paragraph needs to be replaced: "The Party does not seek to become part of the administration, but a mediator in parliamentary deadlocks, and to provide representation for the emergent information society, to guard the civil liberties of the citizen by utilising this power to further the party agenda, and as such intends to contest Australian Federal Elections in both the House of Representatives and Senate.")

(Add something about ceding sovereignty through treaty, and how we need to restore the ability to make our own laws?)

Membership Levels
TBD

State/Territory Parties
Add a subarticle to Article 2:

State and Territory Branches
 * A State or Territory Branch is considered a subordinate organisation for the purposes of this Constitution.
 * Such branches would exist for the purpose of competing in State or Territory-level elections.
 * The National Council or National Congress may, at its discretion, opt to offer a mandate to form a state or territory branch to the State/Territory Coordinator of the given state/territory.
 * A State or Territory Branch may not contradict a Federal policy, but may expand their policy set beyond the scope of the Federal Party.
 * It is mandatory that members of the Federal Party are members of their local State or Territory Branch, and vice versa.

General Meeting Formalisation
I feel that the fortnightly general meetings need to be enshrined in the constitution. TBD.

Financial Structure amendments for non-banking non-signatory payment structures
Add item below item 3 in Article 6.1:


 * All non-signatory payment accounts (for example, PayPal) of the PPAU will:
 * be held separately from those of its members;
 * move all funds into the bank accounts as soon as feasible; and
 * have all records published annually.