Minutes/National Council/2012-11-27

Agenda

 * Accept Meeting Minutes of last meeting
 * Change of NC meeting schedule - Brendan
 * Never ending non answers from DFAT - Brendan
 * Registration Update - Brendan
 * Banking Update (if Rod present)
 * Quorum by-law - Brendan
 * Copyright Review - Mozart
 * FOI Review - Brendan
 * Pharma Review - Brendan
 * Enquiries - Mozart
 * Press Officer - Mozart

Attendance

 * Brendan Molloy
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
 * David Campbell
 * Simon Frew
 * Sam Kearns (Minutes)

Start: 20:35 AEST

Finish: 21:17 AEST

Accept Meeting Minutes of last meeting.

 * Mozart makes a few corrections (Typos)
 * Move on to next motion while Mozart makes corrections
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2012-11-13

Change of NC meeting schedule

 * Brendan wants to move NC meetings to be the evening after General meetings.
 * General agreement from all present

Latest Response from DFAT (Never ending non answers from DFAT)

 * Brendan expresses general frustration with latest response from DFAT to our questions regarding TPP negotiations
 * Brendan suggests that he and Roderick will arrange a meeting in person with DFAT

Registration Update

 * Nothing to report as AEC has not replied to email from Brendan.
 * Brendan will phone them tomorrow.

Banking Update

 * Rod not present, passed over.

Quorum by-law

 * A new By Law regarding quorum requirements is presented by Roderick (via email)
 * General agreement that it looks good and is clear cut
 * Motion carried, see below
 * By law will be known as 2012-01
 * By law should be published prominently on the wiki
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/By-laws#By-law_2012-01

Copyright Review

 * Work is ongoing with plan to submit this Friday

Freedom of Information Review and Pharma Review

 * FOI Rev due Dec 7
 * Pharma review due January
 * We need more lawyers
 * Need people to look into departmental audit reports (re FOI's)

Enquiries

 * Mozart makes reminder to check RT regularly for new enquiries and suggests we need to increase our turn around time
 * David suggests that we should receive email notification of new enquiries

Press Officer

 * Mozart suggests we find a new person for this role
 * Mozart motions: that the position of Press Officer be advertised as available, and that until someone more skilled than Mozart comes along, Mozart will retain the position.
 * Brendan says no motion is necessary to advertise the position
 * Mozart Action Item: make Press Officer an available position

Other Business

 * Brendan announces that the AGD is sending him the classification database on a USB stick in response to his FOI request

Motions

 * Motion: Accept Minutes of 13 November, 2012 NC meeting.
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.


 * Motion: move meeting to Wednesday night 8pm, after the General Meeting.
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.


 * Motion: accept the proposed quorum by-law.
 * 6 ayes. (Rodney via prior written vote)
 * Motion passes.


 * Motion: Close meeting 
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

Action Items

 * Mozart to make Press Officer an available position