Minutes/National Council/2012-10-17

Agenda

 * Ratify previous meeting's minutes http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2012-10-02 - Mozart
 * Registration process - Brendan
 * FOI statuses - Brendan
 * Banking Update - Rodney (Treasurer Absent)
 * auIGF Update - Brendan, Glen
 * TPP - Brendan Next Meeting
 * Private MP Meeting Update - Rodney, Brendan Held over for a later time
 * NatSec Breakdown - Simon
 * Wtf PirateTimes article - Brendan
 * Removing PP-Leaders from enquiries@ - Mozart
 * Offer of advertising support next year - Glen
 * Privacy Breach Disclosure Discussion Paper - Simon
 * Independent/non-federal candidates - Mozart

Attendance

 * David campbell
 * Simon Frew
 * Brendan Molloy
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
 * Glen Takkenberg

Start: 20:15 AEST

Finish: 21:58 AEST

Registration process update

 * ~ 500 members are currently new, updated or confirmed.
 * A 3rd e-mail will be sent out to those who have yet to respond, and NC and selected representatives will begin contacting contacting members after 24 hours has elapsed.
 * Planned date of submission to the AEC is Monday.

Freedom of Information request update

 * Brendan's FoI request has been delayed until 22nd October.
 * No decision made on Part A or B; scope still being defined.
 * Rodney is looking for options to appeal his FoI request.

auIGF update

 * Other attendees were happy PPAU was more moderate than expected.
 * Many groups had much more radical thoughts on copyright.
 * Adam (devdsp) spoke on the Privacy panel.
 * Networked with other lawyers, lobbyists, ACCAN, ISOC-AU, Internet NZ etc.

TPP

 * Brendan will attend the December TPP meeting in Auckland; David Campbell will attempt to attend also.

National Security Inquiry Breakdown

 * Attorney General's Department disclosed their submission.
 * Senator Ludlam grilled AFP and ASIO, with the former being the most revealing.
 * AGD's sole method of punishing failure to decrypt is a 2 year gaol sentence.
 * AFP's definition of metadata includes IP addresses, not URLs.of the sites you visit.

Pirate Times article

 * Pirate Times has an article on the ACT elections with inaccuracies. (http://piratetimes.net/pirate-party-in-act-elections/)

Removing PP-Leaders from enquiries@

 * PP-leaders needs to have the subscription address changed.
 * There is no unsubscribe link, nor is the list publicly accessible.

Offer of advertising support next year

 * Offer of advertising support for 2013.
 * Interested. Glen to find out costs

Privacy Breach Disclosure Discussion Paper.

 * http://www.ag.gov.au/Consultationsreformsandreviews/Pages/Australian-Privacy-Breach-Notification.aspx
 * Questions are reasonable.

Independent/non-federal candidates

 * Local government election candidates should be handled by a state party, if it exists.
 * Endorsement decided on a case by case basis.
 * Federal party does not have the resources to oversee local candidates, nor knowledge of specific regional issues.
 * Candidates can run as independent pirates, following our platform.

Motions

 * Motion: To Ratify previous meetings minutes.
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.


 * Motion: add Thomas Rundle to RWG.
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.


 * Motion: Daniel Judge and Thomas Rundle given access to non-respondant membership records at the discretion of the Secretary.
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.


 * Motion: the NC endorses the following statement: "Endorsement for local elections is a matter for state and territory parties, and is not a matter for the federal party or National Council. If there is no state party, there cannot be any endorsement.
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

Action Items

 * NC to call members (who have not responded) from Friday onwards.