Minutes/National Council/2021-09-30

National Council Meeting 30th September 2021 Scheduled start time: 20:30 AEST

National Council

 * Alex Jago
 * Brandon Selic
 * Roger Whatling
 * Miles Whiticker
 * John August
 * Dave "Satch" Kennedy
 * Fred Gerner
 * Andrew Downing
 * Mitchel Curnoe

Members and Observers

 * Bryn "Mandrke" Busai
 * milspec (from 20:55)
 * Star_Tube (from 20:55)

Guests

 * Woden's Day (US Pirates)

Agenda

 * Call to order
 * Formally welcome guests (Science/Secular/VotePlanet/USPP)
 * Previous minutes (Alex)

General items (reports, announcements, upcoming events etc)


 * Membership update (Alex)
 * Member phonebanking campaign


 * Upcoming PDC meetings... Thurs 7th (foreign policy), Sun 10th (general committee) (Andrew/Mitch)


 * PPUS livestream report back (Miles)


 * Reddit AMA reportback (Miles/John/Andrew)


 * Followup questions: John's have been posted, Brandon are WIP, Tania ??


 * Bilateral outreach reports (Roger/Brandon/Andrew/Dave)


 * Community meeting in the next month (Miles)
 * Merger/affiliation negotiations status
 * Final final final call for election candidates and volunteers
 * General strategy discussion


 * Emergency National Congress November 13th/14th (Miles/Alex)
 * Merger and/or affiliation
 * NSW Fair Trading CAPs
 * Midyear policy meeting
 * Candidate endorsement?

Action Items (medium/high priority, decisions required)


 * PPI report presentation (Miles)
 * Drew poll response (MIles)

Discussion Items (low priority, no decisions required)


 * Volunteer code of conduct (Miles)
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/User:Miles_w/coc_2021
 * Network meeting report back (Miles/Alex/Roger/Andrew)
 * Any other business (everyone)

Previous Minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-09-16
 * See motions

Membership update & phone banking

 * Outflow currently exceeds inflow, because people forget to renew
 * Brandon, Fred, Miles, Mitch, Andrew volunteer, thank you
 * Alex details process: "Just give me hard no's and I'll mark them as post-hoc resignation"

PDC and Foreign meeting upcoming

 * it's happening .gif
 * PDC: Next Thursday 7th
 * Working group leaders encouraged to have something ready to present
 * Foreign Policy: Sunday 10th
 * Mitch and JayS leading

PPAU/USPP report back

 * Not many viewers but Miles was happy with it
 * "I haven't actually done any public speaking about US/Australia for *ages*"
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQO4wlTEtZI when it's uploaded
 * Unfortunately Rose Klein couldn't make it but Mitch Davilo did
 * Thanks to people who gave conversational pointers

/r/technology AMA

 * Still pinned!
 * Solid promo and interest and best of all it cost us $0
 * Thanks to John, Brandon and Tania for participating and John for answering followups
 * John and Brandon think it went well
 * Brandon to answer his followups tomorrow
 * /r/AustralianPolitics up next
 * Andrew: the brains trust in the back end was a great example of organisation

Bilateral outreach reports

 * John August (Secular Party): positive to neutral response
 * AndrewD also reached out to Ian to invite him along to Fridays, but no response
 * John to follow up
 * Fred Gerner (Science Party): Zahar's keen to come along to 3 Drunk Pirates, so that's nice
 * Brandon has spoken to Drew W
 * Miles: "I have been fighting hard to make it clear that Pirate identity will continue despite any merger. We have a place here and globally."

Community meeting

 * Miles: "I want to hold an informal full-party assembly. Updates, discussions, informal polling, strategy discussions, feedback, apprehension corrections."
 * In particular: status negotiation, another call for candidates, and a strategy discussion
 * We don't have a star/lead candidate per se, but Brandon, John, Roger, Dave all willing

Extraordinary National Congress

 * A number of things need an extraordinary National Congress, in particular the CAPs that we'll need to make Fair Trading happy and for merger things
 * "The most successful Pirate Parties in Europe are all part of coalitions"
 * Earliest possible date 13th/14th November if we get notice out on Saturday October 2nd
 * Yes, it will be on a weekend, don't panic
 * Timing trickiness
 * need 28 days' notice for proposals, so we need to be sure
 * and of course 42 days notice overall
 * Expect a CFV in the next week or so
 * Also a Policy Meeting
 * Some preselection also to occur here: we should be ready to go despite anything

PPI Report Presentation

 * Mitch has been looking at PPI, they're above-board financially
 * Jay Stephens has been talking to their Board, happy that they've resolved their previous issues
 * IR Cttee will continue to engage and send Observer-level delegates to their upcoming meetings

Drew W poll response

 * Miles disagrees with the premise and validity of the poll
 * Andrew raises that the view of the NC will be what gets put to the members
 * "Let's just not assume this is a representation of the members, because it isn't"

Volunteer Code of Conduct

 * See https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/User:Miles_w/coc_2021
 * For consideration at this point, not (yet) adoption
 * "Can we call it the Pirate Code" - Andrew
 * "Done, but it's more a set of guidelines" - Miles

Motions

 * MOTION: accept minutes from previous meeting.
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Carried unanimously at 20:35


 * MOTION: transmute the meeting to the cross-party meeting.
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Carried unanimously at 21:30