Minutes/National Council/2021-10-03

Special National Council Meeting 3rd October 2021 Scheduled start time: 1800 AEDT

Attendees

 * Miles Whiticker (Chair)
 * Andrew Downing
 * Mitchell Curnoe
 * Roger Whatling
 * John August
 * Fred Gerner


 * Alex Jago (Minutes)

Members

 * Big Money Matt
 * "Star_Tube" James
 * varno
 * zach__
 * milspec

(Science exec invited to participate/observe electoral campaign planning)

Agenda
Phonebanking status (Alex)

Party account status (John/Alex/Mitch)

Initial campaign prep (Miles/everyone) Candidates: Brandon, Roger, John, Dave Seek more candidates? Campaign policy focus Joint campaign with other parties

Network negotiations general discussion (Everyone)

Date and timeline of ENC (Miles/Alex) 42 days notice Sat 1st to Nov 13th 28 days deadline on CAPs 7 days deadline on PAMs (agenda finalised)

CAPs briefing (Miles/Alex)

PAMs briefing (Andrew)

Community meeting (Miles) Call for candidates and volunteers Merger negotiations update Poll of members General strategy for recruitment and growth

Minutes
Miles thanks everyone for attendance, it's been a crazy few weeks. Ironically, things get more straightforward come the election proper! There's been a lot of "survive" work that we need to get to before we can "thrive".

Phonebanking status

 * Call lists now going out
 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/ppau_phonebanking_2020
 * Todo: update recent activity

Initial Campaign Prep

 * It's time to start preselection processes
 * John, Dave, Brandon all willing to stand
 * With the merger we obviously share tickets, so don't need so many candidates
 * Expect Secular and Vote Planet in Victoria, Science leading in NSW, Pirates leading in Qld
 * Unclear yet as to whether the broader coalition will also do ticket-sharing
 * 2019 we had a bunch of digital events
 * Logistics troubles last time (Flyers/Tshirts/Corflutes)
 * need people on the ground to coordinate logistics, at least in each capital
 * so let's just have orders in for a month out
 * Media: there's often meet-the-candidate events and smaller media
 * Prepolling critical too

Network negotiations general discussion

 * Two streams of discussion now: merger for some of the smaller parties, cooperation for the larger and remaining parties
 * Lots of immediate WIP for the merger
 * General avoidance of toe-stepping for the cooperation
 * Some parties still unclear
 * James asks about setting up concerted socialisation efforts

ENC date and timeline

 * Other than the Fair Trading CAPs (see below) we will likely need to do a number of CAPs to support the merger
 * November 20th-21st now the earliest possible weekend
 * Issues around handling member data
 * Specify that member data is exclusively available to the Registered Officer of the merged entity for the purposes of AEC registration
 * Specify that we won't seek separate registration while affiliated

CAPs briefing

 * Miles is proposing to lodge a number of CAPs to bring us into better alignment with NSW Fair Trading things
 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/r.57fcbfc3babace002b25ecbd7e92653f
 * Specify that Treasurer and Dep T get bank access
 * Specify that CAPs are Special Resolutions
 * Change post-Congress CAP voting to be en banc
 * Fair Trading vastly prefers
 * Specify that proxy voting is disallowed
 * Clarify the Public Officer and authorised signatories
 * Clarify Returning Officer things
 * Clarify management commitee and party register things
 * Clarify members not liable for party debts
 * Some funding transparency updates


 * varno raises a concern that CAPs get about 90% approval, but this could be potentially multiplicative across multiple CAPs
 * AndrewD proposes replacing the en banc CAP voting with a meta-question: "do you agree to go with the majority decision on the CAPs put at this Congress, and adopt the resulting Constitution as amended by those successful CAPs"

PAMs briefing

 * Andrew: we have a list of working groups, not a lot of progress thus far
 * Andrew will be spending this week going through the Science Party policies and figuring out what they cover but we don't
 * Also some privacy things
 * Looking at about 6 motions, none expected to be particularly controversial at this point

Community Meeting

 * A specified date and time for members who aren't regularly active to jump in and do things
 * Update on merger negotiations including CAP bits
 * Call for candidates and details on what that's like
 * Opinion poll on party direction
 * Recruitment strategy discussion
 * Proposed time: before Social Fridays on October 15th

Motions

 * MOTION: that the Pirate Party holds an online extraordinary national congress and policy meeting on 20/11/2021 and 21/11/2021
 * Ayes 7 (John August, Roger Whatling, Fred Gerner, Mitchell Curnoe, Andrew Downing, Miles Whiticker, Alex Jago)
 * Carried unanimously at 19:11 AEDT


 * MOTION: hold an online community meeting 15th October 2021
 * Carried unanimously at 19:16 AEDT


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Carried unanimously, meeting closed at 19:48 AEDT