Minutes/National Council/2022-03-17

National Council meeting 17th March 2022

Start: 9:23pm AEDT

End:  10:33 AEDT

Agenda

 * Previous meeting minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-03-03
 * Correspondence, reports, action items (Secretariat)
 * Discussion items, and motions
 * PPAU to fund qld fusion tshirt order - Miles
 * progress of minimalist campaign concept - JA
 * General business
 * Motion to close the meeting

Attendance

 * Andrew Downing
 * Alex Jago (MINUTES)
 * Brandon Selic (CHAIR)
 * Roger Whatling
 * John August (until 22:03)
 * Fred Gerner
 * Miles Whiticker (from 21:51)

Apologies

 * Miles Whiticker

Absentees

 * Mitch Curnoe
 * Dave Kennedy

Observers

 * Star_Tube

Correspondence, reports, and action items

 * Alex confirms Dep RO-ship
 * Fusion Constitutional WG concluded, draft presented to Fusion exec - Andrew
 * "pls circulate" - Alex
 * Qld Campaign is a bit behind
 * e.g. National kickoff 26th March but Qld don't have a physical location yet
 * Roger volunteers to scout a Brisbane kickoff venue

PPAU funding t-shirt order

 * "How much is in the bank"
 * Currently about 11 grand
 * So we can cover candidate fees *today* and fundraise to make good that expense
 * anticipating email expenses to be substantial, BAU, so between that and other expenses Alex would want to have $1k in the bank as of election eve
 * so we have at least $2k to spend on material, effectively
 * Shirts, flyers, corflutes
 * "Starter pack" expenditure for Qld is ... about a grand
 * No decision committed to at this stage.

John's 'minimalist' campaign

 * John doesn't have a lot of energy really
 * Anticipating being a Bennelong candidate
 * Continues to do speeches
 * Bennelong can collect Pirate specific volunteers

General Business
None

Motions

 * MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous meeting as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-03-03
 * Ayes 6 (AD, AJ, BS, RW, JA, FG)
 * Motion carried 21:29


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Ayes 6 (AJ, MW, FG, RW, BS, AD)
 * Motion carried 22:33