Minutes/National Council/2015-12-09

Agenda

 * Previous meeting's minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2015-11-25
 * Appointing Peter Fulton to vacant NC position (DanielJ)
 * Party-wide Strategy Meeting (Frew)
 * CS:GO Tourny (Frew)
 * Pozible reward mailout (DanielJ)
 * General Business

Start: 20:50 AEST

End: 21:52 AEST

National Council

 * Simon Frew
 * Thomas Randle
 * Fletcher Boyd
 * Daniel Judge
 * Mark Gibbons
 * Michael Keating
 * Peter Fulton

Apologies

 * David Crafti

Previous meeting's minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2015-11-25
 * See Motions

Appointing Peter Fulton to vacant NC position

 * Due to Aidens NC resignation Peter Fulton was approached to join National Council
 * Peter has accepted.
 * IT has undertaken the necessary mailing lists changes & additions
 * See Motions

Party-wide Strategy Meeting

 * The idea is that we cover 2 topics, State branches and relations with other Parties
 * Broadly, we need to get state branches together, there is a draft Constitution that can be implemented in each State and we have a basis for a unified state branch platform
 * We need people in each state to pick up the ball and run with it
 * A strategy meeting will get some of those interested to show up and get press ganged into doing the work (in theory)
 * Relations with other Parties will gauge the Party's feelings towards absorbing smaller parties, particularly those whose views are pretty close to ours
 * MarkG and Crafti have both argued in favour of approaching some of the smaller unregistered parties and it would be nice to see what members think of the idea
 * Frew was also approached by someone from another progressive party about logistics should such a thing occur
 * We don't need to debate the ins and outs of the issue now, just whether everyone agrees that we should put it to members
 * a lot of these parties are tiny single issue affairs which aren't likely to manage registration
 * One idea would be if a single issue party was "absorbed" by us, they get their policy in our policy set if it passes muster and we get the extra members and volunteers, and they get the extra size and infrastructure and registered base
 * Anything would need to be a process, especially with bigger parties which would be more than "absorption"
 * we have a process for introducing new policy, congress. We can offer to put a policy to the members and work on the administrative side of a merger but at the end of the day the council can't promise acceptance in any meaningful form
 * We won't compromise our processes
 * Lots of discomfort and opinions on the matter, basically we'd be looking at devising a process for if the issue arises
 * Look into having a meeting on Jan 13
 * See Motions

CS:GO Tourney

 * A play off next Wednesday at 9pm, to determine team.
 * Need to get the server details from the /r/circlejerk guy
 * Frew will chase up the info and include it in the mailout which should go out in the next couple of days

Pozible reward mailout

 * Receipts for postage sent to NC
 * 10 small packs for stickers and badges
 * 16 shirt packs for those who have provided sizes
 * still approx a dozen who need to provide shirt sizes
 * DanielJ will contact further to chase them up
 * postage costs so far $176.49
 * See Motions

General Business

 * CAPT-Irrelevant, to send a bio and pic to secretary@
 * Scheduled NC meeting for 23rd Dec will go ahead as planned at this stage

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept the minutes for 2015-11-25 as written.
 * Put by: Frew
 * Ayes: 5 (Frew, Keating, Rundll, Fletcher, DanielJ); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Result: Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Accept Peter Fulton to fill the vacant Councillor position on the National Council
 * Put by: Frew
 * Ayes: 6 (Frew, Rundll, Fletcher, DanielJ, Keating, MarkG); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Result: Motion carries.


 * MOTION: The Party to hold a Strategy meting on January 13 to discuss State branches and relations with other Parties
 * Put by: Frew
 * Ayes: 6 (Frew, Rundll, Fletcher, DanielJ, Keating, MarkG); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Result: Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Reimburse DanielJ $176.49 for postage for the Canning By-Election Pozible campaign
 * Put by: Frew
 * Ayes: 6 (Frew, Rundll, Fletcher, CAPT-Irrelevant, Keating, MarkG); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 1 (DanielJ)
 * Result: Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Close meeting.
 * Put by: Frew
 * Ayes: 5 (Frew, Rundll, Fletcher, DanielJ, Keating); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Result: Motion carries.