Minutes/National Council/2022-04-14

National Council meeting 14th April 2022

Start: 9:20 pm AEST

End: 11:12 AEST

Agenda

 * Previous meeting minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-03-31
 * Correspondence, reports, action items (Secretariat)
 * Discussion items, and motions
 * APF scorecard
 * Milspec economy policy event idea
 * Tyrone MMT event
 * PPAU emails stuff
 * Candidate rego
 * Motion(s) to reimburse nomination fees
 * Fusion reportbacks
 * Campaigns
 * Policy
 * Executive
 * Constitution
 * Young pirates / uni campaigning


 * General business
 * Motion to close the meeting

Attendance

 * Miles Whiticker (Chair)
 * Alex Jago (Minutes)
 * Fred Gerner
 * Andrew Downing
 * David Kennedy
 * Roger Whatling

Absentees

 * Brandon Selic
 * Mitchell Curnoe
 * John August

Observers

 * Adam Woodings (WA Senate candidate)
 * Tyrone D'Lisle
 * Liam Pomfret (APF discussion)
 * Milspec (until 22:05)

Emails / Gsuite checkin

 * the options are bad, self-hosted or paid, pick at least one of three
 * we could drop down to just a couple of institutional inboxes as emergency backup option

Candidate registration progress

 * NSW: lower house is sorted (presumably including JohnA)
 * QLD: in as of this morning, confirmation forwarded to NC
 * SA: in on Wednesday
 * WA: booked in for Monday

Nomination Fees reimbursement

 * Approved reimbursement of nomination deposits for the five candidates.
 * See motions.

APF scorecard

 * Liam clarifies things:
 * Less questionnaire-y than previous elections
 * More "please commit to these 6 items"
 * Responses will be published
 * Andrew points out that we can probably take that exact text to Fusion Policy WG
 * Soft deadline is the end of next week, before early voting starts

MMT / econ events

 * Milspec: I'm on the PPAU policy dev committee and I'm interested in ways to reduce the income tax rate by increases in other things (land, carbon, ...)
 * Looking for some actual modelling, reached out to Gene Tunny
 * If we go on his podcast, things might be possible...


 * Tyrone: I saw Pirate discussions around MMT and JG, and I thought I might be able to get Stephen Hale along
 * SH himself is very busy but has a contact who's happy to do a presentation on MMT core principles
 * 24th April 1630 the available date and time
 * Not so much to adopt policy, but to better understand it
 * Andrew: is this meant as an internal event?
 * Tyrone: either way could work. Doing things live during an election period could be spicy
 * Andrew points out that doing it publicly is tantamount to endorsement
 * Miles is keen for JG Debate Round Two
 * Tyrone: "I want our candidates to understand so that they can better respond"
 * In conclusion, internal event for candidate and member education strongly preferred


 * Fusion in general needs more economic depth, so both of these are good

Fusion reportbacks

 * Miles: campaigns meeting: next week there's a few things coming up. Reddit AMA scheduled for the 23rd. Back-end help wanted.
 * Fusion is looking at hiring an admin assistant @ 4-8h a week for the last few weeks of the election.
 * Andrew: policy items were approved this week
 * Some of this in response to email, like the gambling ad ban
 * 'Finally' some more drugs detail
 * Tyrone to talk to Policy Working Group Tuesday fortnight?
 * Miles: Exec endorsed "let Assange out" statement, discussed emails and things
 * Andrew: Constitution WG stalled right now - Exec said they want more involvement but aren't there to be involved

Young Pirates / Uni campaigning

 * Miles has been talking to assorted young pirates (young == younger than Alex and Miles) *

General Business

 * Fred says hello and goodnight

Motions

 * MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous meeting on 31st March 2022.
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes: 6 (MW, AJ, RW, AD, DK)
 * Motion carried 21:27 AEST.


 * MOTION: approve reimbursement of $2000 nomination deposit to Adam Woodings, pending confirmation of nomination.
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 6 (FG, DK, AJ, AD, MW, RW)
 * Motion carried 22:19 AEST.


 * MOTION: approve reimbursement of $2000 nomination deposit for John August's candidacy.
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 6 (FG, DK, AJ, AD, MW, RW)
 * Motion carried 22:25 AEST.


 * MOTION: approve reimbursement of $2000 to David Kennedy for his nomination deposit.
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 5 (FG, AJ, AD, MW, RW)
 * Abstain 1 (DK)
 * Motion carried 22:29 AEST.


 * MOTION: approve reimbursement of $4000 to Alex Jago for the nomination deposits of Brandon Selic and Roger Whatling.
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 5 (FG, AD, MW, RW, DK)
 * Abstain 1 (AJ)
 * Motion carried 22:33 AEST.


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 6 (AJ, RW, DK, FG, AD, MW)
 * Motion carried 23:12 AEST.

Meeting closed.