Minutes/National Council/2023-08-24

National Council Meeting 2023-08-24

Start: 19:42 AEST

Agenda

 * Previous meeting minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2023-08-03
 * Correspondence, reports, action items (Secretariat)
 * Acknowledgement of Congress motions
 * Updates to party Constitution
 * Updates to party Platform
 * any other handover admin?
 * Discussion items, and motions
 * General business
 * Motion to close the meeting

Attendance

 * Adam Woodings
 * John August
 * Alex Jago (minutes)
 * Miles Whiticker (chair)

Apologies

 * David Kennedy

Observers

 * milspec (member)

Updates to party Constitution

 * https://github.com/ppau/documents
 * Needs an update, and then a rebuild and an upload
 * Traditional for NC motion to certify the draft version with the changes
 * Also tradition in PPAU to not vote on previous AGM minutes, NC can approve
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2023/Minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2023/Motions
 * ^^^ Needs updating with online vote results, but everything carried
 * https://voting.pirateparty.org.au/elections/1wbm3KGBpYnjJW/
 * (the above link will eventually die as the server gets periodically suspended and rebuilt)

Acknowledgement of Congress motions

 * https://voting.pirateparty.org.au/elections/1wbm3KGBpYnjJW/
 * All votes (CAP-1, CAP-2, CAP-3, FM-1 and PM-1) ratified with plenty of margin (and quorum)

Updates to party Platform

 * PM-1 only
 * Should be a straightforward copy-paste

Any other handover admin?

 * In theory we should be getting in touch with NSW Fair Trading to lodge the updated party constitution
 * John is the Public Officer, all is well
 * Very little to hand over as top 3 all the same


 * Current signatories to PPAU bank accounts are Alex, John, and also Mark Gibbons (former Treasurer) under by-law 2021-01
 * All good there.

Fusion report-backs

 * Miles: Looking to work through an organising cycle with member events that build on each other
 * 3-4 events a month
 * Monthly members meeting, monthly volunteer induction, occasional specialist campaign training
 * Regular Policy Development Committee meetings
 * Needs a Pirate there!
 * Fusion AGM intended date of November 4th
 * Miles has put his hand up to lead a constitutional amendments working group
 * Positive Fusion EC meetings recently - focus on building & ops planning
 * might take dry stuff like finance report out of the monthly member meeting and put it on a website dashboard
 * Hard to get live stats out of NB but can manually update a static page monthly
 * State roadmap being developed for state coords
 * Need to redevelop consitution to not be unfair to vanilla Fusion people and allow for both ideological (national) and local/state (cross-ideological) branches, renaming the former to "member organisations" with some min requirements
 * Functionally it's probably going to work best for state/local elections to be run by state-based organisations because each state's electoral law has somewhat different requirements (potentially even conflicting)


 * Volunteer induction event went well - want to run them monthly
 * Candidate info session - good stuff there also - every 3 months
 * Looking to rotate through former candidates for speakers
 * Next one's November 25th


 * Adam: the intended "Spanish Inquisition" candidate process is going to take a lot of time - how are we going to work the timeline so we don't run out of time there?
 * Miles: obviously many elections are done on a compressed timeframe, we'll have to streamline a bit
 * Also many "interview" phases could double up with "induction" phases
 * e.g. Aston got done in ~3 weeks from opening nominations to selecting a candidate, so it's doable on a tight timeframe
 * Could even do a dry run and get prospective candidates to put their hand up well in advance
 * Adam: we also got pretty lucky last election with minimal contention over Senate ticket order

John report-backs

 * Interviewed Bridgid - can listen to the recording
 * https://www.mixcloud.com/Johnorg/roving-spotlight-22-aug-23-government-business-privacy-abuse-greens-in-yarra-toxic-mining/

Discussion items
None

General Business

 * Shout out: Fusion PDC could do with a Pirate member
 * Also need a brevity editor
 * milspec has been turning up to most WGs, thanks mate!
 * Wednesdays, typically

Actions going forward

 * John: pull request to constitution.tex with CAP-1, CAP-2, CAP-3 updates (3 PRs welcome)
 * Alex: update Congress Motions page with member vote results
 * Adam and Alex: Rebuild and upload updated constitution.tex
 * Alex: update https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policies/Economic_Reform
 * Alex: finalise Congress minutes (CAP-1 floor motion and AJ nomination) and distribute
 * Everyone: read over Congress minutes for approval motion next meeting
 * Miles (for Jay): follow up with PPI to lodge application

Motions

 * MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous meeting as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2023-08-03
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 4 (MW, AW, JA, AJ)
 * Motion carried 20:20


 * MOTION: acknowledge that Congress 2023's CAP-1, CAP-2, CAP-3, FM-1 and PM-1 have all passed their member ratification vote
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 4 (AJ, AW, JA, MW)
 * Motion carried 20:23


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 4 (MW, JA, AW, AJ)
 * Carried 21:17; meeting closed.