Minutes/National Council/2021-08-19

Start: 20:35 AEST

End: 21:49 AEST

Agenda
Sydney Assange group report (JohnA) Economics Event (JohnA) Treasury access progress (JohnA)
 * Previous meeting minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-08-05
 * Correspondence, reports, and action items
 * Party Rego changes and the open letter (Miles/Alex)
 * Sticker Drive update (Alex)
 * Confirmation of ballot results and updated policy text (Alex)
 * Update from IR committee (Miles)
 * Request for pizza budget for Young Pirates event (Miles)
 * Direct Democracy software trial (Miles)
 * Participatory budgeting trial (Miles)
 * NSW Corporations Act compliance (Miles)
 * Discussion items, and motions
 * Email lists, Microsoft and AWS SES (Alex)
 * General business
 * Motion to close the meeting

Attendance

 * Miles Whiticker (chair)
 * Alex Jago (minutes)
 * Andrew Downing
 * Roger Whatling
 * Mitchell Curnoe
 * John August
 * David Kennedy
 * Fred Gerner

Absentees

 * Brandon Selic

Observers

 * maus
 * milspec
 * Star_Tube
 * twisty

Previous meeting minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-08-05
 * see motions

Party Rego changes and open letter

 * Proposed party rego changes to increase rego to 1500
 * Minor parties led by Progressives drafting an open letter
 * as we received it https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/open_letter_electoral_amendment21
 * see motions
 * also some chat about potential change-prompted mergers

Sticker Drive update

 * Going well, up to mid-$300s
 * Many pledgers giving extra money
 * Let's do something cool
 * Closes on September 19th
 * Shirts also largely ready to go, just waiting on stickers to cross the line

Certification of ballot results

 * Everything passed
 * See motions

IR Committee update

 * Investigating rejoining PPI
 * Still in research stage
 * Positive so far, but any decision a long way off
 * PR on Afghanistan, hopefully
 * PDC collab re treaties

Incorporation compliance things

 * There's a few things we need to do:
 * Get that Public Officer form in, John!
 * Having done that, we need to lodge our financial return
 * Miles intends to write a you-beaut handover document for both AEC and NSW Fair Trading obligations

Treasury access

 * Alex has to go to the bank to sort out updated signatories
 * Mitch has to go to ANZ too to verify his existence with them


 * In parallel Mark Gibbons is fighting with Stripe support over KYC related account verification
 * As of this meeting (since we haven't passed a motion saying so) Mark is set to not be a signatory any more (as we haven't put a motion to that effect)

Assange event

 * John went along to the Sydney zoom event
 * went well
 * Suggests we add a whistleblower support sticker

Young Pirates Event

 * Next Friday
 * At UQ, co-hosted with Libertarian Soc
 * Miles request $50 for pizza budget

Direct democracy and participatory budgeting trials

 * Miles has tasked the Programming Team with checking out a couple of direct democracy text stacks
 * NewVote https://newvote.org
 * Liquid Feedback  https://liquidfeedback.com/en/
 * gry has volunteered to take a look at install requirements; Satch also volunteers
 * intent to trial at a committee level with intent to using them at Congress level
 * Andrew volunteers PDC, which it will likely work well for
 * very detailed proposal to follow

this ties into ... participatory budgeting


 * Option A: members write up detailed and costed proposals for expenditure; NC picks and chooses
 * Option B: referendum at Congress to guide the NC as to funding allocation
 * detailed proposal to follow

Email fun times

 * the Lists server could go through SES but currently doesn't
 * Microsoft currently thinks it's a spam IP
 * "I don't think this needs a vote, just make it happen." - Roger, who is affected

Economics Event

 * John has Mark Gibbons and Cameron Murray on board
 * planned date September 1st
 * better do some promo!
 * Tech test run on the 28th, hopefully

General Business

 * Twisty is alive ... just

Abuses of powers w.r.t. lockdown and such

 * Mitch proposes forming a working group to look into this sort of thing
 * Roger working on a revised position
 * Star_Tube also interested
 * Andrew notes the policy (long term) vs. press release (short term)
 * Miles notes that if we're going to have eventual actual policy the preceding pressers should match it
 * Working Group formed vaguely under PDC's remit

Motions

 * MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous meeting from 5th August
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 7 (MW, AJ, FG, JA, RW, DK, AD)
 * Abstain 1 (MC)
 * Motion carried 20:38 AEST


 * MOTION: Approve signing onto Corey Allen's open letter
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 7 (MC, AD, MW, FG, DK, JA, AJ)
 * Abstain 1 (RW)
 * Motion carried 20:47 AEST


 * MOTION: that NC certifies all online ballots as having carried.
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 8 (MC, AD, MW, FG, DK, JA, AJ, RW)
 * Motion carried 20:57


 * MOTION: approve Miles and/or Alex to spend up to $50 on catering and misc expenses for the Young Pirates event at UQ
 * Ayes 6 (MC, AD, FG, DK, JA, RW)
 * Abstain 2 (AJ, MW)
 * Motion carried 21:02


 * MOTION: once John is Public Officer, preauthorise the appropriate reimbursement of the lodgement fee for the Financial Affairs form lodgement
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 7 (MC, AD, MW, FG, DK, AJ, RW)
 * Abstain 1 (JA)
 * Motion carried 21:27 AEST


 * MOTION: close the meeting.
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Carried unanimously.
 * Meeting closed at 21:49 AEST