Minutes/National Council/2022-07-22

National Council Meeting 22nd July 2022 Scheduled start time: 21:21 AEST

National Council

 * Miles Whiticker
 * Roger Whatling
 * Alex Jago
 * Fred Gerner
 * Andrew Downing
 * John August

Members and Observers

 * Bryn "mandrke" Busai (DRC)
 * Sam (member)
 * pdgeorge (member; from 22:26)

Apologies

 * Dave Kennedy

Agenda
Call to order


 * Previous minutes (Alex)
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-06-23

Upcoming events, reports and correspondence


 * National Congress (Miles/Alex)


 * PPAU branch finances report to Fusion for F22-23 (Alex/JohnA)


 * Fusion treasurer (Michael M) needs assistance (Miles)


 * Fusion report backs

Previous Minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-06-23

Media output

 * Assange: this story isn't over, we/Fusion have things to say

Matters arising

 * Andrew reports the new email system seems to work
 * Alex: "I don't really know where to start"

National Congress

 * Wiki is all set up like normal
 * todo: work through the one-two PMs
 * pls (re)nominate
 * Andrew isn't
 * this is why we need a PDC
 * mandrke has set up vdo.ninja so we'll have a stream - hooray

Fusion reports

 * Will forward PPAU financial report to Fusion post adoption at Congress
 * MM needs some help at Fusion level sorting election returns out
 * Anyone know Xero?


 * Values workshop ran tonight, good progress made.


 * Smol drama today: we put out a CTA for the Vic election and didn't actually mention Fusion in the original post about it. Bit of a whoopsie.
 * This inspired some discussion around Fusion member signup
 * In principle, membership of Fusion is meant to be via a branch
 * This is... in some tension with building a more united party
 * "People do need to know that the registered/registrable entity is Fusion and that's the brand/message to be pushed. I also don't agree with the push to de-branch Fusion" - RW
 * Fundamentally, we aren't going to stop maintaining our discrete identity.
 * JohnA proposes a motion endorsing Miles' defending and maintaining Pirate identity in a Fusion context


 * New donations and payments policy at a Fusion level now exists.

Victorian state election

 * 2021 rehash on a smaller scale
 * Lots of phone banking across the parties
 * Need 500, aiming for 750
 * Deadline is the 29th, squeaking in
 * Small Privacy Policy amendment to... actually allow state registration
 * See motions

Motions

 * MOTION: accept the minutes of the previous meeting as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-06-23
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 5 (MW, AJ, RW, JA, AD); Abstain 1 (FG)
 * Motion carried 22:25


 * MOTION: Amend the privacy policy to replace "Pirate Party Australia will not sell or otherwise share any information collected for the purposes of membership registration with any party other than the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) as required by the Electoral Act for the purposes of registering a political party." with "Pirate Party Australia will not sell or otherwise share any information collected for the purposes of membership registration with any party other than the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) or state/territory electoral commissions as required by the Electoral Act or equivalent for the purposes of registering a political party. This disclosure may be as part of an electoral coalition as described in section 14.2 of the Party Constitution."
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker and Alex Jago
 * Ayes 6 (MW, AJ, AD, JA, FG, RW)
 * Motion carried 22:15


 * MOTION: The National Council of Pirate Party Australia endorses the Pirate Party President's advocacy for the retention of distinct branches within Fusion, as described within the Fusion Constitution's Purposes and Values.
 * Put by: John August
 * Ayes 5 (RW, FG, AJ, JA, AD); Abstain 1 (MW)
 * Carried 22:43


 * MOTION: appoint Sean O'Farrell as Returning Officer for the Annual National Congress 2022.
 * Note: Sean is the continuing member of the Dispute Resolution Committee.
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 6 (MW, AJ, AD, JA, FG, RW)
 * Motion carried 22:46


 * MOTION: close the meeting.
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Carried unanimously at 22:53

Actions

 * todo: JA (and AJ) to put the financial report together
 * done: Andrew (and AJ) to finalise the CGT PM
 * done: AJ to implement the missing PMs from the Emergency Congress
 * done: AJ to set YouTube streams up for Saturday and Sunday
 * done: AJ to update Privacy Policy
 * done: write "Congress is tomorrow!" email to go out... when Congress will be tomorrow
 * todo: MW to recruit phonebankers