Minutes/National Council/2019-03-05

National Council Meeting 3rd March 2019

Start: 20:41 AEDT / 19:30 AEST

End: AEST/AEDT

Agenda

 * Previous meeting minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2019-02-26


 * Correspondence, reports, action items (Secretariat)

- Australian Conservation Foundation election pledge (Miles) - see email Miles forwarded today - Australian Yellow Vest Alliance / Revive Australia electoral pledge (Miles) - see email Miles forwarded today

- Pozible campaign launch (Miles)
 * Discussion items, and motions

- Election committee meeting this Saturday 9th @ 7pm AEDT / 6pm AEST on Discord... attendees to report back at the following NC meeting on Discord usage (Miles) - Jack Foster, online privacy guide ( JohnA ) - Greens election preference communications by Sara ( JohnA)
 * General business
 * Andrew Downing resignation
 * will need to run a by-election


 * Motion to close the meeting

Attendance

 * Alex Jago
 * John Wilson
 * Joe Furi
 * Mark Gibbons
 * John August

Apologies

 * Miles (5-15 min late)

Absentees

 * David Read
 * Daniel Oakley

Observers

 * Paul de Abel
 * Shannon Smith
 * Parduss (alias)
 * Brandon Selic

Discord (JohnW)

 * Election committee are going to try it out for virtue of voice platform
 * JohnW has partial disability in fingers, VOIP much preferred
 * AlexJ happy to go with it for NC meetings too if we put in a IRC bridge

Online Privacy Guide (JohnA)

 * https://www.vpngeeks.com/online-privacy-guide
 * Author would like us to link to it
 * "I say go for it as long as whatever you write about it doesn't seem like a commercial endorsement" - AlexJ
 * Alex to ask IT to add "for another POV" link of above in our Online Privacy Guide page

Preferences
** email other parties ** get responses ** publish responses ** member ballot part 1 ** horse-trading ** member ballot part 2
 * Time to kick off the usual timeline:
 * Alex to get emailing

AndrewD resignation

 * As per https://pirateparty.org.au/constitution/#part-iii-10.1(8)(b)
 * Resignation was received on March 2
 * Motion to make election happen

Election pledges

 * Yellow Vests (now "Revive Australia")
 * Australian Conservation Foundation
 * Generally a problem for Election Committee
 * AlexJ warns that candidate commitments are fine, but can't contradict Party policy

General Business
None

Motions

 * Motion: Accept previous meeting minutes from Feb 26th 2019 as presented
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes: 3 (AJ, JF, JA); Abstains 2 (JW, MG)
 * Motion carried at 20:51


 * Motion: Moved that the IEWG/IT be authorised to spend necessary funds for the Voting Server in order to call for nominations etc
 * In relation to Andrew Downing's resignation-induced vacancy
 * Put by: John Wilson
 * Ayes: 5 (JW, JA, MG, AJ, JF)
 * Motion carried at 21:32


 * Motion: Close the meeting
 * Put by: John Wilson
 * Ayes: 3 (JW, JA, AJ, MG)
 * Motion carried; meeting closed at 21:48.