Minutes/National Council/2021-11-25

PPAU National Council Meeting 25th November 2021

Start time: 20:30 AEDT

Agenda

 * Prev Minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-11-11
 * Matters arising


 * Congress debrief
 * Voting progress update


 * Livestreams
 * 19th debrief
 * planning the next


 * Fusion
 * Report backs
 * Action items
 * AEC list needed soon
 * The latest shenanigans

Attendees

 * Miles Whiticker (chair)
 * Alex Jago (minutes)
 * Roger Whatling
 * John August
 * Andrew Downing
 * Mitchell Curnoe
 * David Kennedy
 * Brandon Selic
 * Fred Gerner
 * Liam Pomfret (DRC - from 8pm QLD)

Guests

 * Aaron Hammond (Science)

Matters arising

 * Fusion budget working group: Miles and Andrea Otto have been in comms on cost sharing
 * "We're going to want a somewhat flexible model given differing campaigns and resources"
 * "The important thing is to keep it simple and flexible"


 * Party preferences ballot goes out next week - Alex decided to keep it distinct for simplicity


 * Press and media and outreach:
 * Most press releases are actually getting read, it appears
 * Miles suggests reaching out to alternative radio and podcast media, who we've had more success with
 * Let's get them on the list!
 * Aaron reminds us: "this is not just what you want reporters to know, you want them to copy-paste it as an article"
 * used to have podcasts, now Miles organises livestreams
 * John might be able to get on some EFA related shows

Congress debrief

 * Quorum not yet reached in voting, so there's a risk the CAPs may lapse
 * FM-1 and the PMs don't have quorum, so they simply need to pass.
 * "I'm glad we had more of a strategy discussion this time" - Miles
 * Didn't get nearly as many people on Sunday
 * perhaps the lack of a morning-of email didn't help there
 * also we finished so fast

Email fun times

 * Pretty much all our processes rely on people getting our emails
 * ... but they get sent to the shadow realm, especially for people with Microsoft email addresses
 * We have DKIM and SPF and Amazon SES and all that, so it's not like we aren't trying
 * Roger reports getting mail now, so that's SES doing its job
 * Some onboarding process improvement work to be done
 * Liam thinks that we can probably mass SMS people, but we don't presently have a way to manage communications preferences
 * and we can certainly text bank under the existing privacy policy
 * text banking is go

Livestreams

 * Nuclear power livestream is next on the cards
 * Tyrone D'Lisle hopefully on board


 * 19th debrief:
 * lots more effort went into promotion this time
 * stimulus questions need to be distributed in advance
 * Aaron suggests the questions were perhaps a bit Qld centric - "lay a few threads in a question so that the answerer can pick one"

Fusion things

 * AEC audit imminent - Thursday 2nd is membership lists deadline
 * Need to tell people to expect both names
 * Phone banking to members: please answer yes to AEC when they call and ask if you are a member of climate emergency action alliance
 * fusionparty.org.au is live!
 * AEC contesting the name change because PPAU voluntarily deregistered, it seems - blindside moment
 * https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019C00103
 * Firstly, PPAU can't re-register on its own before the election. Sure. We knew that.
 * Secondly, there's a question of whether we're the same party. Well... we are joining Fusion, so that's debatable.
 * Thirdly, there's a question of whether the name is confusable. That's also debatable.
 * Fourth, there's no statutory time limit to process these applications.

Phone/text banking

 * It's happening
 * Vote on the CAPs
 * We are joining Fusion. Legally, we're becoming a branch of VP, and the name change is still pending
 * The AEC will probably call you in a week or two and ask you whether you're a member of "Climate Emergency Action Alliance - Vote Planet". It's imperative that you say yes.
 * ALL PIRATE POLICIES ARE STILL ACTIVE - this is an alliance of parties and we will run on our own policies

Motions
MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous meeting on November 11th
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes: 7 (MW, AJ, RW, JA, AD, MC, DK)
 * Carried 20:32 AEDT

MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes: 8 (MW, AJ, RW, AD, MC, DK, BS, FG)
 * Motion carried 21:59 AEDT