Minutes/National Council/2022-03-03

National Council agenda & minutes 3rd March 2022

Fusion EC ran over; start delayed to 21:32 AEDT

Agenda

 * Previous minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-02-17
 * Matters & actions arising
 * Pirate nomination for Fusion DRC
 * Joint social Mondays & Fridays


 * General Business
 * NC meeting time
 * Progress with candidate recognition - JA
 * complaint against me - JA


 * The traditional Fusion EC debrief

Attendees

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

Apologies

 * Mitchell Curnoe

Observers

 * "Star_Tube" James
 * Bryn "mandrke" Busai (DRC)
 * Liam Pomfret (DRC)

Fusion DRC nominations

 * Fusion DRC seeks a Pirate member, seeking nominations
 * James puts his hand up as a reserve (+1 self-awareness)
 * Fusion DRC to be 5 person body, 3 selected to consider any issue
 * mandrke & Liam also willing, Sean O'Farrell also fine to be a reserve
 * Question of whether the Pirate and Fusion DRCs should or shouldn't be the same person
 * "The jurisdictional boundaries aren't set yet" - AndrewD
 * "I would've assumed and hoped that the Fusion DRC members would be delegated from the branch DRCs"
 * "E.G. if you get kicked out of PPAU, does that kick you out of Fusion?" - AD
 * See motions

Joint Social Mondays & Fridays

 * Fusion needs social nights!
 * Potential to co-opt Pirates' Fridays
 * Fusion Discord will need to be Lvl 1 boosted to cope with the level of video traffic though, which it isn't
 * Consensus: we're happy to shift provided...
 * They're aware of the video/boost issue
 * We aren't going to stop having a drink and getting rowdy on Fridays

NC meeting time

 * Fusion EC is perennially running over
 * If we shift later than people can plan around it
 * But if we shift later then that's less constraint on EC to run to time
 * Miles proposes shifting NC half an hour later
 * See motions

Candidate recognition

 * John and Satch aren't on the Fusion website yet?
 * This despite John otherwise being treated as a candidate in terms of organising
 * What's going on?
 * Satch "this is just a website delay, I think"
 * Roger says that both candidates have been endorsed by Fusion Exec
 * Waiting on Fusion Campaigns Committee to approve finalised website content

Complaint against John

 * This is arising from a meeting on the weekend
 * John's metaphorical cup ran over, as is his tendency
 * Sahar was chairing, interpreted as disruption, and has written out a complaint
 * John and Miles have put together a response.
 * also sent to Sahar, which she found odd. Satch concurs - if you've escalated then the two sides of the dispute probably shouldn't be talking directly.
 * Couldn't this have been sorted between the parties before escalating? That's how it should be.
 * John willing to not attend meetings that Sahar chairs going forward, to avoid further conflict.
 * Guess we're largely waiting on Fusion DRC to exist and make a decision now.

Fusion committee debriefs

 * Alex will be Deputy RO in Qld, as of the Fusion EC meeting tonight
 * "[Constitution WG] is wading through stuff as of this fortnight" - Andrew
 * "Policy WG will have UBI advocate people presenting next week"
 * Tuesday night 7:30pm AEDT, should see some extra Pirates there
 * "I'm really glad to see Fusion picking this up, non-Labor lefty parties tend to be post-materialist and UBI pushes back on that" - Alex

Motions

 * MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous meeting on 17th February 2022
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 6 (RW, MW, AD, AJ, DK, JA)
 * Abstain 1 (FG)
 * Motion carried 21:34 AEDT


 * MOTION: put Dr Liam Pomfret forward for Fusion DRC
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 7 (RW, MW, AD, AJ, DK, JA, FG)
 * Motion carried 21:47 AEDT


 * MOTION: shift National Council meetings to be half an hour later
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 7 (RW, MW, AD, AJ, DK, JA, FG)
 * Motion carried 21:59 AEDT


 * MOTION: close the meeting (and finish in under an hour)
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 7 (RW, MW, AD, AJ, DK, JA, FG)
 * Motion carried 22:29 AEDT; meeting closed.