Minutes/National Council/2022-05-12

National Council meeting 12th May 2022

Scheduled start 9pm AEST; quorum achieved 21:02

Agenda

 * Previous Minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-04-28
 * Reports
 * Action Items
 * General Business
 * Freedom letter

Attendees

 * Alex Jago [Minutes]
 * Andrew Downing
 * Brandon Selic
 * Roger Whatling
 * David Kennedy
 * Miles Whiticker [Chair]
 * John August
 * Fred Gerner

Guests

 * Star_Tube
 * Tron92
 * {Sam}
 * molzy
 * Gold
 * milspec

Absent

 * Mitchell Curnoe

Apologies
None

Previous Minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-04-28
 * See motions

Reports and Campaign updates

 * there's a big doc of standard replies somewhere probably

QLD

 * into the nuts and bolts now
 * phone/text banking and letterboxing and deliveries
 * Really good volunteer numbers by traditional Pirate standards
 * lots of teething problems - more resources than we're used to managing!
 * not outrageous enough for media coverage :(
 * Adam Cropp was disinvited from the NQ Freedom rally - judge a man by the quality of his enemies :)

NSW

 * John went along to a few candidates' forums
 * Voices of Bennelong seem to really appreciate him, Fusion has their top rating :)
 * HTV designed, needs printing
 * Corflutes out at prepoll, need maintenance
 * Interviewed by Gene Tunney's 'Economics Explored' podcast
 * Local paper advert

VIC

 * nothing much really going on because no Pirate Vic candidates

SA

 * Dave has a campaign manager!
 * Lots of promo materiel
 * Looking for opportunities to go talk to people and find publicity
 * Looking at stencil "selective cleaning" options - been knocked back by one group already haha
 * All of SA's signs on poles are in legal locations :)

WA

 * there was simultaneous WA campaign meeting ...
 * Adam got here eventually and saved the meeting from extreme off-topic-ness
 * Everything's progressing!
 * HTVs and corflutes arrive tomorrow, as does Adam's leave period
 * /r/Perth AMA on Monday
 * Tim went on Noongar Radio recently and handled it brilliantly
 * Phonebanking to Pirates over the weekend

Action Items

 * Signal boost some more of John's things pls

'freedom' letter

 * prompted by an enquiry about Digital ID and also vaccination mandates
 * John drew up a response based on some work from Andrew
 * potentially worth publishing?

Motions

 * MOTION: accept the minutes of the previous meeting as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-04-28
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 8 (AJ, MW, AD, DK, FG, BS, JA, RW)
 * Motion carried unanimously 21:06


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 7 (RW, AD, FG, JA, DK, JA, AJ)
 * Abstain 1 (MW)
 * Meeting closed 22:05