Minutes/National Council/2018-03-05

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Attendance

 * Peter Lawler
 * Miles Whiticker
 * Alex Jago
 * Emily Sievers
 * Tom Randle
 * John Jeffrey

Apologies

 * Simon Frew

Absentees

 * Mark Gibbons
 * John August

Previous Meeting Minutes (Secretariat)

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2018-02-19
 * Tom noticed the minutes were missing absentees
 * Miles noted it hadn't mentioned his apology for being unable to attend
 * Peter corrected minutes as per these notes

Correspondence, reports, and action items (Secretariat)

 * Alex Jago completed his action item from last fortnight
 * Emily Sievers congratulated Alex on his good work

Discussion items, and motions

 * Adopt Nation Council Standing Orders (Tom) https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/2018-nc-standing-orders
 * Tom stated that this formalises what we already do, most of the top sections are just an instruction guide on how to run a meeting
 * Tom mentioned that there are two section of importance: 'Suspension of Standing Orders' and 'Interruption of business', they are in there to provide a process and rules if things ever go very wrong in an NC meeting and they really just establish parliamentary procedures to resolve things and keep meetings moving.
 * Alex questioned what constituted "interrupting the business"
 * Tom said that this was the only section of his proposal he was yet to be happy with, it related to the NC being able to silence a member during debate on an agenda topic but the text as currently presented suggested the member would be silenced for the remainder of the meeting.
 * Peter suggested the council take some time to tighten the text up
 * Tom agreed, stating that procedural motions are separate from the interrupting section and that interrupting a councilor is the same as interrupting the business of a meeting.
 * Tom then decided to defer this until next meeting


 * Site blocking submission (Tom)
 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/submission-copyright-online-infringement-amendment
 * Tom needs volunteers to help writing the submission
 * John Jeffery to help contributing
 * Peter will attempt but is unsure what he can offer
 * Emily stated that she would see what she could do
 * Tom mentioned there were reading materials in the pad and next step to work on structure then proceed to telling the government they're idiots and should repeal this censorship law


 * March newsletter (Tom) https://emailpad.pirateparty.org.au/load/mailout-newsletter-2018-02
 * Need to mention passing AEC Audit
 * Alex to write on THursday
 * Emily to contribute para/s

Background: There are law changes on the 15th. A loophole, whereby some of our online images didn’t require an auth tag under some circumstances, is likely now closed. I propose we just put auth tags on everything. I also added a requirement for SVG source files to go in the new repository for them. Draft change text is currently on my wiki Talk page: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/User_talk:AlexJago
 * Update the Authorisation Processes (AlexJ)

General Business

 * Paying attention during meeting attendance (Pete)

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept minutes from PPAU National Council meeting of 19 February 2018
 * Put by: Emily Sievers
 * Ayes: 6 (Miles Whiticker, Tom Randle, Emily Sievers, Peter Lawler, John Jeffery, Alex Jago); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0


 * MOTION: close meeting
 * Put by:
 * Motion.