Minutes/National Council/2022-09-15

National Council Meeting 2022-09-15 Start: 9:17pm AEST/AEDT

Agenda

 * Previous meeting minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-09-01
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-09-08
 * Correspondence, reports, action items (Secretariat)
 * Discussion items, and motions
 * General business
 * Motion to close the meeting

Attendance

 * Miles Whiticker (chair)
 * Alex Jago (minutes)
 * Tyrone D'Lisle
 * David "Satch" Kennedy
 * Roger Whatling
 * John August (from 21:30)

Observers

 * milspec (member)
 * Morton (member)
 * Simon (member)
 * Sam (member)
 * mandrke (DRC)

Correspondence, reports, and action items completed
None

Discussion items
None

General Business

 * John has a speech in the works. Hooray!

PDC Report Back

 * Advertising in PPAU and Fusion Discords
 * 4-5 attendees
 * Working on Republic and Planning/Devt/Housing Econ policies
 * Hopefully we'll get more people.
 * Miles invites Tyrone and Morton to get further involved with Fusion policy devt
 * extracting policy from candidates to turn it into comms, mostly

Fusion Report Backs

 * Roger: Fusion AGM to be held on October 23rd. First big post-amalgamation general meeting.
 * Miles: Victoria campaign meetings and work ongoing
 * SocMed and Comms getting set up, policy platform being nailed down
 * Vic & Qld meetups happening soon!
 * Rego looking unlikely :( Low return rates.
 * Simon only confirmed candidate so far anyway.

Membership DB going forward

 * Miles proposes opt-out integration into NationBuilder
 * Simon thinks opt out will piss a lot of people off
 * Tyrone: opt in via phone bank? Re-engagement activity as much as anything else.
 * Simon suggests making people renew with Fusion
 * Alex: we need a single source of truth.
 * "If we go in on this, it's a (relatively small) constitutional amendment and a switchover date" - AJ

Motions

 * MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous regular meeting on 1st September as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-09-01
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes (TDL, MW, AJ, RW)
 * Abstain 1 (DK)
 * Motion carried 21:19


 * MOTION: approve the minutes of the extraordinary meeting on 8th September as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-09-08
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 4 (TDL, MW, AJ, RW)
 * Abstain 1 (DK)
 * Motion carried 21:22


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: everyone
 * Ayes 5 (TDL, MW, AJ, RW, DK)
 * Meeting closed 22:06