Minutes/National Council/2016-10-05

Agenda

 * Previous meeting minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2016-09-21
 * NSW Fair Trading (Fletcher)
 * Tallship Party (Frew)
 * Pirate Bureau (Frew)
 * AEC Returns (David)
 * General Business

Start: 20:37 AEST End: 21:29 AEST

Attendance

 * Michael Keating
 * Andrew Downing
 * Simon Frew
 * Peter Fulton
 * Fletcher Boyd
 * David Crafti
 * Emily Seivers
 * Thomas Randle
 * Miles Whiticker (Social Media Team member)
 * David Read (Social Media Officer)
 * Mozart Palmer (Inquiries Officer/DRC)

Previous meeting minutes

 * See motions

NSW Fair Trading

 * Fletcher Boyd provided an update on correspondence in August and financial return for this 2015-2016
 * Remaining tasks require coordinating with David Campbell payment of submission fees for previous years, expected to be around $500

Tallship Party

 * Simon Frew provided an update
 * Stressed the importance of promoting the event over the coming weeks including maybe a press release
 * Requesed the event be added to the Party website homepage, Thomas Randle agreed to make the changes
 * Miles Whiticker intends to work with David Read to develop some slogans and flyers for the event

Pirate Bureau

 * Simon Frew raised a need to modify the Terms of Reference for the Bureau group due to change gallery software requirements
 * Simon Frew advised the Bureau was holding its first meeting on the 2016-10-06 at 8:30 AEST
 * Simon Frew advised the Bureau's image gallery was now host and the group had gained a few members

AEC Returns

 * David Crafti provided an update that returns for the Party 2015/2016 financial year were basically complete
 * Remaining task was submitting finalised information once provided by Mark Gibbons (Treasurer)

General Business

 * David Crafti advised he has contacted the Party's 2016 Federal Election candidates to confirm whether they have received correspondence from the AEC regarding funding disclosures
 * Brief discussion around whether pull up banners request a political advertising authorisation line
 * Brief discussion around the design of pull up banners
 * Simon Frew reminded the meeting of the need to progress the Member Database project

Motions

 * CFV MOTION: Appoint Andrew Downing and Simon Frew to the Steering committee
 * Put by: Fletcher Boyd
 * Ayes: 7 (Fletcher Boyd, Simon Frew, Michael Keating, David Crafti, Peter Fulton, Thomas Randle, Emily Sievers); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Accept the minutes for 2016-09-21 as written
 * Put by: Fletcher Boyd
 * Ayes: 6 (Fletcher Boyd, Simon Frew, Andrew Downing, Peter Fulton, Thomas Randle, David Crafti); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Close meeting
 * Put by: Fletcher Boyd
 * Ayes: 5 (Simon Frew, Fletcher Boyd, Thomas Randle, Peter Fulton, Andrew Downing); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.

Action Items

 * Put Tallship Party button on the front page of website