Minutes/National Council/2022-06-09

PPAU National Council Meeting 9th June 2022

Scheduled start time: 9pm AEST

Quorum achieved 21:11; meeting closed 22:36.

Agenda

 * Previous minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-05-12
 * Lapse of Councillor status - Mitchell Curnoe
 * National Congress
 * Email situation
 * Fusion Organisational Planning (Roger)
 * Ability to access Pirate members for official Fusion activities (Roger)
 * General Business

Attendees

 * Miles Whiticker
 * Fred Gerner
 * Alex Jago
 * Roger Whatling
 * Andrew Downing
 * John August (from 21:20 to 21:40)
 * David Kennedy (from 21:19)

Apologies

 * Brandon Selic
 * John August

Absent

 * Mitchell Curnoe

Guests

 * Morton (member)
 * Sam (member)
 * James (member) (from 22:00)

Previous meeting minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-05-12
 * See motions

Lapse of Councillor status - Mitchell Curnoe

 * Under https://pirateparty.org.au/constitution/#part-iii-10.1(6) Mitch's status as a Councillor has lapsed.
 * Strictly speaking, we need to call an election for that position for 21 days from now
 * Given National Congress has to happen by the end of July, this is janky
 * John: "I think we are constitutionally obliged to advertise the vacancy"
 * Alex: "you know what, this is silly"
 * Motion put to roll the vacancy forward to Congress

National Congress

 * 42 day notice period means we need either the 23rd/24th or the 30th/31st of July
 * CAPs due in by 28 days before
 * General preference for 23rd/24th
 * See motions

Email Situation

 * the G Suite legacy free edition will no longer be available starting June 27, 2022
 * All we critically need is email, but modern spam is such that deliverability is very difficult for DIY
 * Dave to investigate alternatives ASAP
 * Worst case scenario, we drop down to a single Workspace user

Fusion Organisational Planning (Roger)

 * General invitation for all PPAU-NC to attend Fusion working meetings
 * see upcoming emails from Roger

Ability to access Pirate members for official Fusion activities (Roger)

 * At the moment getting access to Pirates for decisions is tricky at a Fusion level
 * We can vote on Pirate things easily but it's tricky at Fusion level
 * "I want us to work out a better way for Pirate members to be Fusion members" - Roger
 * "If we're going to merge the databases then I'd rather we just did that" - Alex
 * "What's the specific problem?" - Alex
 * "PPAU members can only be informed of Fusion level stuff through the PPAU mailing list (which they may be unsubscribed to)" - Roger
 * Can we automate Fusion mailouts into Dada? Maybe.
 * "I invite the Fusion Secretary and Pirate Deputy Secretary to put a CAP to merge our database into Fusion's" - Alex

General Business

 * the South American Pirate Parties (Chileans specifically) are doing a policy-collation effort
 * JayS has been in touch


 * Miles will be theorycrafting a few things


 * Reimbursement request for the Qld election afterparty
 * Roger: this was a Fusion event, let's send it to them in the first instance


 * Dave: this raises a question about election campaign expenses; obviously consumables are tax-deduction claimable (as donations in kind to my campaign) but permanent things? A ladder, side cutters...

Actions

 * Alex to announce the National Congress etc
 * Alex to draft a CAP that if the Annual National Congress is due in less than 90 days, vacancies may be rolled forward
 * Roger to draft a member-database-merger CAP
 * Roger to invite people to Fusion things
 * Miles: calls for candidates for VIC and NSW state elections

Motions

 * MOTION approve the minutes of the previous meeting
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes: 5 (MW, AD, FG, RW, AJ)
 * Motion carried 21:16


 * MOTION: given the impending National Congress, just roll the casual vacancy forward
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes: 6 (RW, FG, JA, AJ, DK, AD)
 * Abstains: MW
 * Motion carried 21:30


 * MOTION: hold the Annual National Congress of Pirate Party Australia on the 23rd and 24th of July 2022.
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes: 7 (FG MW DK RW JA AD AJ)
 * Motion carried 21:37.


 * MOTION: close the meeting.
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 5 (AJ, RW, AD, DK, FG)
 * Motion carried 22:36