Minutes/National Council/2017-12-13

Start: 8:47 PM AEDT

End: 10:09 PM AEDT

Attendance

 * Emily Sievers
 * Miles Whiticker
 * Simon Frew
 * Tom Randle
 * Alex Jago
 * John August (From 9:38 PM)
 * John Jeffery
 * Mark Gibbons (From 9:10 PM)

Previous Meeting Minutes (Tom)

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2017-11-29

Constitution changes complete (Tom)

 * Tom reports
 * Confirmation from NSW Fair Trading that changes from the Emergency National Congress took effect 8 December 2017.

AEC audit (Tom)

 * Tom reports
 * Because of the constitutional changes and the amount of time since the Party provided the AEC with audit documents, everything provided in October 2017 is now somewhat out of date.
 * Recommends the Party write to the AEC to point this out and question how the review process will handle this (AEC party reviews are suspended while elections/byelections are running).
 * Agreed: Emily, Alex and Tom will write to the AEC.

Standards (Tom)

 * Tom reports
 * "Over the next month/s I'd like to formalise two things:""
 * "National Council Standing Orders (the way we run these meetings) and"
 * "National Council Reports", creating some structure or format for longer form reports back to the National Council on activities.
 * Frew and Tom will work on a Standing Orders proposal
 * Miles, Frew and Tom will work on Report formats proposal

National Council vacancy (Tom)

 * Tom reports
 * 21 days from now there needs to be an election.
 * Discussion about when to close nominations
 * Motion is put, see below.

Next National Council meeting (Tom)

 * Tom proposes
 * Skip NC meeting on the 27th December
 * Reconvene on the 10th Jan 2018. Thoughts?
 * General agreement
 * Motion is put, see below.

General Business

 * Frew reports:
 * "Should be attempting Wollongong meetings again early next year".
 * Next Sydney meetup (December) is also skipped.
 * JohnA will attempt to attend the next Wollongong meeting.
 * General good wishes to all and a happy end of year break for all.

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept the minutes from National Council meeting of 29 November 2017
 * Put by: Emily Sievers
 * Ayes: 6 (Tom Randle, Simon Frew, Miles Whiticker, John Jeffery, Alex Jago, Emily Sievers); Nays: 0; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Direct the Internal Elections Working Group to hold an election for the position of Deputy Secretary with the voting period starting on 3rd January 2018 with nominations for the position closing at 11:59pm AEDT 31st December 2017
 * Put by: Tom Randle
 * Ayes: 6 (Miles Whiticker, Tom Randle, Simon Frew, Emily Sievers, Alex Jago, Mark Gibbons); Nays: 0; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: The next National Council meeting will be held on 10th January 2018
 * Put by: Tom Randle
 * Ayes: 6 (Tom Randle, John August, Emily Sievers, John Jeffery, Simon Frew, Mark Gibbons); Nays: 0; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: close meeting
 * Put by: Emily Sievers
 * Ayes: 6 (Tom Randle, Alex Jago, John Jeffery, Emily Sievers, Miles Whiticker, Simon Frew); Nays: 0; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.