Minutes/National Council/2022-02-03

National Council meeting 3rd Feb 2022

Start delayed to 21:40 AEDT. Quorum achieved 21:55 AEDT. Meeting closed 23:31 AEDT.

Agenda

 * PPAU email solution which doesnt cost $one milllion smackeroos (Miles)
 * How to make PPAU donations tax deductable? - AndrewD
 * Previous minutes

Attendees

 * Alex Jago
 * Andrew Downing
 * Roger Whatling
 * Miles Whiticker
 * David "Satch" Kennedy
 * John August (from 21:55)

Observers

 * Bryn "mandrke" Busai (Dispute Resolution Committee)
 * StarTube
 * KJ Newstead

Donations and Fusion

 * Unclear whether donations directly to branches of registered political parties are deductible
 * Need advice
 * Donating to Fusion (top-level) tagged for PPAU should be OK.
 * The Qld Greens for example take donations to state office and then pass a portion on to tagged local branch and to national.
 * Fusion constitution and/or bylaws should specify the distribution portions
 * Vote Planet constitution already specifies this
 * Generally branch "keeps" 90% of what it raises
 * Different rules for any AEC money back
 * May need some revision given VP -> Fusion
 * If individual branches are self funding, they will need all but admin-overhead funds
 * Only independent candidates qualify for deductibility, so donations to candidates will need to be routed through Fusion too.

Fusion reportbacks

 * Member centralisation (minus us) is almost done
 * PPAU cannot be part of this without additional CAPs, no action until Congress 2022


 * John and/or Mitch need to be at Finance Committee


 * Andrew: Policy WG got together and went over Climate Justice's bits


 * Andrew: Constitution WG took feedback from Fusion Exec re Code of Conduct, revised wording, "should be good to go"


 * Roger requests (as Fusion Secretary) a monthly update on PPAU member updates
 * Alex takes this under advisement


 * Miles reports back from Campaigns Cttee:
 * "we've been busy"
 * lots of campaigns stuff tonight which Miles had hoped to finalise but wasn't
 * Fusion Launch the main item
 * Parallel processes...
 * Press release
 * Website revamp + launch with candidates
 * Mailout
 * All 70-90% done
 * on track for 2-week launch delay from originally planned
 * At least AEC has published name change now
 * "We don't have clear comms processes yet"
 * Lots of structural stuff CC needs to do
 * Sara Joyce has been super helpful with the press release
 * Still hoping to finalise stuff over the weekend
 * Code of Conduct seems to be a launch-blocking item but still not approved by Exec tonight, aargh
 * Andrew: Sounds like Exec need to be able to delegate someone to approve stuff subject to $conditions
 * Roger: FusExec established a CFV process tonight
 * State organising teams the other main item
 * Other people aren't quite getting the point yet
 * That video idea has gotten a reworked script

Email

 * Self-hosting email is doable, but deliverability has never been worse
 * Fusion is most likely about to adopt Google Workspace
 * Andrew sees "role as mailbox" as a win
 * Current setup is "person-as-mailbox" with "position-as-list"
 * PPAU itself doesn't need Workspaces per se, it's just nice to have
 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/email_suggestions
 * Alex, Satch, Bryn delegated to look into it

Previous Minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-01-20
 * See motions

Motions

 * MOTION: Approve the minutes of the previous meeting on January 20th 2022.
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 5 (MW, DK, AJ, AD, JA)
 * Abstain 1 (RW)
 * Motion carried 22:23 AEDT.


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: David Kennedy
 * Ayes 6 (RW, MW, DK, AJ, AD, JA)
 * Motion carried 23:31 AEDT.