Minutes/National Council/2018-08-28

Start: 20:40 AEST

End: 22:59 AEST

Attendance

 * Miles Whiticker
 * Alex Jago
 * Mark Gibbons
 * Andrew Downing
 * Daniel Oakley
 * John August
 * David Read (appointed 21:35)

Apologies
None

Absentees
None

Observers

 * Laura Killian (member)
 * David Read (Social Media) (Appointed to NC at 21:35)
 * Bryn Busai (DRC)
 * Brandon Selic (member)

Previous Meeting Minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2018-08-14

Correspondence, reports, and action items

 * Contacts with other parties re electoral cooperation (AndrewD [Sydney], MilesW [Brisbane])
 * AndrewD and MarkG met with Science Party representatives on 27th
 * They're positive, nothing specific discussed
 * They've previously worked with Secular and Cyclists (who have merged into Reason federally)
 * Miles talked with James Noonan (Science's Longman by-election candidate)
 * he's generally interested
 * Science's meetings are weekly on Monday nights
 * In general more meetings with Secular and Flux todo


 * Wiki updates (MarkG, DanO)
 * they're done!


 * Crypto party thing / Pirate event in Sydney (AndrewD, JohnA)
 * Science Party would probably attend too
 * Humanist House is (as previously mentioned) nice and cheap
 * Planning thread: TODO on Discuss


 * State mailouts (Miles)
 * Miles to draft state mailouts to call for coordinators and generally drum up interest.

Discussion items

 * Corflutes (AlexJ)
 * AlexJ would like to do some 'roadsides'
 * Has designed some signage to be printed and bluetacked to the front of a regular corflute
 * see https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/cheap-and-cheerful-corflute-covers/2267
 * You'll need to be logged in to the forums to see that link
 * this needs full-NC approval, because it's to be printed
 * particularly note the logo variant
 * See motions.


 * Preselection (AlexJ)
 * Updates
 * 5 EOIs received via email across 3 states thus far
 * Do we think we need to move the date forward (i.e. will the election be called in the next two weeks?)


 * Chelsea Manning tour (MilesW)
 * Chelsea Manning will be on her first speaking tour of Australia in the next couple of weeks
 * PPAU was asked by the organisers if we'd like to be part of a sponsorship/partnership
 * Don't think we have the cash on hand to be a meaningful sponsor...
 * What we can do is promote it in our social media and in a member email
 * In exchange they'll list us as a partner/supporter on slides etc


 * Basic Income Video (MilesW)
 * If the draft's not ready for this, defer until next meeting (or email)
 * Miles, Brandon and Alex have come up with a 30 second BI video draft
 * this needs full-NC approval
 * script: https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/basic-income-short-2018
 * Not yet ready for a motion, but on the right track
 * https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/30-second-videos/2273

General Business

 * Next meeting
 * It's the one before preselection, so we need a datetime that 100% works to get quorum


 * PO Box
 * Doesn't Frew still have the key to that etc?
 * MarkG to sort it out


 * National Council vacancy
 * David Read (twisty) applies for the position
 * Has served several years as Social Media Officer (since before the 2016 Federal election)
 * As per https://pirateparty.org.au/constitution/#part-iii-10.1(8)(d) the NC has the power to appoint people
 * See motions.

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept minutes of previous PPAU National Council meeting of 14 August 2018 as presented.
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2018-08-14
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes: 5 (Miles Whiticker, Alex Jago, Mark Gibbons, Andrew Downing, John August, Daniel Oakley)
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: approve AlexJ's corflute cover designs for use in roadside displays in both colour and greyscale
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes: 5 (Miles Whiticker, Mark Gibbons, Andrew Downing, Daniel Oakley)
 * Abstentions: 1 (Alex Jago)
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Appoint David Read to the Councillor vacancy
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes: 6 (Miles Whiticker, Alex Jago, Mark Gibbons, John August, Andrew Downing, Daniel Oakley)
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Miles to send out state mailouts to a) call for coordinators b) drum up interest in the election; Alex to proofread
 * Note: to be drafted and circulated via email pre-send-out
 * Ayes: 5 (Miles Whiticker, Alex Jago, Mark Gibbons, Andrew Downing, David Read)
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Close the meeting.
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes: 5 (Miles Whiticker, Alex Jago, Mark Gibbons, Andrew Downing, David Read)
 * Motion carries.

Meeting closed.