Minutes/National Council/2016-12-14

Agenda

 * Previous meeting minutes
 * QLD Redistribution submission
 * Tall ship update/decision
 * General Business

Start: 20:45 AEST

End: 21:42 AEST

Attendance

 * Michael Keating
 * Simon Frew
 * Thomas Randle
 * Emily Seivers
 * Andrew Downing
 * David Crafti
 * Peter Fulton
 * Fletcher Boyd

Others


 * Alex Jago

Previous meeting minutes

 * Incomplete https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2016-11-30

QLD Redistribution submission

 * The Queensland federal redistribution opens about now, The big three parties make redistribution submissions.
 * Alex Jago would like to do a submission on behalf of the Party, has already done one recently for Tasmania.
 * Agreement for Alex to go ahead, NC will liase / discuss anything that comes up as he goes.

Tall ship update/decision

 * David Crafti queries whether we need to cancel it now, expressed concern around struggling to get numbers to break even.
 * Simon Frew confirms if we can't pay the deposit, the event is cancelled automatically.
 * Peter Fulton expressed the issue he sees is that the deposit deadline and the event are too far apart.
 * General agreement any final decision by the NC on the event can be CFV before next meeting if required.

General Business

 * Thomas Randle requests an update from Treasury on Party accounts to the NC for IT spending / planning.
 * Andrew Downing has started new discussions around participative democracy systems with some outside parties.

Motions

 * MOTION: Close meeting
 * Put by: Thomas Randle
 * Ayes: 7 (Michael Keating, Andrew Downing, Peter Fulton, Emily Seivers, Thomas Randle, David Crafti, Simon Frew); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.