Minutes/National Council/2019-05-28

National Council Meeting 28th May 2019

Start: 20:35

Finish: 22:45

Agenda

 * Previous Minutes
 * Election wrapup
 * Congress
 * General Business
 * Sara as Press Officer
 * reimburse Daniel Judge for Pozible postage
 * Using Discord voice for future NC meetings
 * Reminder about meetings this weekend

Attendance

 * Alex Jago
 * Miles Whiticker
 * David Read
 * John August
 * Mark Gibbons
 * Daniel Oakley
 * Bryn Busai (DRC / Congress)

Apologies
None

Absentees
None

Observers

 * Sara Joyce (NSW candidate, Press Officer applicant)
 * Laura Killian

Previous Minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2019-04-30

Election Wrap-up

 * ANU election survey
 * "incredibly low on my list of priorities" - Miles


 * Flyers to national archives
 * NSW is on it
 * Other states, less so


 * Policy review on pledges
 * Requests received by John August and his responses:
 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/Requests

Congress

 * Bryn reports that we can get a $10/hour meeting room available all of the 20th/21st, but only from 12:30 to 6pm on the Saturday of the 27th/28th
 * https://www.westtorrens.sa.gov.au/CWT/content/Community/Plympton_Community_Centre
 * Alternatively, there's one for $18/h in the CBD - https://www.cityofadelaide.com.au/your-community/community-development/community-centres/box-factory-community-centre
 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/ppau_congress_2019_planning
 * "I want the announcement email to go out on Friday" - Alex
 * "So I guess I'm calling places tomorrow" - also AlexJ
 * To be finalised over email vote Wednesday night

General Business

 * Sara to Press Officer
 * See motions


 * Daniel Judge reimbursement
 * Currently at $179, approved up to $220 to account for a few late responses


 * NC meetings to Discord (Miles)
 * MW: "we have obviously ran the election committee meetings in discord voice, which were fortnightly and then weekly for the past several months"
 * MW: "feedback from all candidates was strongly positive once they had got the hang of it"
 * AJ: "as usual, everything which is to be minuted needs to be typed"
 * JA: notes issues with audio

Motions

 * MOTION: Approve the minutes of the previous meeting of 30th April 2019 as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2019-04-30
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes: 5 (JA, DO, AJ, MW, MG); Abstains 1 (DR); Nays 0
 * Motion passed at 20:55


 * MOTION: appoint Sara Joyce as Press Officer
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes: 6 (JA, DO, AJ, MW, MG, DR); Abstains 0; Nays 0
 * Motion passed at 21:56


 * MOTION: reimburse Daniel Judge up to $220 for shipping costs for T-Shirts and merchandise during the 2019 Australian federal election
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes: 5 (JA, DO, AJ, MW, MG); Abstains 0; Nays 0
 * Motion passed at 22:13


 * MOTION: National Council meetings shall switch from IRC to Discord voice + text for the remainder of this term, with fallback to (a) Discord text chat only (b) PirateIRC text chat. All voting and motion to always be done over text chat.
 * Put by Miles Whiticker / Alex Jago
 * Ayes: 6 (JA, AJ, MW, DO, DR, MG); Abstains 0; Nays 0
 * Motion passed at 22:34


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes: 6 (JA, AJ, MW, DO, DR, MG); Abstains 0; Nays 0
 * Motion passed; meeting closed at 22:45