Minutes/National Council/2018-04-02

Start: 20:40 AEST

End: 21:41 AEST

Attendance

 * Emily Sievers
 * Tom Randle
 * Miles Whiticker
 * Simon Frew
 * Alex Jago
 * Mark Gibbons
 * Peter Lawler (arrived 21:08 AEST)

Apologies
John August

Absentees
John Jeffery

Previous Meeting Minutes (Tom)

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2018-03-19

Correspondence, reports, and action items (Secretariat)

 * Action item: Secretariat to start setting up the Annual National Congress 2018 wiki pages
 * Action item: Miles Whiticker to document feature requests for the members area platform (PirateDB)

Carried forward (Secretariat)

 * Tom and Miles: Member mailout call for volunteers finalisation of content
 * Mark to provide a PayPal update, added to main agenda.
 * Miles noted another copyright inquiry is open for submissions (https://www.communications.gov.au/have-your-say/copyright-modernisation-consultation)

PayPal (Mark)

 * Mark provides an update on the Party's suspended PayPal account.
 * The person who registered the account is no longer involved with the Party and the account should be properly transferred to the Treasurer.
 * PayPal are asking for more documents.
 * PayPal claim regulations changed.
 * Tom is not happy with the delay in getting the account enabled again, issue was reported on 10 March.
 * Tom is concerned PayPal is known to suspend accounts and hope they are abandoned.
 * Mark proposes to investigate possible other payment gateway options.
 * Peter suggests looking into Osko payments.
 * Alex suggest Square and Stripe

General Business

 * Tom suggests those interested in writing submissions to inquiries should make a thread on the forums to gather interest from other members.

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept the National Council meeting minutes of 2018-03-19 as presented
 * Put by: Tom Randle
 * Ayes: 6 (Tom Randle, Emily Sievers, Mark Gibbons, Alex Jago, Simon Frew, Miles Whiticker); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: close meeting
 * Put by: Emily Sievers
 * Ayes: 6 (Tom Randle, Simon Frew, Emily Sievers, Mark Gibbons, Alex Jago, Peter Lawler); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.

CFV Motions

 * MOTION: Approve payment of $127 for post office box renewal to Australia Post.
 * Put by: Simon Frew
 * Ayes: 6 (Simon Frew, Emily Sievers, Peter Lawler, Tom Randle, Alex Jago, Miles Whiticker); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.