Minutes/National Council/2019-03-05

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National Council Meeting 3rd March 2019

Start: 20:41 AEDT / 19:30 AEST

End: AEST/AEDT

Agenda

• Previous meeting minutes
  • https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2019-02-26

• Correspondence, reports, action items (Secretariat)

- Australian Conservation Foundation election pledge (Miles) - see email Miles forwarded today - Australian Yellow Vest Alliance / Revive Australia electoral pledge (Miles) - see email Miles forwarded today

• Discussion items, and motions

- Pozible campaign launch (Miles)

• General business

- Election committee meeting this Saturday 9th @ 7pm AEDT / 6pm AEST on Discord... attendees to report back at the following NC meeting on Discord usage (Miles) - Jack Foster, online privacy guide ( JohnA ) - Greens election preference communications by Sara ( JohnA)

• Andrew Downing resignation
  • will need to run a by-election

• Motion to close the meeting

Attendance

• Alex Jago
• John Wilson
• Joe Furi
• Mark Gibbons
• John August

Apologies

• Miles (5-15 min late)

Absentees

• David Read
• Daniel Oakley

Observers

• Paul de Abel
• Shannon Smith
• Parduss (alias)
• Brandon Selic

Discussion items

Discord (JohnW)

• Election committee are going to try it out for virtue of voice platform
• JohnW has partial disability in fingers, VOIP much preferred
• AlexJ happy to go with it for NC meetings too if we put in a IRC bridge

Online Privacy Guide (JohnA)

• https://www.vpngeeks.com/online-privacy-guide
• Author would like us to link to it
• "I say go for it as long as whatever you write about it doesn't seem like a commercial endorsement" - AlexJ
• Alex to ask IT to add "for another POV" link of above in our Online Privacy Guide page

Preferences

• Time to kick off the usual timeline:

   ** email other parties
   ** get responses
   ** publish responses
   ** member ballot part 1
   ** horse-trading
   ** member ballot part 2

• Alex to get emailing

AndrewD resignation

• As per https://pirateparty.org.au/constitution/#part-iii-10.1(8)(b)
• Resignation was received on March 2
• Motion to make election happen

Election pledges

• Yellow Vests (now "Revive Australia")
• Australian Conservation Foundation
• Generally a problem for Election Committee
• AlexJ warns that candidate commitments are fine, but can't contradict Party policy

General Business

None

Motions

• Motion: Accept previous meeting minutes from Feb 26th 2019 as presented
  • Put by: Alex Jago
  • Ayes: 3 (AJ, JF, JA); Abstains 2 (JW, MG)
  • Motion carried at 20:51

• Motion: Moved that the IEWG/IT be authorised to spend necessary funds for the Voting Server in order to call for nominations etc
  • In relation to Andrew Downing's resignation-induced vacancy
  • Put by: John Wilson
  • Ayes: 5 (JW, JA, MG, AJ, JF)
  • Motion carried at 21:32

• Motion: Close the meeting
  • Put by: John Wilson
  • Ayes: 3 (JW, JA, AJ, MG)
  • Motion carried; meeting closed at 21:48.