Minutes/National Council/2022-03-03

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National Council agenda & minutes 3rd March 2022

Fusion EC ran over; start delayed to 21:32 AEDT

Agenda

• Previous minutes
  • https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-02-17
• Matters & actions arising
• Pirate nomination for Fusion DRC
• Joint social Mondays & Fridays

• General Business
  • NC meeting time
  • Progress with candidate recognition - JA
  • complaint against me - JA

• The traditional Fusion EC debrief

Attendees

• Andrew Downing
• John August
• David "Satch" Kennedy
• Miles Whiticker (chair)
• Alex Jago (minutes)
• Fred Gerner
• Roger Whatling

Apologies

• Mitchell Curnoe

Observers

• "Star_Tube" James
• Bryn "mandrke" Busai (DRC)
• Liam Pomfret (DRC)

Minutes

Fusion DRC nominations

• Fusion DRC seeks a Pirate member, seeking nominations
• James puts his hand up as a reserve (+1 self-awareness)
• Fusion DRC to be 5 person body, 3 selected to consider any issue
• mandrke & Liam also willing, Sean O'Farrell also fine to be a reserve
• Question of whether the Pirate and Fusion DRCs should or shouldn't be the same person
  • "The jurisdictional boundaries aren't set yet" - AndrewD
  • "I would've assumed and hoped that the Fusion DRC members would be delegated from the branch DRCs"
  • "E.G. if you get kicked out of PPAU, does that kick you out of Fusion?" - AD
• See motions

Joint Social Mondays & Fridays

• Fusion needs social nights!
• Potential to co-opt Pirates' Fridays
• Fusion Discord will need to be Lvl 1 boosted to cope with the level of video traffic though, which it isn't
• Consensus: we're happy to shift provided...
  • They're aware of the video/boost issue
  • We aren't going to stop having a drink and getting rowdy on Fridays

General Business

NC meeting time

• Fusion EC is perennially running over
• If we shift later than people can plan around it
• But if we shift later then that's less constraint on EC to run to time
• Miles proposes shifting NC half an hour later
• See motions

Candidate recognition

• John and Satch aren't on the Fusion website yet?
  • This despite John otherwise being treated as a candidate in terms of organising
  • What's going on?
  • Satch "this is just a website delay, I think"
• Roger says that both candidates have been endorsed by Fusion Exec
• Waiting on Fusion Campaigns Committee to approve finalised website content

Complaint against John

• This is arising from a meeting on the weekend
• John's metaphorical cup ran over, as is his tendency
• Sahar was chairing, interpreted as disruption, and has written out a complaint
• John and Miles have put together a response.
  • also sent to Sahar, which she found odd. Satch concurs - if you've escalated then the two sides of the dispute probably shouldn't be talking directly.
• Couldn't this have been sorted between the parties before escalating? That's how it should be.
• John willing to not attend meetings that Sahar chairs going forward, to avoid further conflict.
• Guess we're largely waiting on Fusion DRC to exist and make a decision now.

Fusion committee debriefs

• Alex will be Deputy RO in Qld, as of the Fusion EC meeting tonight
• "[Constitution WG] is wading through stuff as of this fortnight" - Andrew
• "Policy WG will have UBI advocate people presenting next week"
  • Tuesday night 7:30pm AEDT, should see some extra Pirates there
  • "I'm really glad to see Fusion picking this up, non-Labor lefty parties tend to be post-materialist and UBI pushes back on that" - Alex

Motions

• MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous meeting on 17th February 2022
  • Put by: Miles Whiticker
  • Ayes 6 (RW, MW, AD, AJ, DK, JA)
  • Abstain 1 (FG)
  • Motion carried 21:34 AEDT

• MOTION: put Dr Liam Pomfret forward for Fusion DRC
  • Put by: Alex Jago
  • Ayes 7 (RW, MW, AD, AJ, DK, JA, FG)
  • Motion carried 21:47 AEDT

• MOTION: shift National Council meetings to be half an hour later
  • Put by: Alex Jago
  • Ayes 7 (RW, MW, AD, AJ, DK, JA, FG)
  • Motion carried 21:59 AEDT

• MOTION: close the meeting (and finish in under an hour)
  • Put by: Alex Jago
  • Ayes 7 (RW, MW, AD, AJ, DK, JA, FG)
  • Motion carried 22:29 AEDT; meeting closed.