Minutes/National Council/2022-04-14

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Meeting Minutes
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National Council meeting 14th April 2022

Start: 9:20 pm AEST

End: 11:12 AEST

Agenda

  • Previous meeting minutes
  • Correspondence, reports, action items (Secretariat)
  • Discussion items, and motions
    • APF scorecard
    • Milspec economy policy event idea
    • Tyrone MMT event
    • PPAU emails stuff
    • Candidate rego
    • Motion(s) to reimburse nomination fees
    • Fusion reportbacks
      • Campaigns
      • Policy
      • Executive
      • Constitution
    • Young pirates / uni campaigning
  • General business
  • Motion to close the meeting

Attendance

  • Miles Whiticker (Chair)
  • Alex Jago (Minutes)
  • Fred Gerner
  • Andrew Downing
  • David Kennedy
  • Roger Whatling

Apologies

Absentees

  • Brandon Selic
  • Mitchell Curnoe
  • John August

Observers

  • Adam Woodings (WA Senate candidate)
  • Tyrone D'Lisle
  • Liam Pomfret (APF discussion)
  • Milspec (until 22:05)

Correspondence, reports, and action items

Emails / Gsuite checkin

  • the options are bad, self-hosted or paid, pick at least one of three
  • we could drop down to just a couple of institutional inboxes as emergency backup option

Candidate registration progress

  • NSW: lower house is sorted (presumably including JohnA)
  • QLD: in as of this morning, confirmation forwarded to NC
  • SA: in on Wednesday
  • WA: booked in for Monday

Nomination Fees reimbursement

  • Approved reimbursement of nomination deposits for the five candidates.
    • See motions.

Discussion items

APF scorecard

  • Liam clarifies things:
    • Less questionnaire-y than previous elections
    • More "please commit to these 6 items"
    • Responses will be published
    • Andrew points out that we can probably take that exact text to Fusion Policy WG
    • Soft deadline is the end of next week, before early voting starts

MMT / econ events

  • Milspec: I'm on the PPAU policy dev committee and I'm interested in ways to reduce the income tax rate by increases in other things (land, carbon, ...)
    • Looking for some actual modelling, reached out to Gene Tunny
    • If we go on his podcast, things might be possible...
  • Tyrone: I saw Pirate discussions around MMT and JG, and I thought I might be able to get Stephen Hale along
    • SH himself is very busy but has a contact who's happy to do a presentation on MMT core principles
    • 24th April 1630 the available date and time
    • Not so much to adopt policy, but to better understand it
    • Andrew: is this meant as an internal event?
    • Tyrone: either way could work. Doing things live during an election period could be spicy
    • Andrew points out that doing it publicly is tantamount to endorsement
    • Miles is keen for JG Debate Round Two
    • Tyrone: "I want our candidates to understand so that they can better respond"
  • In conclusion, internal event for candidate and member education strongly preferred
  • Fusion in general needs more economic depth, so both of these are good

Fusion reportbacks

  • Miles: campaigns meeting: next week there's a few things coming up. Reddit AMA scheduled for the 23rd. Back-end help wanted.
  • Fusion is looking at hiring an admin assistant @ 4-8h a week for the last few weeks of the election.
  • Andrew: policy items were approved this week
    • Some of this in response to email, like the gambling ad ban
    • 'Finally' some more drugs detail
    • Tyrone to talk to Policy Working Group Tuesday fortnight?
  • Miles: Exec endorsed "let Assange out" statement, discussed emails and things
  • Andrew: Constitution WG stalled right now - Exec said they want more involvement but aren't there to be involved


Young Pirates / Uni campaigning

  • Miles has been talking to assorted young pirates (young == younger than Alex and Miles) *

General Business

  • Fred says hello and goodnight

Motions

  • MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous meeting on 31st March 2022.
    • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Ayes: 6 (MW, AJ, RW, AD, DK)
    • Motion carried 21:27 AEST.
  • MOTION: approve reimbursement of $2000 nomination deposit to Adam Woodings, pending confirmation of nomination.
    • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Ayes 6 (FG, DK, AJ, AD, MW, RW)
    • Motion carried 22:19 AEST.
  • MOTION: approve reimbursement of $2000 nomination deposit for John August's candidacy.
    • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Ayes 6 (FG, DK, AJ, AD, MW, RW)
    • Motion carried 22:25 AEST.
  • MOTION: approve reimbursement of $2000 to David Kennedy for his nomination deposit.
    • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Ayes 5 (FG, AJ, AD, MW, RW)
    • Abstain 1 (DK)
  • Motion carried 22:29 AEST.
  • MOTION: approve reimbursement of $4000 to Alex Jago for the nomination deposits of Brandon Selic and Roger Whatling.
    • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Ayes 5 (FG, AD, MW, RW, DK)
    • Abstain 1 (AJ)
    • Motion carried 22:33 AEST.
  • MOTION: close the meeting
    • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Ayes 6 (AJ, RW, DK, FG, AD, MW)
    • Motion carried 23:12 AEST.

Meeting closed.

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