Minutes/National Council/2022-09-15

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National Council Meeting 2022-09-15 Start: 9:17pm AEST/AEDT

Agenda

• Previous meeting minutes
  • https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-09-01
  • https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-09-08
• Correspondence, reports, action items (Secretariat)
• Discussion items, and motions
• General business
• Motion to close the meeting

Attendance

• Miles Whiticker (chair)
• Alex Jago (minutes)
• Tyrone D'Lisle
• David "Satch" Kennedy
• Roger Whatling
• John August (from 21:30)

Observers

• milspec (member)
• Morton (member)
• Simon (member)
• Sam (member)
• mandrke (DRC)

Correspondence, reports, and action items completed

None

Discussion items

None

General Business

• John has a speech in the works. Hooray!

PDC Report Back

• Advertising in PPAU and Fusion Discords
• 4-5 attendees
• Working on Republic and Planning/Devt/Housing Econ policies
• Hopefully we'll get more people.
• Miles invites Tyrone and Morton to get further involved with Fusion policy devt
  • extracting policy from candidates to turn it into comms, mostly

Fusion Report Backs

• Roger: Fusion AGM to be held on October 23rd. First big post-amalgamation general meeting.
• Miles: Victoria campaign meetings and work ongoing
  • SocMed and Comms getting set up, policy platform being nailed down
  • Vic & Qld meetups happening soon!
  • Rego looking unlikely :( Low return rates.
  • Simon only confirmed candidate so far anyway.

Membership DB going forward

• Miles proposes opt-out integration into NationBuilder
• Simon thinks opt out will piss a lot of people off
• Tyrone: opt in via phone bank? Re-engagement activity as much as anything else.
• Simon suggests making people renew with Fusion
  • Alex: we need a single source of truth.
  • "If we go in on this, it's a (relatively small) constitutional amendment and a switchover date" - AJ

Motions

• MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous regular meeting on 1st September as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-09-01
  • Put by: Alex Jago
  • Ayes (TDL, MW, AJ, RW)
  • Abstain 1 (DK)
  • Motion carried 21:19

• MOTION: approve the minutes of the extraordinary meeting on 8th September as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-09-08
  • Put by: Alex Jago
  • Ayes 4 (TDL, MW, AJ, RW)
  • Abstain 1 (DK)
  • Motion carried 21:22

• MOTION: close the meeting
  • Put by: everyone
  • Ayes 5 (TDL, MW, AJ, RW, DK)
  • Meeting closed 22:06