Minutes/National Council/2023-07-06

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Meeting Minutes
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National Council Meeting 2023-07-06 Start: 21:30 AEST

Agenda

Attendance

  • Miles Whiticker (chair)
  • Alex Jago (minutes)
  • Michael George
  • David "Satch" Kennedy
  • John August

Apologies

Absentees

Observers

  • Adam Woodings (WA Senate 2022)
  • milspec


Correspondence, reports, and action items completed

Fusion Updates

  • A VIP guest at the Fusion monthly members meeting yesterday!
    • Enthusiastic, supportive, offered feedback.
    • Some critique of "deep ecology" from a traditional eco-feminist perspective.
  • Visioning process stage 1 complete, stage 2 mostly complete.
    • There's value in doing the process; achieving consensus remains an active effort.
  • Adam: where can Pirates show up and get involved?
    • Visioning and PDC opening up (coming out of closed beta)
  • Member drive is nominally over, needs a retrospective

Discussion items

Press release defaults update

  • Background: we put out a PR, it was pointed out that the PR doesn't mention anything about Fusion
  • Alex offered to develop some stock wording to the purpose for future PRs
  • At a minimum, state "Pirate Party Australia is a founding branch of FUSION: Science, Pirate, Secular, Climate Emergency."
    • This can go in the footer.
  • Semi-optional second sentence: "Fusion's platform draws on the expertise of each of its constituent branches."
  • Third sentence:
    • "For more information about Fusion, visit fusionparty.org.au"


National Congress organisation

  • Asked Bryn to help with stream
  • Standard reminder that nominations are in fact open
  • There's a reminder email that needs sending ("two weeks to go")
  • Milspec has done a large amount of work on an updated tax and welfare policy
    • AJ to help drafting the motion and wikifying the policy proposal
    • Anticipated process of using floor motions to include (or exclude) specific sections, rather than putting exponentially many mutually-exclusive amendment proposals
  • Jay has added the motion to rejoin PPI
    • todo: pre-announced rationale
  • Alex had intended to put a CAP to enable membership database merger, but outright forgot
  • Branch rep: currently listed as a separate officer position, but we could adopt a by-law to just make it be "the national council, in this order of choice."

General Business

Actions going forward

  • Congress two-weeks reminder email (Alex, weekend)
    • Motions
    • Reminder to nominate

Motions

  • MOTION: accept the minutes of the previous meeting on 25th May and also the attempted meeting on 8th June.
    • Put by: Alex Jago
    • Ayes 4 (AJ, MG, JA, MW)
    • Abstain 1 (DK)
    • Motion carried 21:42
  • MOTION: adopt the following as By-law 2023-01: "A member of the National Council shall serve as the Fusion Branch Representative, with the following order of preference: President, Secretary, Treasurer, Deputy President, Deputy Secretary, Deputy Treasurer, Councillors in order of election."
    • Ayes 5 (MW, AJ, DK, MG, JA)
    • Carried 23:15
  • MOTION: close the meeting.
    • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Ayes 5 (MW, MG, AJ, DK, AJ)
    • Carried 23:16
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