Minutes/National Council/2014-10-02

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Agenda

• Previous meeting's minutes
  • https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2014-09-18
• Urgent Platform Amendment notification (Brendan)
  • CFV completed, see motions
• NC website summary reminder (Fletcher)
• Second mail to PPI (Frew)
  • http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/PPIEmail2theexplanation
• Registered Officer/Appointed Officer nomination accepted by AEC
• General Business

Start: 20:19 AEST

End: 21:03 AEST

Attendance

• Brendan Molloy
• Daniel Judge
• Melanie Thomas
• Fletcher Boyd
• Simon Frew
• David Campbell
• Michael Keating

Apologies

• None

Absent

• Ben McGinnes
• Mark Gibbons

Minutes

Previous Meetings Minutes

• https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2014-09-18
  • See Motions

Urgent Platform Amendment notification

• Passed previously via email
  • See Motions
• as a result of the press release, Brendan ended up speaking on Radio Adelaide also did RN Drive on Tuesday

NC website summary reminder

• Add bios here: http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/ncsummary
• Please do asap
  • Brendan hopes to have it done by tonight so we can have the page up, with listing of committees on the website by Monday

Second mail to PPI

• http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/PPIEmail2theexplanation
• Move pdf doc from dropbox to wiki files
  • https://pirateparty.org.au/w/images/f/f7/PPI_online_GA_proposal.pdf
• See Motions

Registered Officer/Appointed Officer nomination accepted by AEC

• AEC has responded to say details have been updated
• Keating to find forms to remove deputies
  • These were for purposes of federal election
• Keating to do returns by the 20th
  • AEC has provided him with the details
  • He has discussed with Ben and lioned him up to help take care of these

General Business

• Abbott has overruled the Parliament House Burka Ban
  • http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-kills-off-parliament-house-burqa-ban-20141002-10pjoh.html

• Scott Ludlam is ramping up the anti-data retention campaign too
  • http://junkee.com/its-time-to-stop-the-governments-data-retention-laws/42651

• jscinoz now working on join form, Brendan has managed to delegate away the remaining work

• Brendan will retire from EFA board in November

• Due to busyness overload Womens WG unfortunately remains on hold

• New design@ email address created

• Fletcher has requested admin access to website (as per last meetings access motion)

• Over 80 new members in the Pay what you want promotion/drive.

Motions

• MOTION: Accept the minutes of 2014-09-18 as written.
  • Put by: Brendan
  • Ayes: 7 (Brendan, Keating, Frew, Mel, DanielJ, David, Fletcher); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

• MOTION: Accept the PPI email as worded.
  • Put by: Brendan
  • Ayes: 7 (Brendan, Fletcher, Keating, David, Frew, Mel, DanielJ); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

• MOTION: [CFV] The National Council exercises their privileges under Article 5.2(2) of the Party Constitution to amend the Civil Liberties policy to include the following line under the section entitled "Remove existing laws which unduly restrict privacy, speech, expression and access to information": "Repeal the aspects of the National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No.1) 2014 that have an unjustifiable impact on civil liberties, due process and the rule of law."
  • Put by: Brendan
  • Ayes: 8 (Fletcher Boyd, Mark Gibbons, Daniel Judge, Simon Frew, Michael Keating, Melanie Thomas, David Campbell, Brendan Molloy); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

• MOTION: Close meeting.
  • Put by: Brendan
  • Ayes: 5 (Brendan, DanielJ, Keating, David, Fletcher); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

Action Items

• Keating to find forms to enact the removal of deputy registered officers
• Keating to do returns by the 20th
• Everyone to ensure Bios are filled out
• Secretariat to update relevant pages