Minutes/National Council/2016-03-02

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Meeting Minutes
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Agenda



Start: 20:39 AEST
End: 22:30 AEST

Attendance

National Council

  • Simon Frew
  • Daniel Judge
  • Michael Keating
  • Mark Gibbons
  • Fletcher Boyd
  • Peter Fulton
  • David Crafti
  • Thomas Randle

Apologies

  • Ben McGinnes

Minutes

Previous meeting's minutes

Electoral Reform

  • This is happening
  • will change things with the AfP
  • Makes the odds of us getting elected any time soon much lower
  • Our Submission was great
  • the Greens and Libs ended up shutting down the inquiry because it was inconvenient
  • the JSCEM report was obviously largely pre-written
  • could mean a renewed focus on state politics and state level registration
    • we should probably run on the Fed election in the states where we think we could get state rego & use it as a way to raise profile
  • Some subtle low key feelers for candidate nominations have gone out, but nothing yet.
    • Will need to explicitly call for candidates soon
  • Ludlam was given our submission to JSCEM
  • Greens agreed to BTL in a party room meeting it seems
  • Overall issue may harm Green image in long term


Greens meeting report back

  • Simon Frew, Mark Gibbons and Daniel Judge met with Greens representatives regarding our concerns over electoral reform
  • Mostly platitudes to try and placate us
    • implication that they were happy to meet with us due to our less combatative response to electoral reform moves
  • Pointed out they kept member audit at 500 rather than 1500
  • They seem to think reforms wont benefit coalition too much, nor be too much of a barrier to legit minors.
  • The deal with Libs seemed pretty much set in stone. Their minds made up.
    • 'we're not going to vote against something that's been our policy for 10 years'
    • They do seem to be under a fair amount of pressure from other elements on the left, but reforms will entrench them as the main crossbench so in their benefit.
    • 'its a turf war justified with preachy rhetoric'

TPP/Website Blocking Strategy Meeting report

  • Basically, people thought doing a good sub to the JSCOT review was the best thing we could do for the TPP
    • If there is time we should put up pointers for others to do their own subs - try to encourage as many people to send in their thoughts as possible
  • With the website blocking cases, we should put out our guide on how to get around any blocks put in place by ISPs
  • Idea of a DIY guide for people to do submissions is well liked
    • just needs to be sufficiently different so they don't all look the same
  • We need people putting in time to gathering info for the TPP sub
    • And if possible, that info going up for everyone to pilfer to bombard JSCOT
  • Pad or wiki. maybe pad to start, compile into wiki to share when ready

PO Box Renewal

  • maybe best to wait tiol mark gets back for this one
    • just have the renewal notice for the PO Box
    • we save $5 if paid by 31 March

Investigate how to convert the organisation from a NSW incorporated association to a Federal corporation

  • we need to do this
  • minimum requirements of two board members from NSW makes NSW rego untenable
    • all other states have an equivalent rule
    • Thereofrm only option is federal corp
  • the investigation was insofar as what requirements to changing the constitution there are
    • whether we would have one constitution for the limited corporation and another for the party management itself
    • which me might if 80% of the constitution became legalistic bullshit that had no relevance to the Party as an organ
    • and the final aspect: reporting requirements. cost, etc
  • How about a constitutional amendment that in the event that there aren't two NC members from NSW, then some resident(s) can be appointed with limited council voting rights?
    • Then we can stick with the NSW incorporated association.
    • Note, this doesn't legally work as they have to have equal power
  • David Crafti to investigate this issue
  • we need to know:
    • What constitution changes/reqs there are for fed corp migration
    • What the motions at the next Congress need to be to create a new legal entity and move the NC over to it
  • timeline is congress

Raisely

  • Referred to MarkGs email
    • Raisely better targeted to ongoing donation campaigns rather than one-off specific goal fundraising drives
      • Doesn't really have functionality for award levels etc - if we wanted that we'd probably have to pay them to develop it if not a simple customisation
    • Raisely would primarily be a donation portal rather than specific item crowdfund drives
    • Raisely option would be best suited to create something like a "pirate party election fund" and then someone at a state level could independently spin off their own campaign to market differently but the money goes to us
      • so you could make mini campaigns on all sorts of things and the money all goes into a common bucket
      • it's good for general fundraising
    • Open ended ongoing campaigns, which could suit ongoing development enhancements to the MemberDB
      • but pozible etc could be better for memberDB initial goal raising
    • it looks like something good as a general campaign/donation tool but isnt a Pozible-style replacement
  • it's a fundraising management tool.
    • you create a broad campaign and people pledge things to the overall campaign
  • Suggestion made to look into chuffed.org as an alternative to pozible for cheaper rates?

MemberDB and AfP meeting

  • Brendan will also attend AfP meeting and tak on member DB
  • Project-M (memberDB) has been dubbed "Collectiva"
    • spinning it off as a community open source project which will get all of the feed-in
    • Brendan working on code right now

Etsy Store

  • Mark will ensure emails for Etsy orders make their way to DanielJ
  • First order has been posted off
    • DanielJ will likely do postage reimbursements in lots rather than piecemeal
  • Mark will look into banner image etc to piratify the store a bit more.

Name Change Proposal

  • only mentioned in NC meeting to acknowledge existence of discussion
    • name change should be party-wide debate and decision, not an NC driven thing, but facilitated where needed.
    • individual NC members can engage in debate, rather than the NC as a body
  • Has generated most traffic ever on discuss
  • Brendans tweet got RT'd widely and cause much notifications and European parties etc are aware of the discussion and reading the post

General Business

  • none

Motions

  • MOTION: Accept Minutes for 2016-02-17 as presented
    • Put by: Frew
      • Ayes: 7 (Frew, DanielJ, CAPT-Irrelevant, Keating_, MarkG, Fletcher, dcrafti); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Result: Motion carries.
  • MOTION: Close the meeting forever
    • Put by: Frew
      • Ayes: 5 (DanielJ, Keating_, Frew, dcrafti, CAPT-Irrelevant); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Result: Motion carries.
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