Minutes/National Council/2018-12-18

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National Council Meeting December 12th 2018

Start: 20:36 AEDT Finish: 22:51 AEDT

Attendance

• Joe Furi
• Daniel Oakley
• David Read
• Andrew Downing
• Alex Jago
• Miles Whiticker (chair)
• John Wilson (from 20:49, until 22:43)
• Mark Gibbons (from 20:57)

Observers

• Shannon Smith (candidate)

Apologies

• John August (attended from 22:41)

Previous minutes

• https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2018-12-04

Correspondence / Reports / Action Items

• Quandamooka in progress, no report back

• Website Bios

• Ass access PR (Miles) (ugh, why havent we finished this yet)
• Sydney independant candidate (JohnA) (deferred since no JohnA)

• Pirate Nerve Centre covered previous meeting in discussion.
  • TL;DR a small Facebook group for people to post links and rants and such. Because we're all already on FB all the time.

• Uwe Schafer withdrew from consideration as Press Officer.

• Second round of candidate preselections
  • WA voting should close right about now.
    • Alex to update when those reports come in
    • Discussion ensued on whether we should seek any more candidacies and whether/how we can fund them.
    • Eventual motion to put out one final call for candidates in areas which do not currently have candidates.

• Alex Jago to report re website updates

Discussion Items

• Pre-election commitment sought
  • 4WD Queensland point out that there's no national vehicle modification standards, and to make matters worse none of the states recognise each others approvals
  • Letter here.
    • Secretariat todo: pop that on the wiki
  • Commitment sought: acknowledgement of the many issues associated with disparate legislation across states, and a commitment for the up-coming federal election in 2019 to:
    • Amend the federal Motor Vehicle Standards Act to allow “Mutual Recognition” of all individual state engineering, approved certifiers and certification schemes, to be recognised and accepted by all state registration authorities;
    • Establish a National Vehicle Modification and Certification Program for in-service registered passenger vehicles as recommended, to be implemented federally and in parallel with ADRs; and
    • Ensure industry and community engagement is a key basis for the Vehicle Modification Framework.
  • See also recent (17/12/18) email updating the wording to reflect the passage of a new law
  • Andrew and Shannon volunteer to do policy dev on a generalised Repair and Modification policy, which would include the above.

• Pro-cannabis rally (Brisbane, April 2019) (Miles)
  • We talked about this last time, but not while quorate

• Email from Jaimy Lancaster at Aus Radio Network regarding trad-media stuff
  • Miles to talk to JL, get something resembling a quote.

• Ad spend approval/planning (AlexJ)
  • Background: a lot of people haven't renewed their membership in the last few months, so we need to do another membership push
  • Further background: I've taken the party FB account in hand and have been posting regularly - we're averaging 1-2K impressions per post, which is alright but not amazing
  • idea: buy some search ads for policy keywords
    • copyright, privacy, surveillance, video games, memes, technology, basic income, job guarantee, "assistance and access bill", "aabill", "yellow vest", "pirate party"
  • and some display ads on things like fandom sites

Motions

• MOTION: Accept the minutes of the previous meeting on 4th December 2018 as presented.
  • Put by: Alex Jago
  • Ayes: 5 (MW, AJ, JF, AD, DR) ; Abstain: 1 (DO); Nays: 0.
  • Motion passed at 20:43 AEDT.

• MOTION: That the NC puts out another call for 2019 election candidates in all areas not currently running candidates in upper and lower house districts.
  • Put by: Miles Whiticker
  • Ayes: 6 (MW, AJ, AD, DR, MG); Abstain 1 (JF); Nays: 0
  • Motion passed at 21:41 AEDT.

• MOTION: close the meeting.
  • Put by: Miles Whiticker
  • Ayes: 6 (MW, AJ, AD, MG, DR, JA); Abstain: 0; Nays: 0.
  • Motion passed at 22:51 AEDT.