Minutes/National Council/2019-02-05

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National Council Meeting 5th February 2019

Start: 21:00 AEDT (19:30 AEST)

Finish: 22:16 AEDT

Agenda

• Prev Minutes
• Jan 27th candidate phone linkup report (Miles) (deferred from the 29th)
• EU automated algorithms expert panel (Miles) (deferred from the 29th)
• Proxies and Constitutional compliance discussion
• Re-running the fundraiser target vote, this time with quorum
• #AABill amendments submission
• Discussion: merits of changes to National Council composition (adding Councillors) (deferred)

Attendance

• Alex Jago
• John August
• Miles Whiticker
• John Wilson
• Joe Furi
• Mark Gibbons

Observers

• Brandon Selic (candidate)

Apologies

• Andrew Downing
• David Read (because the meeting took so long to start)

Absentees

• Daniel Oakley

Previous Minutes

• https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2019-01-29

Minutes

Pre-start discussion - Yellow Vest movement

• JW has been following local happenings
  • organisation is a mess
  • on a related note there's very little ideological direction beyond dissatisfaction with the current system

Jan 27th candidate phone linkup report

• (Miles) (deferred from the 29th)
• read-only agenda/minutes pad: https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/r.0a7695a27f7c97da1efe99c7a7bf7986
• Brandon asks about media budget
• todo: more centralised SocMed strategy

EU automated algorithms expert panel

• (Miles) (deferred from the 29th)
• Monique Mann offered to work with us on a related PR
• Miles is coordinating
• JohnA offers to do a radio show interview with Dr Mann (12-2pm on Tuesdays, AEDT)

Proxies and Constitutional compliance discussion

• https://pirateparty.org.au/constitution/#part-iii-3.1(2) precludes proxies
• Miles to draft an amendment. In June. When we have time to think about this.

Crowdfunding

• Re-running the fundraiser target vote, this time with quorum
  • See minutes
• and allocating people to tasks
  • Pozible setup
    • Will need IT to figure out whatever email address we used to sign up.
  • SocMed and other promotion
  • Shipping and handling
• Miles to head up WG

#AABill amendments submission

• and supp PR
• https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/aabill-sub-feb-2019
• request for help writing it

Motions

• Motion: Accept the minutes of the previous meeting on 2019-01-29
  • Put by: Miles Whiticker
  • Ayes: 6 (MW, AJ, JF, JW, JA, MG)
  • Motion carried.

• Motion: That the two rounds of 2019 election crowdfunding shall set a $10,000 target, unless later amended by NC
  • Re-put by: Alex Jago
  • Ayes: MW, AJ, JF, JW, MG, JA
  • Motion carried at 21:41

• Motion: close the meeting
  • Put by: general agreement
  • Ayes: 6 (MW, AJ, JF, JW, JA, MG)
  • Motion carried at 22:16; meeting closed.