Minutes/National Council/2019-05-28

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National Council Meeting 28th May 2019

Start: 20:35

Finish: 22:45

Agenda

• Previous Minutes
• Election wrapup
• Congress
• General Business
  • Sara as Press Officer
  • reimburse Daniel Judge for Pozible postage
  • Using Discord voice for future NC meetings
  • Reminder about meetings this weekend

Attendance

• Alex Jago
• Miles Whiticker
• David Read
• John August
• Mark Gibbons
• Daniel Oakley
• Bryn Busai (DRC / Congress)

Apologies

None

Absentees

None

Observers

• Sara Joyce (NSW candidate, Press Officer applicant)
• Laura Killian

Previous Minutes

• https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2019-04-30

Discussion Items

Election Wrap-up

• ANU election survey
  • "incredibly low on my list of priorities" - Miles

• Flyers to national archives
  • NSW is on it
  • Other states, less so

• Policy review on pledges
  • Requests received by John August and his responses:
  • https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/Requests

Congress

• Bryn reports that we can get a $10/hour meeting room available all of the 20th/21st, but only from 12:30 to 6pm on the Saturday of the 27th/28th
  • https://www.westtorrens.sa.gov.au/CWT/content/Community/Plympton_Community_Centre
• Alternatively, there's one for $18/h in the CBD - https://www.cityofadelaide.com.au/your-community/community-development/community-centres/box-factory-community-centre
• https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/ppau_congress_2019_planning
• "I want the announcement email to go out on Friday" - Alex
  • "So I guess I'm calling places tomorrow" - also AlexJ
• To be finalised over email vote Wednesday night

General Business

• Sara to Press Officer
  • See motions

• Daniel Judge reimbursement
  • Currently at $179, approved up to $220 to account for a few late responses

• NC meetings to Discord (Miles)
  • MW: "we have obviously ran the election committee meetings in discord voice, which were fortnightly and then weekly for the past several months"
  • MW: "feedback from all candidates was strongly positive once they had got the hang of it"
  • AJ: "as usual, everything which is to be minuted needs to be typed"
  • JA: notes issues with audio

Motions

• MOTION: Approve the minutes of the previous meeting of 30th April 2019 as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2019-04-30
  • Put by: Alex Jago
  • Ayes: 5 (JA, DO, AJ, MW, MG); Abstains 1 (DR); Nays 0
  • Motion passed at 20:55

• MOTION: appoint Sara Joyce as Press Officer
  • Put by: Alex Jago
  • Ayes: 6 (JA, DO, AJ, MW, MG, DR); Abstains 0; Nays 0
  • Motion passed at 21:56

• MOTION: reimburse Daniel Judge up to $220 for shipping costs for T-Shirts and merchandise during the 2019 Australian federal election
  • Put by: Miles Whiticker
  • Ayes: 5 (JA, DO, AJ, MW, MG); Abstains 0; Nays 0
  • Motion passed at 22:13

• MOTION: National Council meetings shall switch from IRC to Discord voice + text for the remainder of this term, with fallback to (a) Discord text chat only (b) PirateIRC text chat. All voting and motion to always be done over text chat.
  • Put by Miles Whiticker / Alex Jago
  • Ayes: 6 (JA, AJ, MW, DO, DR, MG); Abstains 0; Nays 0
  • Motion passed at 22:34

• MOTION: close the meeting
  • Put by: Alex Jago
  • Ayes: 6 (JA, AJ, MW, DO, DR, MG); Abstains 0; Nays 0
  • Motion passed; meeting closed at 22:45