Minutes/National Council/2020-08-04

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National Council Meeting Tuesday 4th August

Opened at 20:35; closed at 21:42.

Agenda

• Previous meeting minutes: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2020-07-21 (Previous NC)
• Handover (Miles + Alex)
• Acting deputy treasurer delegation (Miles)
• For noting: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Standards/National_Council/Standing_Orders
• Voting (Alex) (As in, post Congress voting)
• By-elections for Dep T + S (Alex + Miles)
• Congress announcement email (Alex)
  • https://emailpad.pirateparty.org.au/load/congress-2020-voting
• Future NC meetings - date, time (Miles)
• General business

Attendance

• Miles Whiticker, President
• Alex Jago, Secretary
• John August, Treasurer
• Phillip "Parduss" Richards, Councillor
• Fred Gerner, Councillor
• Brandon Selic, Deputy President (from 20:50)
• David "twisty" Read, outgoing Councillor
• Bryn "mandrke" Busai, DRC
• maus (member) (from 21:07)

Apologies

• Dave Kennedy (Councillor)

Minutes

Previous meeting

• https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2020-07-21
• Approved, See motions

Handover

• PR and FG set up with email accounts, JA never lost his.
• Miles invites someone to consider acting as Deputy Secretary/Treasurer
• Miles goes over day to day NC: responsible for approving press releases and media. NC is the first and last point of call for things.
• Miles: "I would like to have something going out every fortnight"
• Note: PRs and graphics have a two-NC approval rule.
• Alex describes AEC authorisation requirements
• Miles describes PiratePad and EmailPad details
• Quick overview of the press release process
  • see https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Press_Release_Guide
• Standing orders do exist; see https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Standards/National_Council/Standing_Orders
• Fred pointed at the PPAU GitHub
• Everyone pointed at the Discussion Forum
• Alex to coordinate with John about Public Officer and Treasury things

Post Congress voting

• Start at 00:01 Wednesday
• Close at least a week later, suggest 23:59 Sat 14th.
• Ready to go

By-elections

• "21 days from the date of resignation" best matches "21 days after Congress"
• By-election meeting then set for Sunday 16th
• Nominations open ASAP and close at start of the meeting

Future NC meetings

• past two years have had 20:30 AEST/AEDT (always 8:30pm Sydney time)
• Thursday nights also acceptable

General Business

• John notes recent achievements
  • UBI article is back up: https://www.neweconomy.org.au/journal/issues/vol2/iss3/the-case-for-a-guaranteed-basic-income/
  • Giving a talk on IP at Syd Mechanics' School of Arts: https://smsa.org.au/events/event/intellectual-property-john-august/
  • Got in touch with Clive. He's waiting on more energy in the party before he'll stand again

Motions

• MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous NC meeting on July 21st as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2020-07-21
  • Put by: Alex Jago
  • Ayes: (AJ, MW, DR, BS); Nay 0; Abstain 2 (FG, PR)

• MOTION: Change NC meetings to Thursday nights at 20:30 Sydney time, with the next meeting being 20th August.
  • Put by: Miles Whiticker
  • Ayes: 6 (AJ, MW, PR. FG, JA, BS)
  • Motion carried 21:32

• MOTION: close the meeting
  • Put by: Miles Whiticker
  • Ayes: 6 (MW, AJ, FG, BS, PR, JA)
  • Motion carried 21:42; meeting closed