Minutes/National Council/2021-09-02

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Meeting Minutes
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National Council Meeting 2nd September 2021

  • Start time 20:38 AEST

Agenda

  • Previous minutes
  • Economics and housing livestream debrief (JohnA)
  • NSW Fair Trading update (JohnA)
  • NatSec bill backlash (Miles)
  • Covid lockdown regulation during campaigning (Miles)
  • Merch update (Alex)
  • LQFB webinar (Dave)
  • Young Pirates event debrief (Miles)
  • Electoral campaign pre-planning (Miles/others)
    • NSW candidate SeanP
  • Party negotiations update (Miles/Brandon/Alex/JohnA)

Attendance

  • Miles Whiticker (chair)
  • Alex Jago (minutes)
  • Andrew Downing
  • Roger Whatling
  • John August (until 21:30)
  • David Kennedy
  • Fred Gerner
  • Brandon Selic (from 20:41)

Observers

  • maus
  • Star_Tube (from 21:02)

Minutes

Economics Livestream debrief (John)

  • John, MarkG, thanks to Cameron Murray for coming along
  • Modest turnout
  • Cameron dominated discussion time a bit, ah well - he is the guest
  • Lots of interesting ideas discussed
  • Recordings going up!
  • "Mark made Cameron think" :)
  • The usual tech bugbears at stream start
  • Miles: "focusing on fewer topics might be better going forward"
  • Andrew suggests we should do some policy work against asset inflation - end result of nobody actually being able to afford a house

NSW Fair Trading update

  • John is now the public officer
    • HOORAY
  • Next step: prepare our financial statements and submit them
    • John, Alex, hopefully Mitch
  • "Why are we having to do more votes on the Constitution?" - Andrew
    • Fair Trading really want you to hold one "replace this with that" vote.
  • Also they don't know about recent CAPs
  • Also some things that our constitution should address but presently doesn't
    • Miles to forward his changes identified thus far, Andrew to look over

NatSec bill backlash (Miles)

  • "Identify and Disrupt" Bill has produced a lot of backlash
  • this is the one that says the cops can modify data on your device with an AAT warrant
    • "plant evidence" is a bit of a paraphrasing but it
  • 200+ new Discord members, some of whom are converting to formal members
  • Some promo mutual interference given John's talk last night
  • Miles wants to organise an AMA - John, Brandon, Tania Briese (all 2019 candidates)

Covid vs Campaigning (Miles)

  • We need to prepare for campaigning in lockdown conditions
  • "Have a plan"
  • Need people in each state to assess local conditions
  • We'll need a few contingency plans for different levels (light, medium, heavy)
    • Local bubbles are a possibility, so also need to think about localisation

Campaign pre-planning

  • Sean P is interested in candidacy
    • Younger and enthusiastic
    • "Frustration at the government is an important political driver" - John
    • Miles has been mentoring
      • Crystalised preparation thoughts for Miles
  • Some sense that the election won't happen until we've "beaten Covid"
    • "It's three months from last week, at the exact point all the minor parties get deregistered"
  • It's preselection time coming up...
    • John, Brandon happy to stand again, Roger interested
    • Miles wants to focus his time on national organising, not running his own campaign.
  • "Even without candidates we need to get candidates out and squash the notion that we are not ready to campaign. We are active and energised and we can do this!" - Miles

Inter-party negotiations

  • The 1500 members thing has happened, so us and the cousins are looking at each other
  • No commitments at this stage, but good feelings all around
  • Meeting scheduled for the 19th
  • StarTube asks if observers will be permitted
  • There is an element of confidentiality to the process while we hammer things out but we'll see
  • "For us to join anything or merge or whatever, we need to vote on it as a party anyway" - Alex

Liquid Feedback webinar (Dave Kennedy)

  • We can do 6pm AEST on either Tuesday or Thursday next week
    • Tuesday works for Miles and Andrew 6PM AEST, details TBA
    • Done

Merch Update (Alex)

  • About $25 away from target for the sticker drive
    • Closes on Talk Like a Pirate Day
  • Shirts are basically ready to go, just waiting to get over the line on stickers
    • "I want people to buy stickers" - Alex
    • Consider shirts soft launched
    • White-label dropshipper: Print Bar
    • https://piratepartyau.secure-decoration.com/
    • Todo: DNS as a subdomain, link it from the website, announce in the week leading up to TLAPD

Young Pirates debrief (Miles)

  • Moderate attendance and engagement
  • Minimal in-person attendance, Miles has submitted pizza receipt
  • Went pretty well technically
  • "In hindsight we need to start dropping some money on event ads and getting more professional about getting the word out further in advance." - Miles
  • Video is up :)

General Business

  • Election prep: volunteer and logistics wrangling is always hard
  • Need a better volunteer DB... and volunteers

Motions

  • MOTION: accept the minutes of the previous meeting on August 19th as presented.
    • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Ayes 7 (AJ, AD, MW, RW, DK, FG, JA)
    • Carried 20:40
  • MOTION: close the meeting
    • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Ayes 7 (AJ, AD, MW, RW, DK, FG, BS)
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