Minutes/National Council/2021-09-30

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Meeting Minutes
This document is a record of a meeting. Do not edit this document without contacting the relevant group first.


National Council Meeting 30th September 2021 Scheduled start time: 20:30 AEST

Attendees

National Council

  • Alex Jago
  • Brandon Selic
  • Roger Whatling
  • Miles Whiticker
  • John August
  • Dave "Satch" Kennedy
  • Fred Gerner
  • Andrew Downing
  • Mitchel Curnoe

Members and Observers

  • Bryn "Mandrke" Busai
  • milspec (from 20:55)
  • Star_Tube (from 20:55)

Guests

  • Woden's Day (US Pirates)

Agenda

  • Call to order
  • Formally welcome guests (Science/Secular/VotePlanet/USPP)
  • Previous minutes (Alex)

General items (reports, announcements, upcoming events etc)

  • Membership update (Alex)
    • Member phonebanking campaign
  • Upcoming PDC meetings... Thurs 7th (foreign policy), Sun 10th (general committee) (Andrew/Mitch)
  • PPUS livestream report back (Miles)
  • Reddit AMA reportback (Miles/John/Andrew)
    • Followup questions: John's have been posted, Brandon are WIP, Tania ??
  • Bilateral outreach reports (Roger/Brandon/Andrew/Dave)
  • Community meeting in the next month (Miles)
    • Merger/affiliation negotiations status
    • Final final final call for election candidates and volunteers
    • General strategy discussion
  • Emergency National Congress November 13th/14th (Miles/Alex)
    • Merger and/or affiliation
    • NSW Fair Trading CAPs
    • Midyear policy meeting
    • Candidate endorsement?

Action Items (medium/high priority, decisions required)

  • PPI report presentation (Miles)
  • Drew poll response (MIles)

Discussion Items (low priority, no decisions required)

Minutes

Previous Minutes

Membership update & phone banking

  • Outflow currently exceeds inflow, because people forget to renew
    • Brandon, Fred, Miles, Mitch, Andrew volunteer, thank you
  • Alex details process: "Just give me hard no's and I'll mark them as post-hoc resignation"

PDC and Foreign meeting upcoming

  • it's happening .gif
  • PDC: Next Thursday 7th
    • Working group leaders encouraged to have something ready to present
  • Foreign Policy: Sunday 10th
    • Mitch and JayS leading

PPAU/USPP report back

  • Not many viewers but Miles was happy with it
    • "I haven't actually done any public speaking about US/Australia for *ages*"
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQO4wlTEtZI when it's uploaded
    • Unfortunately Rose Klein couldn't make it but Mitch Davilo did
    • Thanks to people who gave conversational pointers

/r/technology AMA

  • Still pinned!
  • Solid promo and interest and best of all it cost us $0
  • Thanks to John, Brandon and Tania for participating and John for answering followups
  • John and Brandon think it went well
  • Brandon to answer his followups tomorrow
  • /r/AustralianPolitics up next
  • Andrew: the brains trust in the back end was a great example of organisation

Bilateral outreach reports

  • John August (Secular Party): positive to neutral response
    • AndrewD also reached out to Ian to invite him along to Fridays, but no response
    • John to follow up
  • Fred Gerner (Science Party): Zahar's keen to come along to 3 Drunk Pirates, so that's nice
    • Brandon has spoken to Drew W
  • Miles: "I have been fighting hard to make it clear that Pirate identity will continue despite any merger. We have a place here and globally."

Community meeting

  • Miles: "I want to hold an informal full-party assembly. Updates, discussions, informal polling, strategy discussions, feedback, apprehension corrections."
  • In particular: status negotiation, another call for candidates, and a strategy discussion
    • We don't have a star/lead candidate per se, but Brandon, John, Roger, Dave all willing

Extraordinary National Congress

  • A number of things need an extraordinary National Congress, in particular the CAPs that we'll need to make Fair Trading happy and for merger things
  • "The most successful Pirate Parties in Europe are all part of coalitions"
  • Earliest possible date 13th/14th November if we get notice out on Saturday October 2nd
    • Yes, it will be on a weekend, don't panic
  • Timing trickiness
    • need 28 days' notice for proposals, so we need to be sure
    • and of course 42 days notice overall
  • Expect a CFV in the next week or so
  • Also a Policy Meeting
  • Some preselection also to occur here: we should be ready to go despite anything

PPI Report Presentation

  • Mitch has been looking at PPI, they're above-board financially
  • Jay Stephens has been talking to their Board, happy that they've resolved their previous issues
  • IR Cttee will continue to engage and send Observer-level delegates to their upcoming meetings

Drew W poll response

  • Miles disagrees with the premise and validity of the poll
  • Andrew raises that the view of the NC will be what gets put to the members
  • "Let's just not assume this is a representation of the members, because it isn't"

Volunteer Code of Conduct

Motions

  • MOTION: accept minutes from previous meeting.
    • Put by: Miles Whiticker
    • Carried unanimously at 20:35
  • MOTION: transmute the meeting to the cross-party meeting.
    • Put by: Alex Jago
    • Carried unanimously at 21:30
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