Minutes of National Council
Pax Christi Australia
Minutes of First Meeting of National Council. (by phone)
27 November 2006
Taking Part: Maggie Galley (Chair) Claude Moskovitz, Jo Camilleri, Claire Cooke, Harry Kerr, Pancras Jordan,
1. Role Of National Council: It was agreed that the purpose of the National Council is to
Facilitate communication and interaction between branches,
Facilitate and initiate action as a national movement
Facilitate care of and oversight of branches and “lone members”
Facilitate formation of new branches,
Facilitate communication and interaction with the Asia Pacific Region and with Pax Christi International
Represent Pax Christi Australia to the wider Australian Community.
2. Role of Members of National Council:
To act as points of connection between council and branches and between branches
Take responsibility for implementing council decisions.
Facilitate communication within council
Communicates minutes and decisions to members.
3. It was agreed that we accept Joe’s proposal for the roles of president and Secretary.
(The most important agenda item, as I see it, is to clarify what we see as the role of NATIONAL PRESIDENT and NATIONAL SECRETARY. This was not done either at this year's conference, or at the one that framed our present constitution. As I see it, these two roles are critical to the development of a properly functioning national framework.
Let me share with you a couple of thoughts.
The secretary's role is perhaps the more important of the two in this sense:
whoever assumes this role is the one who will keep the wheels turning of our fledgling National Council. It requires someone who is good at consulting, good at writing minutes, circulating them, and good at ensuring that we have a workable system of consultation. It requires reliability, punctuality (if something important needs doing, it is done by the due date, not a few days or a few weeks later) and a good deal of "stick-at-it-ness", especially in the formative first year or two, when we are trying to develop workable mechanisms
of consultation and decision-making.
The President's role is to conduct the external relations of the Pax Christi movement - someone who can be the public face of the movement (speak with media- if and when we have something useful to say), who represents the movement at significant national forums or gatherings, who liaises with Pax Christi International, and occasionally with other International Presidents.)
4 Joe Camilleri accepted Nomination for National President of Pax Christi Australia for at least twelve months.
5 Joe accepted nomination on condition that each branch provided the infrastructure and to take responsibility for communicating statements, decisions and information to the media.
6 Maggie Galley accepted nomination to act as National Secretary.
7 Priorities for State Branches
Queensland: Priority to be given to monitoring events in Sri Lanka, working with the Justice and Peace Commission and the Brisbane Peace Network
Interfaith dialogue: to become more involved with Northwest Interfaith Group and other interfaith networks.
New South Wales: Priorities would be West Papua and per4ecution of the Falun Gong: involvement in campaign to boycott the Beijing Olympics.
8 Victoria: To actively participate in and be the Melbourne face of the Alternatives to Empire project, a partnership between Pax Christi, the Uniting Church (Victorian Synod) and Movement for a Just World., (Kuala Lumpur)
To continue to develop interfaith contacts, to continue to support and participate in the Jewish Christian Muslim Association, to support and participate in the work of the Dialogue Centre ( La Trobe University) of which PXVic is a sponsor.
To continue to create awareness of the threat to human rights in Australia form the anti terror legislation particularly among the church communities and to hold a conference during 2007.
To offer a support to our Japanese partners in the campaign to change the no-war provisions in the Japanese constitution.
9 Future meetings.
It was agreed that the council will meet monthly February-June 2007 and then review frequency. Maggie to circulate dated for a February meeting.
Harry Kerr 5/12/2006
Minutes of First Meeting of National Council. (by phone)
27 November 2006
Taking Part: Maggie Galley (Chair) Claude Moskovitz, Jo Camilleri, Claire Cooke, Harry Kerr, Pancras Jordan,
1. Role Of National Council: It was agreed that the purpose of the National Council is to
Facilitate communication and interaction between branches,
Facilitate and initiate action as a national movement
Facilitate care of and oversight of branches and “lone members”
Facilitate formation of new branches,
Facilitate communication and interaction with the Asia Pacific Region and with Pax Christi International
Represent Pax Christi Australia to the wider Australian Community.
2. Role of Members of National Council:
To act as points of connection between council and branches and between branches
Take responsibility for implementing council decisions.
Facilitate communication within council
Communicates minutes and decisions to members.
3. It was agreed that we accept Joe’s proposal for the roles of president and Secretary.
(The most important agenda item, as I see it, is to clarify what we see as the role of NATIONAL PRESIDENT and NATIONAL SECRETARY. This was not done either at this year's conference, or at the one that framed our present constitution. As I see it, these two roles are critical to the development of a properly functioning national framework.
Let me share with you a couple of thoughts.
The secretary's role is perhaps the more important of the two in this sense:
whoever assumes this role is the one who will keep the wheels turning of our fledgling National Council. It requires someone who is good at consulting, good at writing minutes, circulating them, and good at ensuring that we have a workable system of consultation. It requires reliability, punctuality (if something important needs doing, it is done by the due date, not a few days or a few weeks later) and a good deal of "stick-at-it-ness", especially in the formative first year or two, when we are trying to develop workable mechanisms
of consultation and decision-making.
The President's role is to conduct the external relations of the Pax Christi movement - someone who can be the public face of the movement (speak with media- if and when we have something useful to say), who represents the movement at significant national forums or gatherings, who liaises with Pax Christi International, and occasionally with other International Presidents.)
4 Joe Camilleri accepted Nomination for National President of Pax Christi Australia for at least twelve months.
5 Joe accepted nomination on condition that each branch provided the infrastructure and to take responsibility for communicating statements, decisions and information to the media.
6 Maggie Galley accepted nomination to act as National Secretary.
7 Priorities for State Branches
Queensland: Priority to be given to monitoring events in Sri Lanka, working with the Justice and Peace Commission and the Brisbane Peace Network
Interfaith dialogue: to become more involved with Northwest Interfaith Group and other interfaith networks.
New South Wales: Priorities would be West Papua and per4ecution of the Falun Gong: involvement in campaign to boycott the Beijing Olympics.
8 Victoria: To actively participate in and be the Melbourne face of the Alternatives to Empire project, a partnership between Pax Christi, the Uniting Church (Victorian Synod) and Movement for a Just World., (Kuala Lumpur)
To continue to develop interfaith contacts, to continue to support and participate in the Jewish Christian Muslim Association, to support and participate in the work of the Dialogue Centre ( La Trobe University) of which PXVic is a sponsor.
To continue to create awareness of the threat to human rights in Australia form the anti terror legislation particularly among the church communities and to hold a conference during 2007.
To offer a support to our Japanese partners in the campaign to change the no-war provisions in the Japanese constitution.
9 Future meetings.
It was agreed that the council will meet monthly February-June 2007 and then review frequency. Maggie to circulate dated for a February meeting.
Harry Kerr 5/12/2006
posted by Pax Christi @ Wednesday, December 06, 2006
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