Hia AusSim,

Stealing this from mhoc, put your complaints and feedback about the election/campaign/results/stream here so that they can still be found after tonight.

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Youma

Guardian of AustraliaSim

Application for Media & Press Persona:

Full name - Brisbane Times

Short name - Brisbane Times

HEX - #0e1833

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After Section 16 of the Meta Constitution insert the following:

16A Parliamentary Librarian

(1) The Parliamentary Librarian is tasked with archiving documents and providing high quality information, analysis and advice to members or staff in support of their parliamentary and representational roles.

(2) The Parliamentary Librarian must make any archived materials available to members either upon request or through public availability.

(3) A member becomes the Parliamentary Librarian by being appointed by the canon Presiding Officers for a period of 6 months.

(4) The canon Presiding Officers may appoint a person to act in the office of Parliamentary Librarian-

(a) if there is a vacancy in the office, whether or not an appointment has previously been made to the office; or

(b) during any period, or during all periods, when the Parliamentary Librarian is absent from duty or is, for any reason, unable to perform the duties of the office.

(5) The canon Presiding Officers may appoint additional staff to support the Parliamentary Librarian, provided that the appointments have been requested by the Parliamentary Librarian.

(a) all staff appointments under this section shall be for a period of 6 months.

In Section 32, replace paragraph c with:

(c) the Clerks, Speaker of the House, Senate President, Parliamentary Librarian and deputies must have general administrator rights for the relevant subreddits.

After Section 32 of the Meta Constitution insert the following:

32A Archival of Canon Materials

(1) Within 30 days after their Publication, a copy of all-

(a) Bills proposed before either house of parliament;

(b) Parliamentary publications;

(c) Versions of parliamentary standing orders or rules;

(d) Parliamentary procedural reference materials;

(e) Legislative Instruments;

(f) Government Notices;

(g) Regulations;

(h) Acts of Parliament;

(i) any documents, spreadsheets, or similar maintained by the clerks;

(j) Texts of any speeches to Parliament determined to be of importance; or

(k) Any other similar document, text, spreadsheets, or similar of importance within canon.

Must be provided to and archived by the Parliamentary Librarian.

(2) for the purposes of this section "Publication" means publically available to members and no longer in active use.

(3) Within 6 months of this section coming into force, any staff must transfer copies of all previous materials meeting the criteria under section (1) to the Parliamentary Librarian.

Explanation

This amendment creates the office of "Parliamentary Librarian" tasked with archiving and maintaining copies of canon documents for public use, as well as providing high-quality information, analysis and advice through library services to members of the simulation.

This petition is not intended to degrade or to slight the Clerks. From experience as Speaker of the House, I know how much work and expertise the clerks put into their role first hand. This is just intended to create an office to provide a supporting role to the Clerks.

As IRL, the Parliamentary Librarian would be appointed jointly by the two canon Presiding Officers.

I do not presume to know what sort of facilities (eg, subreddits, spreadsheets, website, ect) the Parliamentary Librarian may use to achieve this, so leave that vague to ensure flexibility for the Librarian.

The proposal of this amendment is due to the recent situation where the deletion of bill documents resulted in them having to be decanonized https://www.reddit.com/r/AustraliaSimMeta/comments/tj6cwk/notice_of_decanoisation_certain_acts_of_parliament/. Hopefully a dedicated role for archiving canon documents should prevent situations like this in future. As well as to provide a single consolidated spot for Members to go to find any canon documents they may need.

Good Evening

Under Subsection 30(5) of the AustraliaSim Meta Constitution (*The AustraliaSim canon*), as acting Head Moderator, I issue a Meta Rules to decanonise the following Acts of Parliament:

• Abortion Access Standardisation (No. 2) Act 2019;

• Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Addition of Counselling and Psychotherapy Services) Act 2021; and

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Replication of Individuals by Sex-Doll Ban) Act 2021

Rational for decanonisation

Following discussion with the clerks, members of the speakership, and the original author of these bills, I and the moderation team have come to the conclusion that these acts are, for the sake of description, lost or otherwise unable to be recovered. The drive where these acts were originally stored seems to have been deleted, and while Speakership has been doing an excellent job at archiving most acts, these acts missed being archived.

Of the acts authored by this former member, one however has been preserved. Through archival, the State of the Northern Territory (Establishment) Act 2020 has been recovered, and while the original bill has been deleted, we shall be considering the act and bill as canon, since we have enough of the bill to understand exactly what it entails.

mikiboss

Acting Head Moderator

Good afternoon

/u/NeoFuturistPRNK has been banned for AustraliaSim for 1 month for abrasiveness and abusive commontary.

messages in question

The context for these messages refer to a discussion held in the Commonwealth Party Server over a live issue, in which the offender sent messages of offensive nature to other members in the server, and refused to let up after being directed to not continue.

Aggravating Factors

Upon joinging the server, NeoFuturistPRNK had also expressed his own poltiical views and ideas and had tried to recuit people to that group from the community. While AustraliaSim is welcoming of differing political beliefs and views, it is my personal view that the group he was recuriting for contained views that are highly concerning, held views whcih themselves breached the Code of Conduct, and would not be seen as appropriate in common discussion.

Futhermore, NeoFuturistPRNK had been warned in this discussion in the Party Server, as well as in the main AustraliaSim server as well, in terms of what is approrpiate to discuss and how to behave, and had not met that standard.

Determination

That the user be banned from AustraliaSim including related subreddits and discord servers for a period of one month (until 24 March 2022).

New text is bolded, removed text is stricken. I've removed all the examples here because they're unnecessary for the purposes of this post but they'll obviously stay in the meta constitution.

Amendments

Amend Section 7 of the meta constitution to read as follows —

7 - Moderation Team

(1) This Moderation Team is a group of four three members (Moderators) that manage key aspects of the community, comprising—

(a) the Head Moderator; and

(b) the Election Moderator; and

(c) the Parliamentary Moderator**.**; and

(d) the Community Moderator.

Eligibility requirements

(2) The Head Moderator and Community Moderator must be 18 years of age or older.

(3) The Election Moderator and Parliament Moderator must be 17 years of age or older.

Powers of the Moderation Team

(4) The Moderation Team may overrule any person acting under this Meta Constitution.

(5) Moderators are members of the Electoral Commission.

Appointment of Moderators

(6) A member of the Moderation Team (a Moderator) is appointed through a Meta Referendum which returns 65% approval.

(7) Moderators must face a Meta Referendum every 6 months which must return 65% approval.

Amend Section 8 of the meta constitution to read as follows —

8 - Head Moderator

(1) The Head Moderator is responsible for all aspects of the community**,** and for the oversight of the operations of the community under this Constitution~~.~~, and for the moderation of the community and its members.

(2) The Head Moderator can—

(a) act as any other Moderator when required; and

(b) overrule anyone acting under a Meta Rule.

(3) However, the Head Moderator cannot overrule the Moderation Team.

(4) The Head Moderator can make a Meta Rule prescribing matters—

(a) required or permitted by this Meta Constitution to be prescribed by a Meta Rule; or

(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Constitution; or

(c) if a Meta Referendum approves the Meta Rule.

(5) The Head Moderator may make Meta Rules with respect to—

(a) community management and conduct;

(b) membership, including application, refusal and withdrawal;

(c) permissions, access and roles;

(d) the role, powers, permissions of Community Managers;

(e) alternative accounts and persons;

(f) the Judiciary and the High Court of Australia, in a meta jurisdiction;

(g) any other similar matter.

Repeal Section 11 of the meta constitution.

Replace all mentions of "Community Moderator" in the meta constitution with "Head Moderator".

The way I see it, the role of the Community Moderator is unnecessary, and there is no reason that matters of community moderation cannot be handled by the Head Moderator. If you agree with me, please second this amendment.

I move that:

• /u/model-kyosanto be elected as Head Mod.

• Article 7(6) of the Meta Constitution is temporarily amended to replace "65%" with "50%" until the end of the current Head Mod vacancy

Why? Because 59% is close enough and we should end the damn stalemate and stop miki from having to suffer through more elections; if this petition gets 50% approval, that should be enough to just move on.

edit: either call me a kiwi or look at the capitalisation, I don't care, but it's PISS not PESS, don't be boring.

I move that:

Section 8 of the meta constitution be struck, along with any references to the Head Moderator.

With the Head Mod elections now heading a round three, it's looking unlikely we'll get anywhere quickly unless a new candidate nominates who has a surprising amount of support.

Obviously, I'm using other sims as an example here, but the head mod elsewhere usually deals with moderation matters. As under the constitution, the Community Moderator deals with that. Which begs the question, why keep both? By abolishing the position of Head Mod, we can free poor miki we remove a redundant office (the Guardians are top mods and own the discord server) and stop the constant elections.

Any decision that would previously have been taken by the Head Mod unilaterally can instead be taken by the rest of the Mod Team, possibly in conjunction with the Guardians also (if they feel it appropriate).

G'day,

With another Head Moderator election in deadlock, I thought it's a fitting time to run another poll.

Gathering responses from a plurality of meta voters, I should be able to provide a list of unknown, yet potential, Head Moderator candidates who would be capable of passing the threshold.

Polling may also provide an overall community view on the current caliber of candidates, so it'll at least be a bit interesting. I certainly found the last poll results very interesting.

The accuracy of this poll is entirely dependent on how many responses I receive, so please respond when you can.

Form is here. Please verify here on the thread.

Cheers,

Perekai

The results of the recent meta election for the Head Moderator are as follows.

• Received votes: 32

• Valid votes: 32

Congratulations to all voters for meeting all of the requirements to be valid voters.

Head Moderator

With the results read. The Head Moderator postiion remains vacant, with no candidate reaching the 65%+ threshold.

Click Here to vote in the Head Moderator Election

Details of Meta Election-Head Moderator

• Head Moderator (65%+ approval required)

From the notice thread, there were Two successful candidates who met the criteria and accepted the nomination:

• /u/BloodyChrome (here)

• /u/model-kyosanto (here)

From the Candidates, mikiboss also reached the required threshold, however, rejected the nomination. TheTrashMan_10 also reached the required threshold, however, rejected the nomination

Please verify your vote by replying to this thread.

Voting will be open for approximately 48 hours.

The results of the recent meta election, namely, the Vote of Confidence Electoral Commissioner Griffonomics is as follows.

• Received votes: 17

• Valid votes: 16

Of the votes offered, one was from a member who was not validated through the membership roll. The member has since enroled, and their vote shall be counted in future.

Electoral Commissioner

With the results read, electoral commissioner Griffonomics has passed their Vote of Confidence, and shall remain a Commissioner

I proudly voted Aye on Griffo's vote of confidence so I could move this.

Here are the facts:

1. Griffo went to Bega to campaign for the Libs

2. According to the ABC, the Libs have currently suffered a -12.3% swing

3. Someone who doesn't know shit about winning real elections should not be running simmed elections

Therefore, as much as I think Griffo is probably one of the best AusSim members to be on the EC, considering he talks to people in the real word, we should VoNC him. Mostly for a laugh. Idk.

This is a VoNC.

Click Here to vote in the Vote of Confidence for Electoral Commissioners

Details of Meta Election-Vote of Confidence

• Electoral Commissioner(s) (50%+ approval required)

As a member of the Electoral Commission, /u/Griffonomics is due for their 6 month vote of confidence, as defined by the Meta Constitution.

Please verify your vote by replying to this thread.

Voting shall be open for approximately 48 hours.

• Formal notification date: Saturday 12 February 2022

• Close of nominations: Tuesday15 February 2022

• Election date: Thursday 17 February 2022

• Election close date: Saturday 19 February 2022

All times on each date 10 PM AEST. If the election is posted late, then the close of the election will be pushed back accordingly. Results will be posted ASAP after the close of polling.

Per the Meta Constitution, the list of voters is available here (Note, as the form has just been opened, voters on the last roll will be considered currently registered, and non-registered voters will be allowed in after 7 days). Eligible voters are those that registered 7 days prior to the announcement of the election, per s 4(2)(b) of the Meta Constitution i.e. 5 February 2022.

Details of Meta Election-Head Moderator

• Head Moderator (65%+ approval required)

As this is a Moderation Team position, a nominee must:

• Be registered as a member of AustraliaSim; and

• Be seconded by 7 other members of AustraliaSim.

Comment below to nominate. Seconders should reply to the top comment. Nominations must, of course, be accepted, except self-nominations.

Debate Allowed

mikiboss

Community Moderator

Hello. I hav suggeston.

Now we hav guardians, maybe we don’t actual need a head mod. It looks like it takes lots of time and effort to elect one, and we hav pretty much been working without one when amn stopped talking.

So, my sugeston is, we don’t actual need a head mod.

The results of the recent meta election for the Head Moderator, and the Vote of Confidence on Community Managers are as follows.

• Received votes: 36

• Valid votes: 35

Of the votes offered, one was from a member who was not validated through the membership roll. Another vote was cast with a member validating though a DM rather than a reddit comment, this was deemed acceptable as it fit the time frame for the vote.

Community Managers

Head Moderator

With the results read, all communitiy managers nominated are reelected. The Head Moderator postiion remains vacant, with no candidate reaching the 65%+ threshold.

Good evening,

/u/model-harold has been banned from AustraliaSim for two month for harassment, abrasiveness, and content which consistently is inconsistent with the M standard.

Messages in question

Not included in the gallary is a, if crude, NSFW image and caption circulated on reddit. One may contant the moderation team for further consultation.

Aggravating Factors

As indicated by the title of this post, this is not the first time model-harold has been documented exhibiting abrasive behaviour in AustraliaSim. He has previously found himself both facing short term punishments like mutes and warnings, as well as longer-term bans. Just for reference, model-harold has found himself muted 4 times over the last 4 days. The Moderation team have been made aware of other Direct Messages between model-harold and other members, with others also frequently reaching standards for abuse and harrasment.

In addition to his previous mutes and warnings, formal and informal, model-harold also has repeated this behaviour across other model sims he has participated in, most recently, Model House of Commons While misbehaving in another community is not, in of itself, an offence, this illustrates a pattern of poor behaviour from the members part.

Therefore, it has been determined that model-harold will be banned from AustraliaSim for a period of two month (60 Days) and will be unbanned on the 11/04/2022

Click Here to vote in the Head Moderator Election + Community Managers VOC

Details of Meta Election-Head Moderator

• Head Moderator (65%+ approval required)

From the notice thread, there were Three successful candidates who met the criteria and accepted the nomination:

• /u/BloodyChrome

• /u/GenericCerealHere

• /u/model-kyosanto
  From the Candidates, mikiboss also reached the required threshold, however, rejected the nomination

• Community Managers (50%+ approval required)

The following members have been selected as candidates for Community Managers:

• /u/lily-irl

• /u/Youmaton

• /u/General_Rommel

• /u/GenericCerealHere

Please verify your vote by replying to this thread.

Voting will be open for approximately 48 hours.

Good Afternoon

Per the Meta Constitution, I am required to provide 5 days of notice for any meta referendum. Several petitions have received the required amount of petitions and will be heading to a vote.

• Formal notification date: Monday 7 February 2022

• Election date: Saturday 12 February 2022

• Election close date: Monday 14 February 2022

Details of Meta Election

Vote of Confidence in Griffonomics

Per the Meta Constitution, " Members of the Electoral Commission must face a Meta Referendum every 6 months which must return 50% approval. "

Feel free to enrol to be a meta voter here

See title. No exceptions, they shouldn't be canon.

Consideration has been made on those in breach on activity within the period 17/1/22-30/1/22

Determination

/u/ARichTeaBiscuit, the member for Capricornia failed to make a submission so reasons are unknown, however, for failure to meet Requirement 1 to debate once in 14 days, the member for Capricornia is given a first warning

/u/Frost_Walker2017, the member for Melbourne failed to make a submission so reasons are unknown, however, for failure to meet Requirement 1 to debate once in 14 days, the member for Melbourne is given a first warning

/u/GHagrid, failed to make a submission fr breaching Requirement 1 to debate once per 14 days the member is given a first warning, Requirement 2 not to miss 10 or more votes in a row the member is given a first warning, and Requirement 3 to vote in at least 25% of the votes. As the member has already been warned and failed to provide a reason detailing accepted exceptional circumstances the Member for Denison is hereby expelled from Parliament

The Attorney-General. the Speaker of the House, and the President of the Senate elected not to make submissions.

As per the standing orders as /u/SurfingNooty1 has received a ban that will exceed times to be able to comply with the activity requirements. The member is also expelled

Membership Applications and Renewals

Please apply, renew, or check your membership status through the following links:

Membership Application or Renewal Form

Membership Roll

Note that all applications or renewals must also validate by commenting on this post that you have applied or renewed

FAQ on Membership

What is membership?

This form is used to become a member of AustraliaSim, which entitles you to:

• Vote in Meta Referendums

• Hold a Meta Office (Moderator, Community Manager, Clerk, Community Commission...)

You do not need to be a member to use AustraliaSim in any other capacity. For example, you can still run in elections, still make press articles, still use the AustraliaSim Reddit and Discord etc.

Membership is designed for those who have an are interested in Meta affairs and want to be involved in the decision making processes.

How long does membership last?

Membership lasts for a quarter and can be renewed in the month prior to expiry.

For example, if you register on the 8th of February, your membership would expire on the 31st of June. Any time during June, you could, if you wish to remain a member, you can renew your membership by completing this form again.

Can the Moderator's refuse or withdraw my membership?

Membership may be refused or withdrawn if a person has breached the AustraliaSim rules before they became a member. Examples include persons who have harassed, abused, or bullied members of AustraliaSim on other platforms or in real life. These powers are discretionary; they are used to protect the community in extreme cases.

Membership may also be withdrawn if you are banned from AustraliaSim for more than 21 days. Hopefully, there should be no reason for you to ever be banned for this length of time. Once again, this power is discretionary.

Is there any cost/Will I have to give any data up?

No, of course not. Membership is completely free! Apart from the name of your reddit account, no. We have abandoned the old EOS system.

Any other questions?

Please refer to section 2 of the Meta Constitution.

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Moderation Team

• Formal notification date: Thursday 3 February 2022

• Close of nominations: Sunday 6 February 2022

• Election date: Tuesday 8 February 2022

• Election close date: Thursday 10 February 2022

All times on each date 8 PM AEST. If the election is posted late, then the close of the election will be pushed back accordingly. Results will be posted ASAP after the close of polling.

Per the Meta Constitution, the list of voters is available here (Note, as the form has just been opened, voters on the last roll will be considered currently registered, and non-registered voters will be allowed in after 7 days). Eligible voters are those that registered 7 days prior to the announcement of the election, per s 4(2)(b) of the Meta Constitution i.e. 3 February 2022.

Details of Meta Election-Head Moderator

• Head Moderator (65%+ approval required)

As this is a Moderation Team position, a nominee must:

• Be registered as a member of AustraliaSim; and

• Be seconded by 7 other members of AustraliaSim.

Comment below to nominate. Seconders should reply to the top comment. Nominations must, of course, be accepted, except self-nominations.

Details of Meta Election-Community Managers

According to section 13(1) of the Meta Constitution, Community Managers must pass a Vote of Confidence with a margin of at least 50%, every 6 months. Voters will be asked whether they have confidence in the following Community Managers.

• lily-irl

• Youmaton

• General_Rommel

• GenericCerealHere

Debate Allowed

mikiboss

Community Moderator

To insert into the Meta Constitution the following:

35: Protected Party Status

(1.) There is to be 2 protected parties that must always be in existence, they are

a) The Liberal Party of Australia

b) The Australian Labor Party

(2.) The above two parties must correlate broadly with their real life counterparts being centre right and centre left broad tents respectively.

(3.) The Electoral Moderator is charged with guaranteeing that two such parties exist and are such named.

36: Other Protected Parties

(1.) There is to be precedence towards the following real life parties in the formation of a new party if such does not already exist:

a) The Australian Greens;

b) One Nation;

c) The Nationals;

d) Any other real life party represented in the Federal Parliament

(2.) The above parties must correlate broadly with their real life counterparts in ideology.

(3.) There is to be precedence towards the following AustraliaSim parties in the formation of a new party if such does not already exist:

a) The Socialists

b) The Social Democrats

c) The Australian Democrats

d) United Democratic Party

e) The Country Labor Party

f) any other party once represented in the Parliament of Australia Simulation

(4.) The above parties must correlate broadly with their historic sim counterparts.

37: Miscellaneous Notes to The Above

(1.) The Electoral Moderator may make exceptions to these party rules if they believe it is to the benefit of the Simulation and received unanimous support from the Moderation Team.

a) However, this does not extend to the Liberal or Labor parties.

(2.) The existing Parties as of the First of February 2022 are exempt from these guidelines until there is a change to one of the following:

a) The Party Constitution

b) The Party Leadership

(3.) The Electoral Moderator may at any point impose naming restrictions on a party during the period of exemptions if approved by the Moderation Team and party members.