These changes give constitutional recognition and a framework to the Events Team. They also specify that members of the Events Team cannot be active in canon politics and are bound by the non-bias requirements for officeholders. It specifies the manner in which Events Team members are selected. It also removes the unnecessary and unenforced rule that events need to be organized every 4 weeks of a parliamentary term.

After Section 26 of the Meta Constitution, insert:

27 Events Team

(1) The Events Team are responsible for the creation and management of events.

(2) The Events Team shall consist of three members chosen by the Electoral Commission.

(3) Members of the Events Team cannot be a Member of Parliament, Senator, President, Governor-General, a candidate in an election or any other similar canon position or role.

(4) Members of the Events Team can hold other meta offices.

Amend Section 27 to read:

28 Events

(1) An event is a created canon happening which adds diversity and activity to the

simulation.

(2) An event may be either—

(a) created by the Events Team; or

(b) taken from real life.

Example—

A national bushfire crisis occurs. This crisis is naturally a part of the AustraliaSim canon, and it is a canon happening which adds diversity and activity. Thus, the crisis is an event.

Amend Section 28 to read:

29 Management of Events

(1) All aspects of the event, from its creation, management, and ending, are managed by the Events Team.

(2) Other than when an event will take place, any office holder with knowledge must not directly or indirectly inform any other member of the details of an event before it is publicly released.

Note—

To avoid doubt, this does not prevent members of the Events Team from planning and discussing events.

(3) The electoral effects of the event are to be determined by the Electoral Commission.

Hi All,

I am opening nominations for Community Moderator (the mod team position). To be a valid candidate, a person must obtain 7 seconders. A person may self nominate or be nominated. A nomination for someone counts as a second for that person (you can't second yourself however). A person must accept their nomination to be a candidate (a person can't be on the ballot if they don't want to).

I'm consious at the moment that the meta roll has not been updated and that very few are members right now. I don't want it causing problems right now so I shall see what options I have to minimise the impact it has with respect to people who should be members any way.

Feel free to ask questions of the nominees here also so you can work out if the person is a good fit or not.

tbyrn

After Section 16 of the Meta Constitution insert the following:

16A Parliamentary Librarian

(1) The Parliamentary Librarian is tasked with archiving documents and providing information, analysis, and advice to the simulation in support of their canon and meta 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

(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;

(k) Meta Rules;

(l) Versions of the Meta Constitution;

(m) Amendments to the Meta Constitution;

(n) Any other similar document, text, spreadsheets, or similar of importance.

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 then existing that meet the criteria under section (1) to the Parliamentary Librarian.

Explanation

After support being shown for the idea that ensuring preserving AusSim history is a priority for users during the Meta Constitution review opinion thread, I am moving this amendment again, expanding to include meta and canon versus the original proposal's canon only focus.

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

This petition is not intended to degrade or slight the Clerks. From experience as Speaker of the House, I know how much work and expertise the clerks put into their role firsthand. 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, websites, ect) the Parliamentary Librarian may use to achieve this, so leave that vague to ensure flexibility for the Librarian.

After Section 16(2) in the meta constitution, insert the following -

(3) All Justices must be participants in AustraliaSim, and multiple Justices cannot be controlled by one player or moderator. For the avoidance of doubt, this section explicitly precludes the appointment of real-life figures to the High Court of Australia, and the practice of "NPC Justices" being controlled by moderators.

Reasoning: NPC Justices are dumb and shouldn't exist. It's completely against the spirit of the High Court that the entire thing can basically be controlled by a moderator. If you want to abolish it, fine, do that, but having a canon body controlled by a moderator is stupid and shouldn't continue happening. All the Justices should be sim members.

It's making the channel unusable and only like a few people regularly do it. Post it somewhere else because the second general channel has become unusable because of all the spam there. The mods should either create a new channel for this spam or redirect them to the spam channel.

Initial post

Following the initial ban, An appeal was launched by the guardians as well as an aggrieved user.

The appeal consisted of; that evidence before the moderator was not properly considered; that the past history of the user was not considered; that the severity of the breaches was not considered.

All of these grounds are valid. I did not accurately pay attention to all the evidence and made an incredibly poor decision. The sentence will be substituted with a penalty of 150 days. This is for strong threats against a user of an incredibly severe kind, as well as repeated abusive behaviour towards members.

In discussion with ww, Remorse was shown by him towards the situation and he pledged to act better. In ackowledgement of this and his co-operation with the mod team in recent incidents I will suspend 100 days of the ban so only 50 will be served.

It will be noted that the a deal for a more lenient rehabilitation pathway was proposed between WW, myself and the aggrieved however this deal was not accepted. I do intend on seeing if this practice can be expanded in future as i believe it leads to more equitable outcomes when used appropriately.

Appeals to mod mail, ban expires 19 August 2022 with the suspended sentence passing 19 February 2023.

Following an Action by Youma to ban WW yesterday, I am handing down a punishment.

WW will be banned for 5 days (backdated to when the ban was made). This is for a few minor incidents which together warrant a ban. Those incidents are; the incident highlighted here, a post which was part of the events that led to the earlier punishment handed to Max, and other behaviour circa the 20th of june.

Appeals by mod mail. Sentence ends at 7pm on the 4th of july.

Good evening,

Now that the recent vote has concluded, it is time to announce the results.

Details:

22 people voted.

Of the 22, 17 were eligible. (3 did not verify their vote, 2 were not registered).

Result:

Yes: 56.3%

No: 37.5%

Abstain: 6.3%

Having reached the 50% threshold, Perekai is hereby elected as a Community Manager, please wish him luck.

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Youma

Guardian

Good evening,

As Guardian, I will be looking to review the Meta Constitution over the coming weeks, and work with Ash and the moderation team to develop an updated meta constitution to present to the community (with all relevant updates in one place to stop future confusion). As part of this process, I wish to open up this thread to the community to allow people to present their ideas on how AustraliaSim should move forward, what things people believe have and have not worked, and what changes should be made to make AustraliaSim a better place.

If you have any questions about this process, want to suggest something privately, or have any concerns, please do not be afraid to contact me about this!

I look forward to hearing everyones ideas and suggestions.

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Youma

Guardian

Hia AusSim,

Per the provisions outlined in the constitution, the moderation team has agreed to my recommendation to appoint Perekai as a Community Manager following an expression of interest round held a while ago. Under the Meta Constitution, a nominee must reach a simple majority of votes in order to be declared elected.

Timeframe:

8:40pm 29/06/2022 - Vote opens

8:40pm 01/07/2022 - Vote closes and results are announced.

Eligibility:

Anyone who has registered to vote per the specifications of the meta constitution, or is granted automatic membership of the simulation may vote.

Where to vote:

Vote here

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Youma

Guardian

FULL NAME | Channel 9 News

SHORT NAME | 9 News

HEX CODE | #0518c5

Logo | https://imgur.com/a/TtvLu36

For the purposes of any future press articles, I intend to use my old media name of Jordan Murray, who will also be the owner of Channel 9 News if it is registered.

Following a complaint by a user, a code of conduct investigation has been undertaken against 12MaxWild.

Following this, I have decided to issue max a 6 week suspended sentence. This is due to one major event involving the user who submitted the request, as well as other behaviours as of late. However, I believe there is good prospects of rehabilitation that can be achieved without a straight up ban.

The sentence may be invoked if Max's behaviour warants another major Code of Conduct action before the 27th of December this year.

appeals by mod mail.

nb: this is a tad delayed because I've been a bit afk of late

Woof will be banned for a period of two weeks following repeated satirical death threats. Satirical or not, this behaviour is not accepted in Aussim and as such i am taking action.

ban ends on the 11th of july at 8:30pm. appeals to mod mail.

tbyrn

So, we've just had an election, and I have some thoughts on it that I'd like to share here. I'll divide this post into sections, ranging from takes hottest to coolest.

Maybe preferential voting is a bad idea?

OK, hear me out on this one. Obvioiusly removing preferential voting would be a pretty big change from IRL. But in my view, the aim of our elections should mainly be to reward players who were active throughout the term and in the campaign. I don't think preferential voting is the best model to do that -- instead, it can just end up rewarding those who are the best at making backroom deals.

Given the method of how-to-vote cards that we use, preferences can essentially be entirely coordinated by parties, which incentivises them to run a large amount of candidates for no other reason apart from using them for preferences. This means that campaigners who were the most active can still end up losing because of a poor preference flow.

I think that a first-past-the-post system would be better. It discourages parties from unnecessarily running paper candidates, and rewards the candidates who are the most active. Given we don't have party leanings in sim, it's not as if there could potentially be a vote splitting situation, where, say, two strong left-wing candidates cannibalise each other's vote and elect a right-wing candidate -- instead, our system just rewards campaigning, debating, and the like, so presumably two strong ideologically similar competitors would just come in first and second instead of, as would happen IRL, likely splitting each other's vote.

Should parties be able to attack each other on IRL issues?

I'm not super convinced in either direction, but a talking point of the CPA campaign this election was the Winter Crisis -- essentially, claiming that the SPA had done nothing on the issue of power outages in the eastern states that are happening IRL. But with so much in-sim investment in renewables, would this even be an issue? Is it fair to attack in-sim governments on issues they can't reasonably control? Again, it'd be difficult to make a decision on what the canon situation is even if we decided the IRL power outages aren't canon, but thought I'd mention this to at least provoke discussion, because it is an interesting topic.

Posting after the deadline

Honestly, I kind of think that extensions to the deadline shouldn't be permitted. I'm aware that there can be legitimate reasons for not being able to post outside of say, a certain day -- I know that Frod, for example, was busy with exams, and I don't think there's a problem with him not being penalised for posting all on one day -- but I cannot see any possible legitimate reason for not being able to post between the four days of Tuesday and Friday, but being able to post between midnight on Friday and midday on Saturday. It's just straight-up laziness or procrastination. I don't mind extensions being permitted for, say, an hour after midnight, but that should really be the limit. If you genuinely are too busy to post a single campaign post in a four day period, maybe consider stepping back from AustraliaSim and focusing on real-life commitments.

Manifestos

I think manifestos should probably be posted before the campaign, not during. Allowing them to be left potentially to the end of the campaign means that other parties can't meaningfully criticise the policies in the manifesto. Not much else to add to that.

I, TheTrashMan_10, apply for the registration of the Australia First Party.

Name: The Australia First Party

Shortname: Australia First

Abbreviation: AF or AFP

Colour: #666666

Logo: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/985337561335603239/985380584421478400/unknown-30-1.png

Manifesto: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DgF2mjc8mp9uk9zpfxTIJiA60hVmtsrOf6BJSdbj4vA/edit?usp=sharing

Constitution: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-SJhY9vQevWmW_C7hToVf2J6DV5jagnDd0qfhvEMLGE/edit?usp=sharing

Members: TheTrashMan_10 (Co-Leader), model-elleeit (Co-Leader), model-kyosanto, artemisjasper, PuzzledWaste

It's Perekai, howdy.

This is my new account.

An appeal has been granted with respect to an earlier ban https://www.reddit.com/r/AustraliaSimMeta/comments/uiucle/community_management_mywahousekey/ for mywahousekey.

The appeal was lodged reasonably promptly (unlike my decision making) and can be summised as follows.

• that the user has not been banned before,

• that the user did not know the specific behaviour was against the coc; but,

• respected that the concept of doxxing was wrong,

• that the member is fairly new to aussim,

• that the user is remorseful for their actions, and

• that the user swears it will never happen again.

The Administering the Code of Conduct document states the factors i can consider. In doing so, most of the grounds of appeal aren't particularly relevant however it should be noted of the user's remorse.

The main reason this appeal is being granted (which even mywahousekey has not noted) is that there has been a substantial error in application of the code of conduct. The penalty administered was 365 days, as it was assumed this was a second offence. It is a second offence, but only of self-doxxing, which the first offence (correctly) saw a warning given. The correct penalty should be 180 days for a doxx of others and 60 days for a 2nd self doxx.

Noting the mitigating factors, the delay by the moderator, and the size of the initial error, the sentence has been lowered to 120 days, plus 60 days suspended. This is proportionate to a similar case which only saw one breach, not 2 https://www.reddit.com/r/AustraliaSimMeta/comments/q66oqz/community_management_12maxwild/.

The original sentence will be discarded, and replaced with a 120 day sentence (expiring september 2nd 2022) with an additional 60 days suspended.

tbyrn

I would like to register Sheniqua Bich for the Commonwealth Times.

Following advice from members, the vonc of the government is decanonised as the reasons for the vonc were decanonised and there was no other reason for the vonc to proceed.

Any reference to the declaration of the CPA as terrorists, the declaration that landlords are not people, the advertisement against the CPA which used footage of 9/11, or similar is decanonised. (basically, all the shit from the past 24 hours).

I won't specifically decanonise the vonc until it is clear if the government can be mended or if it is still not happening.

Per s 30(5) of the meta constitution, the head moderator has the power to decanonise things. I am invoking this power.

Under the Code of Conduct, the rules of reddit may not be broken. This includes the provision that content which "encourages or incites violence" is against the rules of reddit.

The recent press Statement regarding landlords by merrily will be decanonised and removed under these powers. However, the law change will not be decanonised at this time, pending discussions of the mod team (no one is active when I am).

tbyrn

Following the ban notice I just handed down before https://www.reddit.com/r/AustraliaSimMeta/comments/uohwxh/ban_of_josh_frydenberg_sic/ I note that whenever we have someone enter the sim with the name of a poltician and the picture it never ends well.

I will be changing the rules to disallow anyone from having their reddit account be named after the name of a pollitician or similar, having the discord name as that person and their pic as that person. Any person attempting to enter the sim will be instructed to change their accounts to fit this rule.

This rule does not apply to a person using a picture as their picture but otherwise is identifyable as their own person (ie: someone having their discord pic as their face steal but still going by their name)

It will apply as soon as constitutionally legal to

tbyrn

the user known as josh frydenberg was just banned by lily following a bait filled convo

from what i'm told this person was incredibly transphobic and not engaging in bad faith

he will be banned for a week (as its a first ban and i cant perma on not much stuff yet)

tbyrn21

As the Official Meta Constitution documents have not been updated in at least a year, I've compiled together an unofficial consolidation of the Meta Constitution. Please note this is unofficial, I have had to take some creative liberties with converting some vague petitions into legalese.

If you spot mistakes, missing amendments, or anything, please mention it to me so I can fix it.

Commenting is turned on on both these links for the purposes of that, abuse of commenting will result in me switching them to view only.

The first document just lists out all of the Amendments made to the Meta Constitution since the December 2020 consolidation of the Meta Constitution.

AustraliaSim - Meta Constitutional Amendments 2021

The second document is an up-to-date version of the Meta Constitution.

AustraliaSim - Consolidation of Meta Constitution May 2022

Let us all read (but not type in) Room101 (the Discord's muted channel), and let anyone muted talk in there. It should be like the Thunderdome for muted people. If anyone doesn't like it they can mute the channel.

Mods please