Honi Soit

Lu is elected, with the entirety of the left bloc abstaining. They appear to want to elect another person, but are passing this through to avoid a bureaucratic impasse. The same for the election of the ELA. Meeting closed.

Prudence Wilkins-Wheat suggests that there is more of a political link between He and Lu beyond the two being ‘acquaintances’

Jacky He explains the semantics of the word ‘acquaintance’ in order to relay the extent of his personal connection to Lu: “Like, someone you see and say hi to”

President He notes that Lu was “the fastest ballot counter” during the Wentworth federal by-election

Luo notes Lu’s involvement in several forms of election: state, federal, and even USU. He argues that Lu was selected by previous EO, Karen Chau. Stricter-Phelps suggests that Lu come and speak to his nomination. Lara Sonnenschein jokingly suggests that he “Skype in”

Liam Donohoe, rumoured Grassroots presidential candidate: “I do not think [Casper] will have enough knowledge to apply the precedents of previous elections ... it is not enough to have a post-hoc decision making process”

Gabi Stricker-Phelps queries Campbell as to potential regulations that the EO will be obliged to follow. Campbell responds that the EO has significant discretion, ranging from serious rulings to shirt colours.

Campbell: “He is the worst candidate I have ever seen ... this is naked and open corruption and biased to the right...”

President He gives the electoral report. He notes the electoral committee has recommended Casper Lu as their candidate. Honi understands that Luo and He were both to some extent conflicted off that decision making process. A motion to accept the recommendation is being discussed

Quorum is attained without the need for any electronic attendance and the meeting opens at 6:57pm

President Jacky He bursts into the USSC boardroom with another councillor, announcing that “four more councillors are coming”

Lily Campbell (SAlt) speaks on the presence of prospective EO, Caspar Lu, to VP Luo’s 2017 ‘Vision for 1st Years’ ticket. The left bloc also think Lu is too young at 20 to oversee the SRC election, and that there’s a conflict of interest as he an undergraduate student at USyd

Secretary to Council Julia Robins advises that tonight’s meeting would not impact the undertakings of meetings such as RepsElect, which is not technically a meeting of the council but of newly elected representatives

The left bloc’s prevailing argument against electronic attendance is that it erodes the requirement of physical attendance for more important meetings such as RepSelect. Other councillors such as James Ardouin “just want to have an election”

9 of the left bloc oppose proxies entering meeting via Skype and/or phone calls, they succeed. There is a motion put forward to do a quorum count in 30 minutes, which has no outcome. VP Luo urges the left bloc to allow calls and Skype.

Despite promises of this meeting starting promptly at six, it has not yet begun. Several councillors are said to be Skyping/calling in. The attendance sheet is currently being circulated.