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Krabi Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2023
2023-07-02 · AP
Part of the Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championship (Australs) series →
Motions from this series
Krabi Australs 2023 (2023)42 motionsCA: 🇦🇺 Leah M., 🇺🇸 Anum N., Tengku O., Mikko V., 🇧🇩 Sourodip P., 🇯🇵 Nasa T.
- Round 1That it is in the best interest of (Formula One) to continue pursuing aggressive commercial expansion even at the expense of sporting integrity.
- Round 1That, as a (Manchester United) fan who grew up in Manchester, would prefer the Sheikh Thani bid.
- Round 1That we should ban gambling companies sponsoring (esports) teams and leagues
- Round 2That we prefer the production of modernised traditional (fairytales) to the production of new original stories for the same audience.
- Round 2That we prefer works of (historical fiction) that overemphasize the roles of disadvantaged groups in a period of history (e.g. Django Unchained), to those that provide an accurate view of their circumstances (e.g. 12 Years a Slave)
- Round 2That we regret (DGA)'s deal with the AMPTP
- Round 3That we support the dimensional approach to mental health diagnoses as opposed to the categorical approach [Diagnosis]
- Round 3That we support the widespread adoption of AI chatbots for talk therapy. [Talk Therapy]
- Round 3That we oppose the focus on pharmacotherapy-based care in mental health treatment. [Pharmacotherapy]
- Round 4That we support the NCCDA. [NCCDA]
- Round 4That, as South Korea, we would aggressively pursue the acquisition of nuclear weapons. [South Korea]
- Round 4That it is in the interest of Bangladesh to provide citizenship to Rohingya refugees. [Bangladesh]
- Round 5That, as the Ballroom community, we would welcome individuals with no Ballroom background to partake in traditionally Ballroom-exclusive acts. [Ballroom]
- Round 5That the global success of the Drag Race franchise has done more harm than good to the art of drag. [Drag Race]
- Round 5That we regret the demonisation of prominent conservative-leaning queer figures by progressive queer communities. [Conservatives]
- Round 6That we support governments financially incentivizing acts of friendship (e.g. making new friends, maintaining friendships, or rekindling old friendships). [friendship]
- Round 6That workers should be compensated based on output rather than the amount of hours worked. [output]
- Round 6That governments should artificially inflate the wages of jobs that they believe will become significantly more socially utile in the event of future crises. [future crises]
- Round 7Assuming an initial agreement is possible, that it is the interest of DA to include EFF in its (DA's) coalition for the 2024 election. [coalition]
- Round 7That the African Union should continue its policy of preservation of colonial era borders instead of recognizing secessionist movements fighting for autonomy. [borders]
- Round 7That South African membership in an active BRICS is in the best interest of other African countries. [BRICS]
- Round 8That we regret the shift from long-cycle development into short-cycle development in technology and engineering. [long-cycle]
- Round 8That, as Apple, we would significantly shift towards a more repairability-oriented business model. [repairability]
- Round 8That we prefer a world where all individuals had access to their own life statistics. [life statistics]
- Pre-QuarterfinalsThat developed countries should all implement the CBAM. [CBAM]
- Pre-QuarterfinalsThat the World Bank should cease the Climate Co-benefits Approach and instead redirect an equivalent proportion of every project's budget towards the Climate Investment Fund. [Climate Investment Fund]
- Pre-QuarterfinalsThat the environmental movement should heavily prioritise nuclear power in their energy advocacy. [Nuclear]
- QuarterfinalsThat we support a global ban on crypto currency [crypto]
- QuarterfinalsThat we oppose captive loans. [captive loans]
- QuarterfinalsThat we support the use of activist short-selling by Western investment firms on companies in the developing world. [short selling]
- SemifinalsThat, as Prigozhin, we regret agreeing to the conditions of the deal brokered by Belarus. [Belarus]
- SemifinalsThat, as Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, we would introduce policies that significantly encourage foreign migration to Japan. [Japan]
- SemifinalsThat, as Filipino progressives, we prefer Leni Robredo no longer run in future elections. [Philippines]
- EFL FinalsThat we would place a cap on the overall amount of wealth that parents can pass down to their children (e.g. inheritance, trust funds, gifts that are given after they turn 18, etc.) [cap]
- EFL FinalsThat we oppose the heightened animosity toward the rich [animosity]
- EFL FinalsThat we prefer a world where the “mottainai” mentality is dominant [mottainai]
- ESL FinalsThat we prefer a world where there is a strong social pressure to have an intellectual disposition [intellectual disposition]
- ESL FinalsThat we prefer religious teachings that emphasise the belief that human beings are born good instead of born evil [born good]
- ESL FinalsThat we prefer a world with a widespread belief in cosmic pluralism to one with a widespread belief in cosmic monism [cosmic pluralism]
- Grand FinalThat as a young woman with feminist beliefs, we would embrace a dissociative feminist persona [dissociative feminist]
- Grand FinalThat we support social-punishment methods as a means of fighting gender inequality [social punishment]
- Grand FinalThat the feminist movement should strongly oppose divine femininity discourse [divine femininity]
Campbelltown Australs 2022 (2022)45 motionsCA: 🇦🇺 Kat C., Umbar, 🇦🇺 Ellie S., Joel Y., Srijan P., 🇯🇵 Tota T., 🇳🇿 Sharuka W.
- Round 1A: That all scientific journals should move to a registered reports model of publication
- Round 1B: That all grant and scholarship funders should substantially outsource selection to third parties
- Round 1C: That labour unions in the tertiary education sector should deprioritise strikes in favour of administration bans (i.e. continuing to teach but refusing to grade papers, oversee exams, answer emails, etc.)
- Round 2A: That the feminist movement should support the portrayal of women as the source of fear in films (ex. Miranda Priestly in the Devil Wears Prada, Carrie in Carrie, Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter)
- Round 2B: That it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.
- Round 2C: That we prefer a world where co-parenting is primarily non-romantic (ie. conducted by consenting partners who have no romantic or sexual relationship, eg. friends).
- Round 3A: That we regret the recent subsidisation of fossil fuels in Latin America to combat inflation
- Round 3B: That Latin American countries should form an economic and political bloc
- Round 3C: That, as a developing country with a significant share of global rare earth minerals, we would adopt downstreaming.
- Round 4A: That it is in the electoral interests of the national Republican Party to strongly oppose Donald Trump's primaries campaign
- Round 4B: That, as the Australian Labor Party, we should aggressively compete with China to fund infrastructure in the Solomon Islands
- Round 4C: That, as South Korea, we would pursue a close economic and diplomatic tie with Japan
- Round 5A: That we support the widespread use of Soulbound Tokens
- Round 5B: That we support the advent of decentralised financial systems
- Round 5C: That the US should attempt to aggressively contain China's capacity to build AI systems (e.g. by limiting China's ability to skill and retain computer scientists, attract US capital into Chinese AI companies, or access parts needed to build AI systems where the US has significant market share, such as semiconductors).
- Round 6C: That we support all international sporting events (e.g. FIFA World Cup, the Olympics) having a permanent host nation
- Round 6A: That, as the captain, we would wear "One Love"
- Round 6B: That, where a player of the national team is originally from a different country, nations should be required to pay compensation to their nation of origin
- Round 7A: That we regret Manne's Program in Economics for Federal Judges
- Round 7B: That, as a foreign judge on the CFA, we would resign
- Round 7C: That we support the widespread use of citizens assemblies in determining law reform in controversial policy areas (e.g., environment, criminal justice)
- Round 8A: That the media should disseminate the idea of a "pandemic amnesty"
- Round 8B: That we, as a centre-left party in a liberal democracy, would explicitly seek electoral gains among less-educated voters.
- Round 8C: That Western operated technology and social media companies (e.g. Facebook, Apple, Twitter) should not give into requests by non-democratic actors to block certain apps or users.
- ESL SemifinalsA: That we prefer the three cities approach to the CBD approach.
- ESL SemifinalsB: That states should only use public housing when conducting social housing policy
- ESL SemifinalsC: That developed countries should pursue a policy of degrowth
- Open Pre-QuartersA: That we prefer the three cities approach to the CBD approach.
- Open Pre-QuartersB: That states should only use public housing when conducting social housing policy
- Open Pre-QuartersC: That developed countries should pursue a policy of degrowth
- Open QuarterfinalsA: That we support the CBAM.
- Open QuarterfinalsB: That governments should adopt competitive neutrality in the energy sector
- Open QuarterfinalsC: That the environmentalist movement should include a just transition away from the animal agriculture industry in its messaging
- Open SemifinalsA: That, as the Houthi rebels, we would reject any negotiations with the Presidential Leadership Council
- Open SemifinalsB: That Western states should support local rebel groups (e.g. by funding them and giving them intel) as opposed to direct military intervention in other states
- Open SemifinalsC: That the IMF's bail-out of Sri Lanka should be contingent on political reform
- EFL Grand FinalA: That we would prefer a world where all people believe in Afterlife A to Afterlife B
- EFL Grand FinalB: That it is in the interests of the Catholic church for an 'extrovert' pope to succeed Pope Francis.
- EFL Grand FinalC: That secular democracies with substantial religious communities should allow a separate legal system for those communities (e.g. Syariah Law, Canon Law)
- ESL Grand FinalB: That western liberal democracies should allow the experimentation and creation of animal-human hybrids
- ESL Grand FinalC: That we believe people are more moral today than in the past
- ESL Grand FinalA: That we would allow doctors to override advance care directives
- Open Grand FinalB: That we support the Campbelltown value system
- Open Grand FinalA: That we regret the prevalence of malevolent AI in popular culture (eg-Skynet in Terminator, Ultron in the Avengers, etc)
- Open Grand FinalC: Assuming the technology exists, that it is immoral to create simulated high-fidelity alternate universes.
Nepal Australs 2021 (2021)54 motionsCA: Banun S., 🇧🇩 Mohammed K., 🇦🇺 Robert B., 🇳🇿 Daniel M., Uphie A., Nicolas L., 🇳🇿 Grace B.
- Round 1A: That we support this trend in progressive discourse.
- Round 1B: That we regret the trend of describing regressive views or speech as violent.
- Round 1C: That, as a new media company, we would choose to have a cohesive voice without consistent attribution of any particular writers (for example, the Economist) rather than individuals writers having their own independent, recognisable voices (for example, the Atlantic)
- Round 2A: That we, as the judge, would rule the crack down legal.
- Round 2B: That, as New Zealand, we would refuse to extradite Mr Kim to China.
- Round 2C: That we would allow a substantially lower minimum wage for prisoner labour.
- Round 3A: That we prefer the separate model to the concurrent model of women's sports.
- Round 3B: That student sports should be completely de-professionalised.
- Round 3C: That sports players should not be punished by sports leagues or clubs for private acts that are not illegal, but may be considered immoral by society (e.g. extra-marital affairs etc.)
- Round 4A: That NATO should vote to expel Turkey.
- Round 4B: That, if the final Noumea Accord referendum fails, New Caledonia should not conduct regular referenda on independence.
- Round 4C: That it is in the best interests of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to quietly abandon its attempt to reunify with Taiwan.
- Round 5A: That we prefer a world where god judges people on the purity of their intentions, rather than the consequences of their actions.
- Round 5B: That we prefer a world where hypocrisy is completely de-stigmatised.
- Round 5C: That we oppose self help narratives that instruct people to reduce their reliance on external validation.
- Round 6A: That we support a rise in income-selective dating apps.
- Round 6B: That we support the commodification of close and intimate relationships.
- Round 6C: That, in a world where both men and women were equally likely to do it, we would prefer a return to the norm of families in which one parent works and the other remains at home.
- Round 7A: That we, as Belarus, regret manufacturing the border crisis with Poland.
- Round 7B: That Western powers should pressure Ethiopia to allow Tigray to secede.
- Round 7C: That countries should never cooperate with Chinese "hostage diplomacy"
- Round 8A: That China should walk back its crack down on private education.
- Round 8B: That education systems should actively teach "Sticking it to the man".
- Round 8C: That small or developing countries should replace their school curriculums with a well-performing curriculum of another country.
- Partial Double OctofinalsA: That, as a mid-tier CCP official in a regional government openly opposed to Xi Jinping's property tax plan, we would obstruct rather than facilitate its implementation.
- Partial Double OctofinalsB: That we regret the rise of retail investment.
- Partial Double OctofinalsC: That we prefer a world without corporate tax.
- ESL QuarterfinalsA: That the writer should write the first ending rather than the second ending.
- ESL QuarterfinalsB: That we prefer the norm of fantasy/science fiction writers creating main characters with ordinary abilities as opposed to main characters with magical and never before seen powers and/or abilities.
- ESL QuarterfinalsC: That we regret the increasing number of movies made from existing intellectual property.
- OctofinalsA: That we would ban the use of any reproductive technology (e.g. abortion, embryo selection) which alters the prevalence of any common disability
- OctofinalsB: That we regret the trend of left-wing media coverage of the deaths of individual prominent anti-vax activists from COVID-19.
- OctofinalsC: That, after receiving professional and science-based medical advice, patients should have the right to undergo treatments that are contrary to that advice and have not received regulatory approval for that usage (for instance, Ivermectin for Covid-19)
- QuarterfinalsA: That the Great Resignation Trend brings more harm than good.
- QuarterfinalsB: That, as a skilled worker, we would prefer a world where polywork was the norm.
- QuarterfinalsC: That, as a member of a minority community, we would actively discourage a child from that community from pursuing careers in state security apparatuses (military, police, immigration etc.)
- EFL SemifinalsB: That we oppose Jeff Bezos' investment in anti-aging technology.
- EFL SemifinalsA: That we would ban individuals from editing their own genomes.
- EFL SemifinalsC: That we should support the creation of the Facebook Metaverse
- ESL SemifinalsA: That authoritarianism will eventually triumph over liberal democracy globally
- ESL SemifinalsB: That it is in the best interests of the Biden Administration to restore aid to Pakistan
- ESL SemifinalsC: That it is in the interests of the EU to lift sanctions against the Taliban regime
- SemifinalsA: That, in contexts where significant sectarian violence has recently given way to a increasingly stable unity government, we oppose measures that increase the public's awareness of the scale and details of atrocities (for instance, publishing evidence-gathering reports, Truth and Reconciliation Commissions).
- SemifinalsB: That we would prefer a world where Vladimir Putin died today suddenly of natural causes.
- SemifinalsC: That we regret Angela Merkel's decision to step down as German Chancellor.
- EFL FinalsA: That, assuming secure implementation and easy use, we would implement liquid democracy
- EFL FinalsB: That left-wing political campaigns should heavily prioritize forwarding "firebrand" political candidates
- EFL FinalsC: That progressives should aggressively but covertly invest in progressive "fake news"
- ESL FinalsA: That we would ban plain clothes policing
- ESL FinalsB: That we prefer mandatory community service to be the ordinary and exclusive punishment for misdemeanours (for instance, traffic violations)
- ESL FinalsC: That people who have suffered acute amnesia should not be punished for crimes they cannot remember
- Grand FinalA: That, as a person who emigrated from a poor nation to a wealthy nation and then becomes highly successful (for instance, Enis Kantor, Elon Musk, Isabel Allende, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Salman Rushdie), we would vocally encourage other people from our homeland to also emigrate
- Grand FinalB: That, in countries with a history of ethnic tensions, we would embrace cultural appropriation
- Grand FinalC: That we should oppose the promotion and marketing of indigenous cultures for the purpose of tourism
2020 Australs (2020)60 motionsCA: 🇦🇺 Kevin L., 🇳🇿 Joe A., Madeline S., Cellini B., Sera Y., Boby R.
- Round 1That, as Joe Biden, we would choose to run on a ‘Medicare-for-All’ platform.
- Round 1That we oppose the medicalisation of learning disabilities.
- Round 1That we regret the norm that doctors should defer to their patients' wishes, even where doing so is not in those patients' best interests.
- Round 2That the government should provide incentives for the urban poor to migrate to rural areas.
- Round 2That the #MeToo movement has failed working class women.
- Round 2That we support gamification in the workplace.
- Round 3That we would abolish the ‘one-year-out’ rule in the NBA.
- Round 3That we prefer a world where sports are not commercialised.
- Round 3That we regret the ongoing prominence of cricket in postcolonial countries.
- Round 4That we, as Benny Gantz, regret signing the coalition agreement between Likud and the Blue and White alliance.
- Round 4That we regret the Trump-Taliban peace deal agreement.
- Round 4That Palestinians should abandon their claim for statehood and opt for a civil rights struggle instead.
- Round 5That we support a permanent move to online tertiary education.
- Round 5That we would proportionately subsidise (e.g. scholarship and funding) university courses according to the employability of their graduates.
- Round 5That we regret the expectation that children should be shielded from all forms of danger.
- Round 6That the Democratic Party should not embrace 'Never Trump' Republicans.
- Round 6That legislative bodies (e.g. parliament, congress, senate, councils) should be formed by sortition democracy.
- Round 6That young people should reject traditionally empowered political parties.
- Round 7That we should ban mortgage-based financial derivatives.
- Round 7That we should limit the trading of individual shares and derivative products to licensed professionals.
- Round 7That we should ban high-frequency trading.
- Round 8That we prefer a world where social media networking sites are only available on a paid subscription basis.
- Round 8That social media companies should aggressively censor offensive and discriminatory content.
- Round 8That we should ban mergers and acquisitions of mass media companies.
- Open Partial Double-OctofinalsThat we, as original producers of non-Western films, would deny Hollywood the right to produce remakes, unless a quota for non-Western actors/actresses is guaranteed.
- Open Partial Double-OctofinalsThat we prefer transformative to curatorial fandom.
- Open Partial Double-OctofinalsThat Disney should remove from circulation cartoons from its history that contain racist caricatures.
- ESL OctofinalsThat we regret the stigmatisation of hedonistic lifestyles.
- ESL OctofinalsThat we support the creation of children's literature which teaches that people are neither good nor evil.
- ESL OctofinalsThat we should abolish literary awards (e.g. the Man Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature).
- Open OctofinalsThat, as minorities, we would engage with respectability politics.
- Open OctofinalsThat we would require companies to use absolute blind recruitment.
- Open OctofinalsThat we should stop the practice of requiring community's approval to build houses of worship.
- EFL QuarterfinalsThat the state should pay reparations to individuals convicted in the past for actions that are no longer recognised as a crime.
- EFL QuarterfinalsThat criminal trials should proceed even when the accused is deceased.
- EFL QuarterfinalsThat the state's failure to address a pandemic should be considered as a crime against humanity.
- ESL QuarterfinalsThat non-Western LGBTQ activists should reject sex positivity.
- ESL QuarterfinalsThat we regret the belief that individuals possess defined personality traits.
- ESL QuarterfinalsThat portrayals of religious deities and prophets in media should receive prior approval from relevant religious authorities.
- Open QuarterfinalsThat the European Central Bank should monetise the government deficits of Eurozone countries experiencing financial crises.
- Open QuarterfinalsThat we should reallocate public investment funds from start-ups to traditional small and medium-sized enterprises.
- Open QuarterfinalsThat we should allow parents to sell shares in their children’s future income streams.
- EFL SemifinalsThat it is illegitimate for states to limit immigration unless there is a clear threat to national security.
- EFL SemifinalsThat we regret the rise of nation-states built around exclusive notions of language, race, and religion.
- EFL SemifinalsThat developing countries should prioritise the massive construction of infrastructure over the direct provision of high subsidies and social welfare.
- ESL SemifinalsThat, as developing nations, we would prefer to align with China than the United States.
- ESL SemifinalsThat ASEAN should transform itself into a political union.
- ESL SemifinalsThat Western companies with a significant number of employees from the Indian diaspora should actively campaign against the caste system.
- Open SemifinalsThat we regret narratives which portray human progress as inevitable.
- Open SemifinalsThat we regret the emphasis placed on individual rights by social justice movements.
- Open SemifinalsThat, in countries where military service is mandatory only for men, as self-proclaimed feminist women, we would actively volunteer in the military.
- EFL Grand FinalThat France should abandon the principle of laïcité.
- EFL Grand FinalThat activist movements should embrace cancel culture as a tool to promote social change.
- EFL Grand FinalThat it is morally wrong to use subconscious manipulation to nudge citizens towards socially desirable choices.
- ESL Grand FinalThat capitalism is incompatible with racial equality.
- ESL Grand FinalThat, as a woman of colour living in a majority-white country, we would embrace, compete in and establish national beauty pageants for women of our ethnic heritage.
- ESL Grand FinalThat we, as a Catholic priest, would actively endorse liberal values that do not align with the Catholic Church.
- Open Grand FinalThat, as environmentalists, we would choose a strategy of working closely with corporations.
- Open Grand FinalThat we should grant legal personhood to culturally significant features of the natural environment.
- Open Grand FinalThat we support compassionate conservation.
Monash Australs 2020 (2020)60 motions
- Round 1That, as Joe Biden, we would choose to run on a ‘Medicare-for-All’ platform.
- Round 1That we oppose the medicalisation of learning disabilities.
- Round 1That we regret the norm that doctors should defer to their patients' wishes, even where doing so is not in those patients' best interests.
- Round 2That the government should provide incentives for the urban poor to migrate to rural areas.
- Round 2That the #MeToo movement has failed working class women.
- Round 2That we support gamification in the workplace.
- Round 3That we would abolish the ‘one-year-out’ rule in the NBA.
- Round 3That we prefer a world where sports are not commercialised.
- Round 3That we regret the ongoing prominence of cricket in postcolonial countries.
- Round 4That we, as Benny Gantz, regret signing the coalition agreement between Likud and the Blue and White alliance.
- Round 4That we regret the Trump-Taliban peace deal agreement.
- Round 4That Palestinians should abandon their claim for statehood and opt for a civil rights struggle instead.
- Round 5That we support a permanent move to online tertiary education.
- Round 5That we would proportionately subsidise (e.g. scholarship and funding) university courses according to the employability of their graduates.
- Round 5That we regret the expectation that children should be shielded from all forms of danger.
- Round 6That the Democratic Party should not embrace 'Never Trump' Republicans.
- Round 6That legislative bodies (e.g. parliament, congress, senate, councils) should be formed by sortition democracy.
- Round 6That young people should reject traditionally empowered political parties.
- Round 7That we should ban mortgage-based financial derivatives.
- Round 7That we should limit the trading of individual shares and derivative products to licensed professionals.
- Round 7That we should ban high-frequency trading.
- Round 8That we prefer a world where social media networking sites are only available on a paid subscription basis.
- Round 8That social media companies should aggressively censor offensive and discriminatory content.
- Round 8That we should ban mergers and acquisitions of mass media companies.
- Open Partial Double-OctofinalsThat we, as original producers of non-Western films, would deny Hollywood the right to produce remakes, unless a quota for non-Western actors/actresses is guaranteed.
- Open Partial Double-OctofinalsThat we prefer transformative to curatorial fandom.
- Open Partial Double-OctofinalsThat Disney should remove from circulation cartoons from its history that contain racist caricatures.
- ESL OctofinalsThat we regret the stigmatisation of hedonistic lifestyles.
- ESL OctofinalsThat we support the creation of children's literature which teaches that people are neither good nor evil.
- ESL OctofinalsThat we should abolish literary awards (e.g. the Man Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature).
- Open OctofinalsThat, as minorities, we would engage with respectability politics.
- Open OctofinalsThat we would require companies to use absolute blind recruitment.
- Open OctofinalsThat we should stop the practice of requiring community's approval to build houses of worship.
- EFL QuarterfinalsThat the state should pay reparations to individuals convicted in the past for actions that are no longer recognised as a crime.
- EFL QuarterfinalsThat criminal trials should proceed even when the accused is deceased.
- EFL QuarterfinalsThat the state's failure to address a pandemic should be considered as a crime against humanity.
- ESL QuarterfinalsThat non-Western LGBTQ activists should reject sex positivity.
- ESL QuarterfinalsThat we regret the belief that individuals possess defined personality traits.
- ESL QuarterfinalsThat portrayals of religious deities and prophets in media should receive prior approval from relevant religious authorities.
- Open QuarterfinalsThat the European Central Bank should monetise the government deficits of Eurozone countries experiencing financial crises.
- Open QuarterfinalsThat we should reallocate public investment funds from start-ups to traditional small and medium-sized enterprises.
- Open QuarterfinalsThat we should allow parents to sell shares in their children’s future income streams.
- EFL SemifinalsThat it is illegitimate for states to limit immigration unless there is a clear threat to national security.
- EFL SemifinalsThat we regret the rise of nation-states built around exclusive notions of language, race, and religion.
- EFL SemifinalsThat developing countries should prioritise the massive construction of infrastructure over the direct provision of high subsidies and social welfare.
- ESL SemifinalsThat, as developing nations, we would prefer to align with China than the United States.
- ESL SemifinalsThat ASEAN should transform itself into a political union.
- ESL SemifinalsThat Western companies with a significant number of employees from the Indian diaspora should actively campaign against the caste system.
- Open SemifinalsThat we regret narratives which portray human progress as inevitable.
- Open SemifinalsThat we regret the emphasis placed on individual rights by social justice movements.
- Open SemifinalsThat, in countries where military service is mandatory only for men, as self-proclaimed feminist women, we would actively volunteer in the military.
- EFL Grand FinalThat France should abandon the principle of laïcité.
- EFL Grand FinalThat activist movements should embrace cancel culture as a tool to promote social change.
- EFL Grand FinalThat it is morally wrong to use subconscious manipulation to nudge citizens towards socially desirable choices.
- ESL Grand FinalThat capitalism is incompatible with racial equality.
- ESL Grand FinalThat, as a woman of colour living in a majority-white country, we would embrace, compete in and establish national beauty pageants for women of our ethnic heritage.
- ESL Grand FinalThat we, as a Catholic priest, would actively endorse liberal values that do not align with the Catholic Church.
- Open Grand FinalThat, as environmentalists, we would choose a strategy of working closely with corporations.
- Open Grand FinalThat we should grant legal personhood to culturally significant features of the natural environment.
- Open Grand FinalThat we support compassionate conservation.
2019 Australs (2019)45 motionsCA: 🇦🇺 Ben J., 🇦🇺 Dominic G., Alice S., Yarn S., 🇵🇭 Mika F., Mubarrat W.
- Round 1That the United States should adopt a single payer insurance scheme instead of offering a public option in the private insurance market.
- Round 1That progressive politicians in the United States should boycott Fox News.
- Round 1That the Democratic party should elect a centrist candidate for the upcoming United States presidential election.
- Round 2That we should use predictive data to assess the age at which individuals should qualify for retirement pension payments, rather than a standardised retirement age.
- Round 2That we support greater restrictions on migrants' access to civic rights (welfare, healthcare, voting rights, etc.) in exchange for more open immigration.
- Round 2That we should allow parents to raise babies behind bars.
- Round 3That the international community should recognize Somaliland as an independent and sovereign nation.
- Round 3Assuming the Sudanese civilians manage to take power from the military, That the new civilian government should revert to its pre-1970 flag.
- Round 3That, as Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC), we would hand Omar al-Bashir over to the International Criminal Court.
- Round 4That we regret the commercialisation of cultural/religious festivals.
- Round 4That you should start a new religion.
- Round 4That, as an evangelical conservative leader in a red/swing state, we should endorse a third party candidate (such as Evan McMullan) instead of Donald Trump.
- Round 5That we should force large companies to be fully publicly listed.
- Round 5That self-described 'socially responsible investors' should engage in shareholder activism with companies that have poor ethical records rather than excluding them from their portfolios.
- Round 5That we should ban the short-selling of shares.
- Round 6That we regret the prominent usage of self-deprecating humour by female comedians.
- Round 6That minority movements should abandon the strategy of ‘reclaiming’ words used as slurs.
- Round 6That we support the #OwnVoices campaign that says authors should only write from the perspective of their own lived experiences and stories.
- Round 7That, as an Islamic political party in a democracy (e.g. PAS in Malaysia, National Awakening Party PKB in Indonesia, Jamaat e Islami in Pakistan and Bangladesh) we would abandon an agenda of Islamic political reform and focus instead on provision of social services.
- Round 7That, as Qatar, we would abandon all attempts to reconcile with the Saudi coalition.
- Round 7That India should remove Articles 35A and 370 of the Indian Constitution.
- Round 8That reputational damage should not be a mitigating factor in criminal sentencing.
- Round 8That we should nationalise all provision of legal services.
- Round 8That we should abolish cash bail and replace it with an algorithmic risk assessment.
- Open OctofinalsThat, as Hong Kong, we would prefer having remained under British rule rather than reverting to China.
- Open OctofinalsThat, as the Chinese Communist Party, we would officially acknowledge and express regret for the Tiananmen massacre.
- Open OctofinalsThat, as China, we would suspend rare earth mineral exports to the United States in response to the trade war.
- Open QuarterfinalsThat social media platforms should be held legally part-liable for hosted content that passes a certain threshold of 'clout' (e.g. pageviews).
- Open QuarterfinalsThat we prefer a world where digital anonymity is and was the norm.
- Open QuarterfinalsThat we oppose the development of implantable Direct Cortical Interfaces.
- ESL SemifinalsThat parliamentary democracies should have an upper house with randomly selected citizens.
- ESL SemifinalsThat we regret the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil.
- ESL SemifinalsThat we support federalism in the Philippines.
- Open SemifinalsThat we regret the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil.
- Open SemifinalsThat we support federalism in the Philippines.
- Open SemifinalsThat parliamentary democracies should have an upper house with randomly selected citizens.
- EFL Grand FinalThat wealthy environmentalists should purchase land and not allow mining or drilling on it, instead of donating to political campaigns for government regulations.
- EFL Grand FinalThat activist groups against companies with poor ethical records that sell physical products (ie. Nike), should protest by stealing merchandise from stores, distributors and factories.
- EFL Grand FinalThat climate change activists should exclusively focus on changing the behaviour of governments and big businesses (rather than campaigning for individuals to make small changes in their own lives).
- ESL Grand FinalThat investment in sport should prioritise funding grassroots and community sports as opposed to elite athletes.
- ESL Grand FinalThat the ICC should abolish the principle of complementarity.
- ESL Grand FinalThat we should abolish the Common Agricultural Policy.
- Open Grand FinalThat we regret the belief that there is inherent value in martyrdom.
- Open Grand FinalThat we regret the norm of parents financially supporting their children after they become adults.
- Open Grand FinalThat we regret the vilification of communism.
Australs 2017 (2017)42 motions
- Round 1That we should require prospective parents to obtain a parenting licence prior to having children
- Round 1That we should allow pro-life organisations to pay women considering abortion to carry their pregnancies to term
- Round 1Assuming it is possible to copy the consciousness of the deceased onto another person, that we should allow the parents of deceased children to do so onto orphaned infants
- Round 2That we should oppose fashion and beauty as tools of gendered self-expression (e.g. wearing of heels and makeup)
- Round 2That we regret the trend away from valuing art for its technical qualities in favour of abstract characteristics (e.g. conceptual intent, contextual appreciation, uniqueness)
- Round 2That you should not solve the murder in the remaining episodes.
- Round 3In countries with a quota for refugees, that governments should allow and facilitate citizens to offer asylum to additional refugees in their homes
- Round 3That progressive media in the Philippines should not self-censor coverage of extra-judicial killings where they involve victims with serious criminal histories (e.g. known drug lords)
- Round 3That the West should provide international assistance to the North Korean regime for the exploration, extraction and development of Rare Earth Minerals (REMs)
- Round 4That we should nationalise all residential housing
- Round 4That we should require professional sports leagues to require open entry and exit for new and existing franchises
- Round 4That we should cap lending to any individual, household or company below a maximum debt-to-income ratio
- Round 5That we support a men’s rights movement
- Round 5That we support a pedophile rights movement
- Round 5That we should abolish national representative sporting teams
- Round 6That we support China’s cap on foreign made films
- Round 6That all European Union member states should hold simultaneous referenda on their EU membership
- Round 6That the Clintons should cease all engagement in US politics and public life
- Round 7That we should ban individuals from self-harm as a form of religious penance
- Round 7That, in secular states, religiosity should be an aggravating factor in sentencing crimes which go against the teachings of the offender's religion
- Round 7That anti-theists should donate to, and actively support progressive and/or liberal churches
- Round 8That the state should compensate individuals who are found ‘not guilty’ at trial
- Round 8That mediation should be mandatory before initiating court proceedings in family law
- Round 8That all trials should be incorporeal trials
- Open OctofinalsThat feminists should support the provision of wife bonuses in pre-nuptial agreements
- Open OctofinalsThat we regret the concept of unconditional love
- Open OctofinalsThat, in jurisdictions with abortion on demand, we should allow paper abortion
- ESL SemifinalsThat we support the creation of body corporate/owners corporation/strata community in which owners are able to make prescriptive rules and regulations to live in the community, and can forcibly remove owners who do not comply
- ESL SemifinalsThat schools should prioritise teachers' knowledge of their subject area over their knowledge of pedagogy and educational theory
- ESL SemifinalsThat, as a teacher, we should contradict curriculum that we believe will be harmful to society
- Open QuarterfinalsThat the Baltic states (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia) should train their civilian populations in armed insurgency
- Open QuarterfinalsThat we support the mobilisation of Shia militia (eg. People's mobilisation forces) in the battle against the Islamic State
- Open QuarterfinalsThat a state pursuing policies with the effect of denying other states access to essential resources (food, water, etc.) that could not otherwise be obtained, should be legitimate grounds for military action
- Open SemifinalsThat Black Lives Matter should closely integrate the black church and elements of black liberation theology (the narrative that liberating the oppressed is the core of Christian doctrine) into its organisational structure and doctrines.
- Open SemifinalsThat Muslims should abandon the usage of the label ‘moderate Muslim’ in identifying themselves
- Open SemifinalsThat we would deny land rights to, and if necessary, forcefully relocate indigenous communities whose culture and way of life are responsible for environmental degradation (eg. timber plundering, destruction of high conservation value areas, seal clubbing, etc.)
- ESL Grand FinalThat we should allow organ donors, or their families in case of death, the right to stipulate the recipient of an organ donation.
- ESL Grand FinalThat, where commercial surrogacy is legal, surrogates should be permitted to unilaterally withdraw from surrogacy contracts at any point, without any liability
- ESL Grand FinalThat we regret the assumption that people who work in community-based or care professions do so out of genuine emotional attachment (e.g that nurses care about their patients, or teachers about their students)
- Open Grand FinalThat we support the creation of autonomously governed ocean-based communities (ie. seasteading)
- Open Grand FinalThat we should require businesses who profit from cultural traditions (ethnic restaurants/cultural tourism/yoga studios) to obtain a licence from minority community groups, based on conditions of their choosing
- Open Grand FinalThat European States which remained neutral during World War II should pay compensation to States occupied by Nazi Germany
Australs 2016 (2016)42 motions
- Round 1That where private prisons exist, they should be allowed to train/educate inmates in return for a percentage of that prisoner’s income that they earn after they leave prison.
- Round 1That we should ban litigation funding.
- Round 1That the state should fully compensate the victims of crimes committed by recidivist criminals.
- Round 2That we should allow people to sue media companies over harms that are created due to factual misinformation that they published.
- Round 2That we should regret dating/hookup websites allowing their users filtering results on the basis of demographic characteristics (race, gender, age etc.)
- Round 2That Facebook should proactively suppress extremist content
- Round 3That we should reject the culture of fearing death.
- Round 3That we would prefer a world with only one language.
- Round 3That humans should attempt to suppress their sense of beauty.
- Round 4That public universities should not implement speech codes or codes of conduct that limit expression beyond the laws of that country.
- Round 4That we should regret the increasing dominance of academic discourse in civil rights movements (eg gender studies to feminism and queer studies to that queer rights movement)
- Round 4That universities and companies should only be allowed to recruit students and employees via a blind application process.
- Round 5That we should ban animal eugenics programmes (eg: selective breeding and pure breeding)
- Round 5That we should cease all state initiated conservation projects
- Round 5That we should oppose giving human rights to individual animals who pass self-recognition tests unless the whole species are granted those rights
- Round 6That citizenships should be placed on an international market for sale and purchase.
- Round 6That the European Union should opt for less integration among its current member states.
- Round 6That refugees should be able to bypass standard refugee quotas and procedures if they have an individual citizen take responsibility for them.
- Round 7That we should legalise secondary strikes/solidarity action. (industrial action taken by a workforce in support of another, separate workforce)
- Round 7That we should allow employees to give up workplace rights in exchange for higher wages.
- Round 7That we would prefer a world where the norm is that people hold multiple part time jobs instead of the current norm of one full time job.
- Round 8That where the state has negotiated a sale of public land they must first offer indigenous groups the chance to purchase the land on the same terms.
- Round 8That the state should exclusively focus on recifying current inequalities to the exclusion of compensating for historical injustices
- Round 8That local communities should be able to cap the number of tourists that enter their region over a specific period of time
- Open OctofinalsThat, where home schooling exists, we should ban religious individuals from homeschooling their children.
- Open OctofinalsThat we, as the Catholic Church, would abolish sainthoods and canonisation.
- Open OctofinalsThat individuals should always have the right to temporarily enter a state for the purposes of pilgrimage.
- ESL SemifinalsThat the narrative that charitable initiatives can be profitable (eg microfinancing, impact investment) has done more harm than good.
- ESL SemifinalsThat charities should not accept donations made by public figures as part of a public apology (eg public figures who are criticised for being misogynists and then donate to domestic violence charities).
- ESL SemifinalsThat the state should not provide legal recognition and support to charities whose main goal is to raise awareness.
- Open QuarterfinalsThat we regret the efforts of the United States to make housing more affordable.
- Open QuarterfinalsThat we, as China, should compensate venture capital/private equity firms for investment losses in China.
- Open QuarterfinalsThat the pro-Palestine movement should not liken Israel to apartheid.
- Open SemifinalsThat we should abolish corporate/company tax.
- Open SemifinalsThat we should establish an international body responsible for taxing and redistributing income earned by multi-national corporations such as Facebook and Google.
- Open SemifinalsThat we should allow income splitting. (Income splitting allows a person to allocate part of their income to their partner for tax purposes. Eg Kirkby earns $0, Nick earns $100,000. Each is taxed at $50,000 each. It is not taxing them at $100,000 as if they are one person.)
- ESL Grand FinalThat we should oppose the Teach for All programme.
- ESL Grand FinalThat as a middle class African-American parent, given the choice between an under-performing but predominantly African American school and a high performing but predominantly white school, we should choose to send our children to the predominantly African-American school.
- ESL Grand FinalThat we should give control of education curriculum administration and policy (eg teacher pay and curricula) to teachers’ unions.
- Open Grand FinalThat the modern breast feeding movement has done more harm than good
- Open Grand FinalThat feminists should oppose drag culture
- Open Grand FinalThat feminists should refrain from using the act of sex to further their personal or political goals
What gets set here
Social & Identity1%
Sport0%
Media0%
Health & Medicine0%
Abstract0%
Politics0%
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26% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 7 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 77.3.
Last edition: 18 of 58 teams broke.
- 20167 pts18/74
- 20177 pts21/79
- 2018cut unknown25/90
- 20197 pts · 77.3 speaks22/76
- 20208 pts · 77.3 speaks29/135
- 20208 pts · 77.3 speaks29/135
- 20217 pts · 77.0 speaks25/110
- 20227 pts · 77.2 speaks12/46
- 20236 pts · 77.6 speaks18/58
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- ESL break4 teams
- EFL break3 teams
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