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ANU Spring 2021
2021-06-01 · Australia · BP
Motions
ANU Spring 2021 (2021)11 motions
- Round 1AThis house believes that large companies should be made financially responsible for the pollution caused by sabotage by environmental activists (for example, clean up costs from the sabotage of oil pipelines)
- Round 1BThis house supports the manufacture of cheap, generic versions of medications and vaccines, in violation of western patents.
- Round 2This house prefers the holistic education model to systems of student choice.
- Round 3This house believes prominent male feminists should actively encourage cis-straight men to participate in drag culture.
- Round 4This house, as China, would abandon Wolf-Warrior diplomacy.
- Round 5This house supports norms and institutions which give significant political power to opposition parties (for example, a norm of bipartisan coalitions, appointment to powerful roles in the Executive)
- QuarterfinalsThis house would impose B-Corporation requirements into the governing constitutions of all large companies.
- SemifinalsThis house opposes the ascension of Naftali Bennet to the Israeli premiership.
- ESL Grand FinalThis house believes that journalists who support a Palestinian state should deprioritise Hamas' role in the escalation of the conflict.
- Novice GFThis house believes that religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings.
- Grand FinalThis house supports the use of ‘right to privacy’ arguments to advance social causes (for example, the decriminalisation of abortion and homosexuality).
What gets set here
Politics18%
Environment9%
Health & Medicine9%
Education9%
Social & Identity9%
International Relations9%
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19% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.7.
Last edition: 16 of 85 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break16 teams
- ESL break6 teams
- Novice break5 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 Amrit A. | GW | This house believes prominent male feminists should actively encourage cis-straight men to participate in drag culture. | 86 |
| Dom G. | MG | This house believes prominent male feminists should actively encourage cis-straight men to participate in drag culture. | 85 |
| Oliver C. | MG | This house, as China, would abandon Wolf-Warrior diplomacy. | 84 |
| 🇵🇭 David A. | MO | This house believes prominent male feminists should actively encourage cis-straight men to participate in drag culture. | 84 |
| Dom G. | DLO | This house supports norms and institutions which give significant political power to opposition parties (for example, a norm of bipartisan coalitions, appointment to powerful roles in the Executive) | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Madeleine B. | GW | This house, as China, would abandon Wolf-Warrior diplomacy. | 84 |
| Oliver C. | LO | This house prefers the holistic education model to systems of student choice. | 84 |
| 🇵🇭 Ignacio V. | PM | This house believes prominent male feminists should actively encourage cis-straight men to participate in drag culture. | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Daniel Y. | PM | This house prefers the holistic education model to systems of student choice. | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Seamus D. | DPM | This house prefers the holistic education model to systems of student choice. | 84 |
| 🇵🇭 Luigi A. | OW | This house believes prominent male feminists should actively encourage cis-straight men to participate in drag culture. | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Amrit A. | OW | This house, as China, would abandon Wolf-Warrior diplomacy. | 84 |
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