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Sydney Mini 2022
2022-06-01 · Australia · BP
Motions from this series
Sydney Mini 2022 (2022)7 motions
- Round 1This house supports allowing the estates of individuals who die due to outbreaks of infectious disease to sue national health authorities for negligence
- Round 2This house supports the governments of developing nations offering negative interest loans to domestic businesses
- Round 3This house, as Nepal, prefers strengthening our long-term relationship with China rather than India
- Round 4This house believes that joining or attempting to join a terrorist organisation should not be a crime in and of itself
- Round 5This house would abolish political parties in local government
- SemifinalsThis house regrets the decline of the Catholic Church's art patronage
- Grand FinalThis house would give the Romani people of Europe full representation in the European Union
Sydney Mini 2019 (2019)9 motions
- Round 1 (Friday)This House supports policies and norms which require public servants to be apolitical.
- Round 1 (Saturday)This House would ban former politicians from taking up lobbyist roles.
- Round 2This House regrets the tendency to shield children from death.
- Round 3This House believes that developed nations should adopt bail-ins instead of bail-outs as their primary means of rescuing distressed financial institutions.
- Round 4This House regrets the revival of Confucianism in China.
- Round 5This House prefers a world where co-parenting is primarily non-romantic (ie. conducted by consenting partners who have no romantic or sexual relationship, eg. friends).
- QuarterfinalsThis House supports the National African American Gun Association.
- SemifinalsThis House supports Mohammad bin Salman’s leadership.
- Grand FinalAssuming feasibility, This House would allow people to sell their happiness to others.
Sydney Mini 2018 (2018)10 motions
- Round 1 (Friday)This House opposes the private provision of services generally considered to be public services (e.g. healthcare, education).
- Round 1 (Saturday)This House believes that all universities should be required to decide which students to admit based purely on academic results.
- Round 2This House, as the European Union, would create a standing army.
- Round 3This House supports gritty realism in favour of sanitising historical representation in art (e.g. by including mistreatment of women in pseudo-medieval period pieces like Game of Thrones).
- Round 4This House believes that developed countries should not prosecute companies for engaging in bribery in developing countries, where such practices are common in the course of business.
- Round 5This House, as a low-SES parent of one, would encourage their child of average ability to be content with their circumstances rather than to be ambitious.
- QuarterfinalsThis House prefers sortition elections to elections in which the entire electorate votes.
- SemifinalsThis House regrets the existence of high fashion.
- Grand FinalThis House would constitutionally compel the President of South Africa to form governments including all major political parties, with positions in cabinet allocated proportionately to each party’s vote share.
- Grand FinalThis House believes that all daycare programs should be run by sentient artificial intelligence.
What gets set here
Politics27%
Law & Crime15%
Social & Identity15%
Economics12%
Arts & Culture12%
International Relations8%
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Practice Politics motions ›Read: Generating arguments ›Breaking here
34% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 15 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.4.
Last edition: 8 of 35 teams broke.
- 20189 pts · 79.6 speaks16/40
- 201927 pts · 79.4 speaks17/42
- 202210 pts · 79.2 speaks8/35
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Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 Ally P. | GW | This house believes that joining or attempting to join a terrorist organisation should not be a crime in and of itself | 85 |
| 🇦🇺 Sam T. | PM | This house would abolish political parties in local government | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Udai K. | DLO | This house, as Nepal, prefers strengthening our long-term relationship with China rather than India | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Kat C. | GW | This house supports allowing the estates of individuals who die due to outbreaks of infectious disease to sue national health authorities for negligence | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 David W. | MG | This house supports allowing the estates of individuals who die due to outbreaks of infectious disease to sue national health authorities for negligence | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Cormac M. | DPM | This house would abolish political parties in local government | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Leah M. | MO | This house would abolish political parties in local government | 83 |
| 🇬🇧 Mark R. | LO | This house, as Nepal, prefers strengthening our long-term relationship with China rather than India | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Matthew T. | MO | This house, as Nepal, prefers strengthening our long-term relationship with China rather than India | 83 |
| 🇬🇧 Mark R. | OW | This house supports allowing the estates of individuals who die due to outbreaks of infectious disease to sue national health authorities for negligence | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Jenny L. | OW | This house, as Nepal, prefers strengthening our long-term relationship with China rather than India | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Mikey X. | OW | This house would abolish political parties in local government | 83 |
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