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ANU Spring 2023
2023-06-01 · Australia · BP
Motions from this series
ANU Spring 2023 (2023)9 motions
- Round 1aTHS a significant increase in the prevalence of bilingual education systems
- Round 1bTBHT education systems should heavily prioritise the teaching of local literature over the global canon
- Round 2TH, as a wealthy art collector, would choose to invest in red-chip art over blue chip art.
- Round 3TH, as a world-class female football (played with a round ball) manager working in women’s football, would publicly declare that you would never take a job in the men’s game
- Round 4TH, as Vietnam, would significantly prioritize relations with the West over China
- Round 5THW livestream criminal trials
- SemifinalsTHP regionally/nationally focused news outlets (e.g. The Sydney Morning Herald, Aaj Tak, NDTV India) to international news outlets (e.g. The New York Times, The Guardian)
- Grand FinalTHP a world where the US had aggressively pushed for total global nuclear disarmament at the end of the Cold War
- Novice FinalsIn ethnically diverse countries, THW require all neighbourhoods to represent the ethnic makeup of that country
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
Education15%
International Relations15%
Law & Crime10%
Media10%
Social & Identity10%
Politics10%
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Practice Education motions ›Read: Generating arguments ›Breaking here
18% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.7.
Last edition: 8 of 45 teams broke.
- 202111 pts · 79.7 speaks16/85
- 202311 pts · 79.7 speaks8/45
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break8 teams
- Novice break4 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 Mark R. | OW | THW livestream criminal trials | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Kat C. | GW | TH, as a world-class female football (played with a round ball) manager working in women’s football, would publicly declare that you would never take a job in the men’s game | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Jordyn G. | MG | TH, as a wealthy art collector, would choose to invest in red-chip art over blue chip art. | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Rose H. | DLO | TH, as a world-class female football (played with a round ball) manager working in women’s football, would publicly declare that you would never take a job in the men’s game | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Udai K. | MG | TH, as a world-class female football (played with a round ball) manager working in women’s football, would publicly declare that you would never take a job in the men’s game | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Jordyn G. | MO | TBHT education systems should heavily prioritise the teaching of local literature over the global canon | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Sierra T. | LO | TH, as a world-class female football (played with a round ball) manager working in women’s football, would publicly declare that you would never take a job in the men’s game | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Matthew T. | LO | TH, as a world-class female football (played with a round ball) manager working in women’s football, would publicly declare that you would never take a job in the men’s game | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Xiao L. | GW | THS a significant increase in the prevalence of bilingual education systems | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Nicola B. | GW | TH, as a wealthy art collector, would choose to invest in red-chip art over blue chip art. | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Xiao L. | OW | TH, as a world-class female football (played with a round ball) manager working in women’s football, would publicly declare that you would never take a job in the men’s game | 83 |
| 🇮🇱 Tamar M. | GW | THS a significant increase in the prevalence of bilingual education systems | 82 |
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