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South China Australs 2025
2025-07-07 · China, In person · AP
Part of the Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championship (Australs) series →
Motions from this series
South China Australs 2025 (2025)42 motions
- Round 1That we oppose court-mandated Men's Behaviour Change programs
- Round 1That we oppose bans on sex-selective abortions
- Round 1That it is in girls' interests to be sent to single-sex schools
- Round 2That we should incentivise the construction of build-to-rent housing
- Round 2That, in developed states, we support governments significantly investing in housing construction under the Singaporean model
- Round 2That, in cities facing housing crises, we would ban individuals from purchasing more than two existing (i.e. not newly built) dwellings
- Round 3That states which have recently formed through religious secession should establish Religious Councils rather than implementing secularism
- Round 3That we support states employing surrendered militants for counter-insurgency measures
- Round 3That the Indian feminist movement should actively encourage women to participate in the Agniveer scheme
- Round 4That MERCOSUR countries should allow the free movement of labour amongst member states
- Round 4That, as a West African nation, we would offer diaspora (including descendants of enslaved persons) citizenship and tax incentives to return to their home nation
- Round 4That it is in the interest of the al-Sharaa Syrian government to sign the Abraham Accords
- Round 5That we believe that the morally righteous choice is for the man to save the baby
- Round 5That, when a loved one disappears for months without explanation, we would rather believe they chose to leave than believe they were dead
- Round 5That parents from low socioeconomic backgrounds should teach their children to believe happiness is the only thing in life that really matters
- Round 6That we prefer a standard of strict liability to a standard of negligence in workplace harassment cases
- Round 6That we prefer a Tournament of Judges model for appointing judges to higher courts to a system of appointments by executives
- Round 6That courts should impose adverse cost orders on parties who refuse reasonable settlement offers and subsequently fail to obtain a better outcome at trial
- Round 7That India should aggressively pursue the development of SEZs
- Round 7That we believe artificial intelligence will do more harm than good to the average person
- Round 7That it is in the interests of the Asian Tigers to aggressively crackdown on unpaid overtime
- Round 8That it is in the interests of the United States to significantly raise personal income and corporate taxes to reduce the budget deficit, rather than significantly reducing government spending
- Round 8That Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York mayoral primary is in the interest of the Democratic Party
- Round 8That US universities should comply with the Trump administration
- Pre QuarterfinalsThat it is in PGA Tour's interests to make a large investment in virtual golf arenas and include virtual golf tournaments on the PGA Tour
- Pre QuarterfinalsThat, as an English Premier League football club outside of the Big Six, we would prioritise signing young talents on long-term deals over buying established stars
- Pre QuarterfinalsThat we support referees and refereeing bodies having a bias toward star sports players
- QuarterfinalsThat we prefer the New Zealand UE system to a system where entry to university degrees is granted on high school marks and university entrance exam results
- QuarterfinalsThat the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) should limit the amount of grant money universities can use for overhead expenses (e.g. administration, utilities) to no more than 15% of research expenses (e.g. researcher salaries, equipment, facilities)
- QuarterfinalsThat universities should be required to cover 50% of the unpaid student loan debt when a student fails to graduate and subsequently defaults on their loan
- SemifinalsThat, as drug reform advocates in western liberal democracies, we would prioritise progressive public health narratives (e.g. harm minimisation) over libertarian civil rights narratives (e.g. bodily freedom) when discussing party drugs
- SemifinalsThat, in countries where cannabis is being legalised, we would do so using a state monopoly model (i.e. state-run cannabis outlets) rather than a commercial model
- SemifinalsThat we support involuntary inpatient treatment (i.e. long to medium term stays in psychiatric facilities or rehabilitation centres) for drug addicts
- Grand FinalThat we support left-wing parties adopting nationalist environmental policy and rhetoric (e.g. economic protectionism for renewable energy projects, portraying environmental damage as a threat to national safety, portraying the green transition as necessary for energy security and independence)
- Grand FinalThat it is in the interests of Pacific Island nations threatened by sea level rise to prioritise purchasing land from neighbouring developing countries for the purpose of future relocation, over negotiating pathways to permanent residence in developed countries
- Grand FinalThat we oppose the reopening of the Panguna mine
- English as a Second Language FinalsThat we would abolish the Price Limit Rule in China’s Stock Exchanges
- English as a Second Language FinalsThat we support Southeast Asian nations privatising state owned banks
- English as a Second Language FinalsThat, in times of recession, we should prohibit publicly traded companies engaged in critical sectors (e.g. health, security, energy) from going private
- English as a Foreign Language FinalsThat we support the decline of Traditional News outlets in favour of New Media
- English as a Foreign Language FinalsThat we would hold political party leadership accountable for crimes committed by candidates during elections and elected members whilst in office
- English as a Foreign Language FinalsThat we prefer a world where people are meaningfully less inclined to backlash against protests which turn violent
Jakarta Australs 2024 (2024)48 motionsCA: 🇰🇷 Youngwoo P., 🇦🇺 Matthew T., 🇵🇭 Bea L., 🇳🇿 Grace B., 🇸🇬 Deon K., 🇲🇾 Shireen A.
- Round 0That renters of public housing should be allowed to purchase that housing at a discounted rate.
- Round 0That, in cities facing housing crises, we would remove all heritage protections in building codes.
- Round 0That, in states with a low fertility rate, we prefer policies with a familising effect rather than a de-familising effect.
- Round 1That sports clubs should adopt a blanket 'no fault stand-down' policy.
- Round 1That we oppose the use of video refereeing to make on-field decisions.
- Round 1That, as a reigning F2 champion with no promised F1 seat, we would choose to race in a different series over taking a F1 reserve seat.
- Round 2That, as an artist, we would prioritise making our art comprehensible to audiences, at the expense of authentic self-expression.
- Round 2That artists should always refuse requests to do unpaid work.
- Round 2That we oppose the establishment of "prohibited art" museums.
- Round 3That the US should abolish state by state incorporation and have businesses incorporated at the federal level.
- Round 3That we oppose risk retention requirements.
- Round 3That China should require shadow banks to obtain formal bank licenses in order to continue operating.
- Round 4That military leaders should be directly elected by citizens.
- Round 4That in the aftermath of the repeal of Section 377A, the LGBTQ+ movement in Singapore should actively prioritise fighting for reforms that impact the Trans community, at the exclusion of fighting for gay marriage.
- Round 4That the Philippines should disallow split-ticket voting.
- Round 5That we regret the rise of open-audition programs in the K-Pop industry.
- Round 5That we oppose the portrayal of vengeance in media as morally justified (e.g. John Wick, Kill Bill, Taken).
- Round 5That we regret the cooption of indigenous and minority languages, art and culture for fantasy and sci-fi worldbuilding.
- Round 6That we should break up the three big chocolate traders.
- Round 6That regulators should be granted divestiture powers.
- Round 6That we should ban personalised pricing.
- Round 7That we oppose the attempts of civil organisations in South Korea to inform North Korean citizens about their regime's wrongdoings (e.g. disseminating leaflets and ad balloons, smuggling USBs, transmitting cross-border radio waves).
- Round 7That we oppose Ukraine expanding military operations into Sudan and Syria.
- Round 7That the EU should give all legislative power to a single body.
- Round 8That renters of public housing should be allowed to purchase that housing at a discounted rate.
- Round 8That, in cities facing housing crises, we would remove all heritage protections in building codes.
- Round 8That, in states with a low fertility rate, we prefer policies with a familising effect rather than a de-familising effect.
- OctofinalsThat we support Indonesia's revision of their green investment rulebook.
- OctofinalsThat we support the proposed expansion of the public interest test.
- OctofinalsThat governments should enter into offtake agreements with emerging manufacturers of green energy technology.
- QuarterfinalsThat we would not grant legal protections to the wishes of the dead.
- QuarterfinalsThat we support funding orders in class action litigation.
- QuarterfinalsThat Māori should pursue redress for colonisation through novel legal claims rather than through the Waitangi Tribunal.
- SemifinalsThat we prefer all human genome editing experiments to be approved by the WHO rather than domestic regulatory bodies.
- SemifinalsThat we support a requirement for US state medical boards to be made up of a majority of non-doctors.
- SemifinalsThat we support Microsoft’s investment into OpenAI.
- Grand FinalThat the South Korean government should redirect resources currently used to help Koryo-in settle in their respective countries of residence, to efforts to resettle them in South Korea.
- Grand FinalThat we oppose Australia's 501 policy.
- Grand FinalThat we oppose countries adopting ‘pull-back’ measures to respond to the influx of irregular migrants.
- ESL SemifinalsThat we prefer all human genome editing experiments to be approved by the WHO rather than domestic regulatory bodies.
- ESL SemifinalsThat we support a requirement for US state medical boards to be made up of a majority of non-doctors.
- ESL SemifinalsThat we support Microsoft’s investment into OpenAI.
- ESL FinalsThat we regret self-denial in religion (e.g. celibacy, fasting, giving up material or sensory pleasures).
- ESL FinalsThat, in multireligious states, schools should teach integrated religious education instead of separated religious education.
- ESL FinalsThat we regret the influence of the Filipino Catholic Church in the People Power Revolution.
- EFL FinalsThat the National Semiconductor Strategy is in the interests of Malaysia.
- EFL FinalsThat we would discontinue the Jakarta capital city relocation project.
- EFL FinalsThat it is in China's interests to abandon the CPEC project.
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.
What gets set here
Economics1%
Sport1%
Politics1%
Social & Identity1%
Arts & Culture0%
Pop Culture0%
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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: 12 of 50 teams broke.
- 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
- 2024cut unknown · 77.2 speaks19/62
- 20257 pts · 77.1 speaks12/50
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break12 teams
- English as a Second Language break2 teams
- English as a Foreign Language break3 teams
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