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Australian BPDC 2025
2025-10-04 · Australia, In person · BP
Part of the Australian British Parliamentary Debating Championship (ABPDC) series →
Motions from this series
Australian BPDC 2025 (2025)9 motions
- Round 1This House supports the Albanese government’s social media age restrictions
- Round 2This House believes that Australia should create a separate democratically-elected legislature with sole authority to create policy and determine spending on energy
- Round 3This House prefers the narrative that you can never really know yourself, over the narrative that emphasises the need to "find yourself"
- Round 4At the conclusion of the Russo-Ukrainian War, this House believes that it is in the interests of the EU to publicly guarantee and subsequently grant Ukraine EU membership within 5 years
- Round 5This House prefers that Brazilian feminists oppose, rather than support, cosmetic surgery culture
- Round 6This House believes that top academic journals should publish by selecting and formally reviewing drafts from preprint servers
- QuarterfinalsThis House prefers water trading systems to riparian water rights systems
- SemifinalsThis House believes that the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic should accept the Western Sahara Autonomy Proposal
- Grand FinalThis House predicts that gender inequality in the West will worsen, rather than improve, in the next 10 years
Australian BPDC 2024 (2024)9 motions
- Round 1This House believes that the New South Wales government should incentivise Sydneysiders to move to Wollongong and commute to Sydney
- Round 2This House opposes the narrative that one should seek to forgive those who have wronged them
- Round 3This House regrets the merging of pharmaceutical companies into extremely large firms
- Round 4This House regrets the partition of India
- Round 5This House opposes the glorification of good citizenship
- Round 6This House would abolish the Common Agricultural Policy
- QuarterfinalsThis House prefers the centralised model of managing Islamic banks' compliance with Sharia Law to the individual model
- SemifinalsThis House would introduce a mandatory no-fault insurance scheme for organisations that deploy AI in their operations (e.g. rideshare services using driverless cars, businesses using AI chatbots to assist customers, companies using AI pricing algorithms to enter into contracts for sale of goods)
- Grand FinalThis House supports the feminist movement embracing sex positivity
Australian BPDC 2023 (2023)9 motions
- Round 1This House supports the privatisation of humanitarian intervention (eg, the UN hires mercenaries and private military contractors (PMCs) for peacekeeping, states hire mercenaries and PMCs to intervene in conflict)
- Round 2This House would abolish R&Rs
- Round 3In areas where abortion is legal and readily accessible, this House would allow paper abortions
- Round 4This House opposes "school choice" in liberal democracies.
- Round 5This House prefers occupation unionism to sector unionism
- Round 6This House believes that governments should provide disabled people with a direct stipend rather than state-owned disability services
- QuarterfinalsThis House opposes the idea that 'consent is sexy'
- SemifinalsThis House believes that developing countries should heavily encourage people to borrow from formal domestic banks
- Grand FinalThis House believes that young people raised in social democracies will trend towards conservatism
Australian BPDC 2022 (2022)7 motions
- Round 1THR the creation of dating apps and websites
- Round 2THBT developed nations should end all protectionism for their domestic agricultural sectors
- Round 3This house opposes central regulation of cultural products
- Round 4THR the popularisation of ballroom culture
- Round 5TH, as the Russian government, would impose a total energy embargo on Europe
- SemifinalsTHR attempts to alter blockchain codes
- Grand FinalTHR the decline of Spain's universal jurisdiction regime
What gets set here
Social & Identity29%
Economics24%
Politics12%
International Relations12%
Technology9%
Education6%
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30% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 78.7.
Last edition: 17 of 68 teams broke.
- 20229 pts · 79.0 speaks8/21
- 202312 pts · 78.2 speaks16/54
- 202411 pts · 77.7 speaks16/56
- 202512 pts · 79.9 speaks17/68
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Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 Elinor S. | MG | This House believes that Australia should create a separate democratically-elected legislature with sole authority to create policy and determine spending on energy | 85 |
| 🇦🇺 Charlie R. | DPM | This House prefers the narrative that you can never really know yourself, over the narrative that emphasises the need to "find yourself" | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Maya A. | LO | This House prefers the narrative that you can never really know yourself, over the narrative that emphasises the need to "find yourself" | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Sophie S. | PM | This House believes that top academic journals should publish by selecting and formally reviewing drafts from preprint servers | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Elinor S. | DLO | This House believes that top academic journals should publish by selecting and formally reviewing drafts from preprint servers | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Sophie S. | LO | This House prefers that Brazilian feminists oppose, rather than support, cosmetic surgery culture | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Elinor S. | PM | This House prefers that Brazilian feminists oppose, rather than support, cosmetic surgery culture | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Alexis M. | DPM | This House believes that top academic journals should publish by selecting and formally reviewing drafts from preprint servers | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 William M. | MG | At the conclusion of the Russo-Ukrainian War, this House believes that it is in the interests of the EU to publicly guarantee and subsequently grant Ukraine EU membership within 5 years | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Zaakir Z. | GW | This House believes that Australia should create a separate democratically-elected legislature with sole authority to create policy and determine spending on energy | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Charlie R. | DLO | This House believes that Australia should create a separate democratically-elected legislature with sole authority to create policy and determine spending on energy | 83 |
| Angus M. | GW | At the conclusion of the Russo-Ukrainian War, this House believes that it is in the interests of the EU to publicly guarantee and subsequently grant Ukraine EU membership within 5 years | 83 |
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