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ANU Spring 2025
2025-11-15 · Australia, Hybrid · BP
Motions
ANU Spring 2025 (2025)8 motions
- Round 1This house supports the use of welfare systems to promote socially utile choices in people's personal lives (e.g. decisions about relationships, fertility and living arrangements)
- Round 2This house believes that Australia should nationalise its struggling heavy industrial plants rather than subsidising private owners to run them
- Round 3This house, as the Catholic Church, supports the growing number of conversions inspired by right-wing online “Trad Cath” communities
- Round 4This house supports the academisation of creative arts
- Round 5This house supports the establishment of government run grocery stores in urban food deserts
- SemifinalsThis house supports the sex exceptionalist view of sexual harm
- Novice FinalThis house believes that history is thick rather than thin
- Grand FinalThis house believes that the US rescue package for Argentina is in the interests of the Trump administration
What gets set here
Politics25%
Economics13%
Religion13%
Education13%
Law & Crime13%
Philosophy13%
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20% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.8.
Last edition: 11 of 54 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break11 teams
- Novice break6 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 Neva M. | MG | This house supports the use of welfare systems to promote socially utile choices in people's personal lives (e.g. decisions about relationships, fertility and living arrangements) | 84 |
| Krishaang K. | MG | This house supports the academisation of creative arts | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Lachie D. | GW | This house believes that Australia should nationalise its struggling heavy industrial plants rather than subsidising private owners to run them | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Elanor P. | DLO | This house, as the Catholic Church, supports the growing number of conversions inspired by right-wing online “Trad Cath” communities | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Lachie D. | DLO | This house supports the use of welfare systems to promote socially utile choices in people's personal lives (e.g. decisions about relationships, fertility and living arrangements) | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Maya A. | MG | This house believes that Australia should nationalise its struggling heavy industrial plants rather than subsidising private owners to run them | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Izzy S. | GW | This house believes that Australia should nationalise its struggling heavy industrial plants rather than subsidising private owners to run them | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Xavier K. | MG | This house believes that Australia should nationalise its struggling heavy industrial plants rather than subsidising private owners to run them | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Gypsy P. | DLO | This house, as the Catholic Church, supports the growing number of conversions inspired by right-wing online “Trad Cath” communities | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Archie W. | GW | This house supports the use of welfare systems to promote socially utile choices in people's personal lives (e.g. decisions about relationships, fertility and living arrangements) | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Maya A. | LO | This house supports the use of welfare systems to promote socially utile choices in people's personal lives (e.g. decisions about relationships, fertility and living arrangements) | 83 |
| Isobel D. | PM | This house supports the establishment of government run grocery stores in urban food deserts | 83 |
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