ANU Spring 2025

1. 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)Practise this motion
2. Round 2This house believes that Australia should nationalise its struggling heavy industrial plants rather than subsidising private owners to run themPractise this motion
3. Round 3This house, as the Catholic Church, supports the growing number of conversions inspired by right-wing online “Trad Cath” communitiesPractise this motion
4. Round 4This house supports the academisation of creative artsPractise this motion
5. Round 5This house supports the establishment of government run grocery stores in urban food desertsPractise this motion
6. SemifinalsThis house supports the sex exceptionalist view of sexual harmPractise this motion
7. Novice FinalThis house believes that history is thick rather than thinPractise this motion
8. Grand FinalThis house believes that the US rescue package for Argentina is in the interests of the Trump administrationPractise this motion

1. Round 1aTHS a significant increase in the prevalence of bilingual education systemsPractise this motion
2. Round 1bTBHT education systems should heavily prioritise the teaching of local literature over the global canonPractise this motion
3. Round 2TH, as a wealthy art collector, would choose to invest in red-chip art over blue chip art.Practise this motion
4. 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 gamePractise this motion
5. Round 4TH, as Vietnam, would significantly prioritize relations with the West over ChinaPractise this motion
6. Round 5THW livestream criminal trialsPractise this motion
7. 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)Practise this motion
8. Grand FinalTHP a world where the US had aggressively pushed for total global nuclear disarmament at the end of the Cold WarPractise this motion
9. Novice FinalsIn ethnically diverse countries, THW require all neighbourhoods to represent the ethnic makeup of that countryPractise this motion

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1. 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)Practise this motion
2. Round 1BThis house supports the manufacture of cheap, generic versions of medications and vaccines, in violation of western patents.Practise this motion
3. Round 2This house prefers the holistic education model to systems of student choice.Practise this motion
4. Round 3This house believes prominent male feminists should actively encourage cis-straight men to participate in drag culture.Practise this motion
5. Round 4This house, as China, would abandon Wolf-Warrior diplomacy.Practise this motion
6. 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)Practise this motion
7. QuarterfinalsThis house would impose B-Corporation requirements into the governing constitutions of all large companies.Practise this motion
8. SemifinalsThis house opposes the ascension of Naftali Bennet to the Israeli premiership.Practise this motion
9. ESL Grand FinalThis house believes that journalists who support a Palestinian state should deprioritise Hamas' role in the escalation of the conflict.Practise this motion
10. Novice GFThis house believes that religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings.Practise this motion
11. Grand FinalThis house supports the use of ‘right to privacy’ arguments to advance social causes (for example, the decriminalisation of abortion and homosexuality).Practise this motion

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