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Wollongong Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2026
Jul 2, 2026 · Australia · AP
Part of the Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championship (Australs) series →
Motions
Wollongong Australs 2026 (2026)45 motions
- Round 1That we support football clubs taking a harsh stance on the managers and coaches of underperforming teams (e.g. putting them on probation, frequently replacing them etc.)
- Round 1That we regret the Bosman Ruling
- Round 1That, as the smaller full member cricket nations, we support the increasing dominance of franchise cricket over international cricket
- Round 2That we prefer a world where everyone had an average amount of empathy
- Round 2That we regret the rise of 'self-crit' culture
- Round 2That we regret the Griner-Bout prisoner exchange
- Round 3That we oppose the NCMP scheme
- Round 3That we oppose the removal of these benefits for conscripts
- Round 3That in countries with bicameral legislatures, we prefer the equal contribution system to the equal representation system
- Round 4That we support the Australian government aggressively growing its domestic refinement and production of rare earth minerals
- Round 4That as an Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander novelist, we would write about Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander experiences within modern Australian cities rather than life within traditional communities
- Round 4That the Australia Group should adopt a binding export-control regime
- Round 5That, as a 30 year-old working woman who plans to have children, we would choose to have our pregnancies within a short period rather than spacing them out over a long period
- Round 5That, as a woman entering university, we would cultivate a polarising reputation (strongly liked by some, disliked by others) rather than a broadly agreeable one.
- Round 5That we believe that the decline of geographically concentrated red light districts in India (Kamathipura, Sonagachi, etc.) has not been in the interests of sex workers
- Round 6That the deployment of tripwire forces in disputed territories in the South China Sea is in the interest of the United States
- Round 6That, as Taiwan, we would aggressively pursue the Porcupine Strategy
- Round 6That we oppose the ‘unwilling or unable’ doctrine
- Round 7That we oppose Rafizi Ramli and Nik Nazmi's decision to break away from PKR and lead BERSAMA
- Round 7That we regret the ALP tax reform package
- Round 7That we oppose Andy Burnham's promise to retain Labour's prior budget guardrails
- Round 8That we prefer career judiciary systems, to those where judges are appointed late in their life
- Round 8That we support the Independent Forfeiture Act
- Round 8That we should abolish the offence of concealing a serious indictable offence
- Debate-offThat we should grant dictators amnesty in exchange for them stepping down
- Debate-offThat developing countries should ban members of political dynasties from standing for political office
- Debate-offThat we believe regimes accused of committing human rights violations should be investigated by Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, rather than being subject to punitive mechanisms
- Open Pre-QuarterfinalsThat we believe that Benjamin Netanyahu will be the next Prime Minister of Israel
- Open Pre-QuarterfinalsThat California should abolish Riparian and Appropriative water rights and instead charge market rates to all water users
- Open Pre-QuarterfinalsThat it is in the interests of liberals in the USA to advocate for greater state autonomy (e.g. lower federal taxation and higher state taxation, greater autonomy for state governments on labour and environmental laws)
- Open QuarterfinalsThat we regret the rise of e-carceration
- Open QuarterfinalsThat, assuming feasibility, we should replace elected representatives with an assembly of each voter's AI agent
- Open QuarterfinalsThat, assuming feasibility, we support a one year AI Pause between the Big Five AI labs
- Open SemifinalsThat, as Egypt, we would pursue a strategy of military sabotage against the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)
- Open SemifinalsThat we support the 'One Army' plan in Syria
- Open SemifinalsThat Turkey's decision to close the Bosporus and Dardanelles to warships since 2022 has been in Russia's interest
- Open Grand FinalThat humanity should voluntarily adopt the last generation policy
- Open Grand FinalThat Earth's first settlement mission to another habitable planet should be a generation ship rather than a cryogenic mission
- Open Grand FinalThat Gongzhou should vote in favour of abandoning Earth’s charter
- ESL FinalsThat, assuming feasibility, Ghana should cap the maximum cost of a funeral
- ESL FinalsThat we oppose Malaysia's attempts to resettle the Bajau
- ESL FinalsThat we oppose ethnographic refusal
- EFL FinalsThat we prefer to be born into a society with high-context norms over one with low-context norms
- EFL FinalsThat we regret the decline of Sufism in the Indian subcontinent
- EFL FinalsThat we oppose the adoption of Māori cuisine by elite culinary institutions
Breaking here
23% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 7 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 77.3.
Last edition: 13 of 56 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break13 teams
- ESL break3 teams
- EFL break3 teams
- Debate-off break2 teams
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