UQ ABPDC 2026

1. Round 1This House prefers the Tate Modern model to the MoMA modelPractise this motion
2. Round 2This House regrets the developments that occurred in the Tasmanian poppy industry during the 1990sPractise this motion
3. Round 3This House prefers a world where the teaching profession adopted a professional services modelPractise this motion
4. Round 4This House believes that opting into being a Tradwife is immoralPractise this motion
5. Round 5This House believes that it is in the interests of Australia to support the aggressive domestic construction of data centresPractise this motion
6. Round 6This House opposes the Algerian LawPractise this motion
7. QuarterfinalsThis House believes that it is in Vietnam’s interests for Tô Lâm to serve as both President and General SecretaryPractise this motion
8. SemifinalsThis House prefers a world where religious peoples predominantly believed in national as opposed to universal gods or deitiesPractise this motion
9. Grand FinalThis House supports the Wife being found not guiltyPractise this motion

1. Round 1This House supports the Albanese government’s social media age restrictionsPractise this motion
2. Round 2This House believes that Australia should create a separate democratically-elected legislature with sole authority to create policy and determine spending on energyPractise this motion
3. Round 3This House prefers the narrative that you can never really know yourself, over the narrative that emphasises the need to "find yourself"Practise this motion
4. 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 yearsPractise this motion
5. Round 5This House prefers that Brazilian feminists oppose, rather than support, cosmetic surgery culturePractise this motion
6. Round 6This House believes that top academic journals should publish by selecting and formally reviewing drafts from preprint serversPractise this motion
7. QuarterfinalsThis House prefers water trading systems to riparian water rights systemsPractise this motion
8. SemifinalsThis House believes that the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic should accept the Western Sahara Autonomy ProposalPractise this motion
9. Grand FinalThis House predicts that gender inequality in the West will worsen, rather than improve, in the next 10 yearsPractise this motion

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1. Round 1This House believes that the New South Wales government should incentivise Sydneysiders to move to Wollongong and commute to SydneyPractise this motion
2. Round 2This House opposes the narrative that one should seek to forgive those who have wronged themPractise this motion
3. Round 3This House regrets the merging of pharmaceutical companies into extremely large firmsPractise this motion
4. Round 4This House regrets the partition of IndiaPractise this motion
5. Round 5This House opposes the glorification of good citizenshipPractise this motion
6. Round 6This House would abolish the Common Agricultural PolicyPractise this motion
7. QuarterfinalsThis House prefers the centralised model of managing Islamic banks' compliance with Sharia Law to the individual modelPractise this motion
8. 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)Practise this motion
9. Grand FinalThis House supports the feminist movement embracing sex positivityPractise this motion

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1. 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)Practise this motion
2. Round 2This House would abolish R&RsPractise this motion
3. Round 3In areas where abortion is legal and readily accessible, this House would allow paper abortionsPractise this motion
4. Round 4This House opposes "school choice" in liberal democracies.Practise this motion
5. Round 5This House prefers occupation unionism to sector unionismPractise this motion
6. Round 6This House believes that governments should provide disabled people with a direct stipend rather than state-owned disability servicesPractise this motion
7. QuarterfinalsThis House opposes the idea that 'consent is sexy'Practise this motion
8. SemifinalsThis House believes that developing countries should heavily encourage people to borrow from formal domestic banksPractise this motion
9. Grand FinalThis House believes that young people raised in social democracies will trend towards conservatismPractise this motion

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1. Round 1THR the creation of dating apps and websitesPractise this motion
2. Round 2THBT developed nations should end all protectionism for their domestic agricultural sectorsPractise this motion
3. Round 3This house opposes central regulation of cultural productsPractise this motion
4. Round 4THR the popularisation of ballroom culturePractise this motion
5. Round 5TH, as the Russian government, would impose a total energy embargo on EuropePractise this motion
6. SemifinalsTHR attempts to alter blockchain codesPractise this motion
7. Grand FinalTHR the decline of Spain's universal jurisdiction regimePractise this motion

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