Melbourne Mini 2026

1. Round 1This house, as a major European football club, would adopt a 'first-team coach' structure rather than a 'dominant manager' structure.Practise this motion
2. Round 2This house opposes the link between art and status* *The idea that people's interactions with art (including its consumption, production and their beliefs about art) are linked to their status. Different forms of art, and different ways of interacting with art, may signal higher or lower status.Practise this motion
3. Round 3This house believes that the founding of Anthropic has been good for AI safetyPractise this motion
4. Round 4This house prefers a largely-Protestant society to a largely-Catholic societyPractise this motion
5. Round 5This house believes that, in post-conflict societies, governments should actively attempt to recruit insurgents and militia into the army instead of trying to quash themPractise this motion
6. SemifinalsThis house would allow the creation of identity-group only spaces even where other groups excluded are on the basis of protected attributes (e.g. a woman only rideshare app that excludes trans-women, a mother's only career development event which excludes non-mothers)Practise this motion
7. Grand FinalThis house believes that the United States will experience a fiscal crisis in the 21st century.Practise this motion

1. Round 1This House regrets the decline in solidarity strikesPractise this motion
2. Round 2This House believes that individuals should be encouraged to make significant sacrifices for their communityPractise this motion
3. Round 3This House, as Iran, would accept the ‘Iran Deal Plus’.Practise this motion
4. Round 4This House supports the democratisation of powerful civil service appointmentsPractise this motion
5. Round 5Assuming feasibility, This House believes that the Holy Kaaba should be under the custody/guardianship of the OIC, instead of Saudi Arabia.Practise this motion
6. Novice SemifinalsThis House believes that progressive activists in conservative societies should aggressively adopt conservative language/rhetoric in advocating for their agenda.Practise this motion
7. Open SemifinalsThis House would mandate that social media users select middleware packages to curate the information they see on their social media accounts.Practise this motion
8. Novice FinalsThis House would prefer a world the average person experienced substantially less intense emotions.Practise this motion
9. Open Grand FinalThis House, as Moon Jae-In, would not have repatriated the North Korean defectorsPractise this motion
10. ESL FinalsThis House supports the creation of 'ASEAN bonds' to fund the post-COVID-19 regional economic recoveryPractise this motion

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