Motions

Open Grand Final

  • 1
    That the modern breast feeding movement has done more harm than good
  • 2
    That feminists should oppose drag culture
  • 3
    That feminists should refrain from using the act of sex to further their personal or political goals
  • ESL Grand Final

  • 1
    That we should oppose the Teach for All programme.
  • 2
    That as a middle class African-American parent, given the choice between an under-performing but predominantly African American school and a high performing but predominantly white school, we should choose to send our children to the predominantly African-American school.
  • 3
    That we should give control of education curriculum administration and policy (eg teacher pay and curricula) to teachers’ unions.
  • Open Semifinals

  • 1
    That we should abolish corporate/company tax.
  • 2
    That we should establish an international body responsible for taxing and redistributing income earned by multi-national corporations such as Facebook and Google.
  • 3
    That we should allow income splitting. (Income splitting allows a person to allocate part of their income to their partner for tax purposes. Eg Kirkby earns $0, Nick earns $100,000. Each is taxed at $50,000 each. It is not taxing them at $100,000 as if they are one person.)
  • Open Quarterfinals

  • 1
    That we regret the efforts of the United States to make housing more affordable.
  • 2
    That we, as China, should compensate venture capital/private equity firms for investment losses in China.
  • 3
    That the pro-Palestine movement should not liken Israel to apartheid.
  • ESL Semifinals

  • 1
    That the narrative that charitable initiatives can be profitable (eg microfinancing, impact investment) has done more harm than good.
  • 2
    That charities should not accept donations made by public figures as part of a public apology (eg public figures who are criticised for being misogynists and then donate to domestic violence charities).
  • 3
    That the state should not provide legal recognition and support to charities whose main goal is to raise awareness.
  • Open Octofinals

  • 1
    That, where home schooling exists, we should ban religious individuals from homeschooling their children.
  • 2
    That we, as the Catholic Church, would abolish sainthoods and canonisation.
  • 3
    That individuals should always have the right to temporarily enter a state for the purposes of pilgrimage.
  • Round 8

  • 1
    That where the state has negotiated a sale of public land they must first offer indigenous groups the chance to purchase the land on the same terms.
  • 2
    That the state should exclusively focus on recifying current inequalities to the exclusion of compensating for historical injustices
  • 3
    That local communities should be able to cap the number of tourists that enter their region over a specific period of time
  • Round 7

  • 1
    That we should legalise secondary strikes/solidarity action. (industrial action taken by a workforce in support of another, separate workforce)
  • 2
    That we should allow employees to give up workplace rights in exchange for higher wages.
  • 3
    That we would prefer a world where the norm is that people hold multiple part time jobs instead of the current norm of one full time job.
  • Round 6

  • 1
    That citizenships should be placed on an international market for sale and purchase.
  • 2
    That the European Union should opt for less integration among its current member states.
  • 3
    That refugees should be able to bypass standard refugee quotas and procedures if they have an individual citizen take responsibility for them.
  • Round 5

  • 1
    That we should ban animal eugenics programmes (eg: selective breeding and pure breeding)
  • 2
    That we should cease all state initiated conservation projects
  • 3
    That we should oppose giving human rights to individual animals who pass self-recognition tests unless the whole species are granted those rights
  • Round 4

  • 1
    That public universities should not implement speech codes or codes of conduct that limit expression beyond the laws of that country.
  • 2
    That we should regret the increasing dominance of academic discourse in civil rights movements (eg gender studies to feminism and queer studies to that queer rights movement)
  • 3
    That universities and companies should only be allowed to recruit students and employees via a blind application process.
  • Round 3

  • 1
    That we should reject the culture of fearing death.
  • 2
    That we would prefer a world with only one language.
  • 3
    That humans should attempt to suppress their sense of beauty.
  • Round 2

  • 1
    That we should allow people to sue media companies over harms that are created due to factual misinformation that they published.
  • 2
    That we should regret dating/hookup websites allowing their users filtering results on the basis of demographic characteristics (race, gender, age etc.)
  • 3
    That Facebook should proactively suppress extremist content
  • Round 1

  • 1
    That where private prisons exist, they should be allowed to train/educate inmates in return for a percentage of that prisoner’s income that they earn after they leave prison.
  • 2
    That we should ban litigation funding.
  • 3
    That the state should fully compensate the victims of crimes committed by recidivist criminals.