Motions

Open Grand Finals

  • 1
    THW Not Shoot the Naked Soldier
  • 2
    Assuming the technology exists, THW forcibly return his memories.
  • 3
    THBT the dead are the property of the State.

    • Novice Finals

  • 1
    THW accept the offer.
  • 2
    Assuming the switch will never be discovered, This house will tell the poor couple their baby died and hand the surviving baby over to the wealthy couple.
  • 3
    TH prefers cosmopolitanism to more limited identity constructs (for example nationalism)

    • Open Semi Finals

  • 1
    THBT anti-skilled immigration policies is in the interest of the U.S. middle class
  • 2
    THO the norm of a bias towards mental accounting.
  • 3
    This House Prefers a world where currencies were continued to be pegged to the gold standard.

    • Round 5

  • 1
    THR the involvement of the church, its leaders and the language of religion in truth and conciliation processes.
  • 2
    In countries where gay marriage has been legalised, THBT religious institutions should be compelled to conduct gay wedding ceremonies.
  • 3
    THBT atheists should fund research that is likely to expose as false historical claims made by religions (for example, the claim that a religious figure existed in a certain place and time in history).

    • Round 4

  • 1
    THW take official efforts to make contact with the Sentinelese tribe
  • 2
    THO Lee Kuan Yew’s cult of personality
  • 3
    This House Would teach and encourage emotional regulation over expressiveness in schools and workplaces.

    • Round 3

  • 1
    Assuming fan satisfaction and artistic vision are in conflict, TH, as a director of a popular long running show, would prioritize fan satisfaction over their personal artistic vision for a series finale.
  • 2
    This house prefers LGBTQ+ art and media that are celebratory (e.g., Heartstopper, Rookie, Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan) over ones that are tragic (e.g., A Little Life, Call Me by Your Name, Take Me to Church by Hozier)
  • 3
    THO TV shows glorifying the "winning at all cost" mentality (e.g. Suits, Whiplash, etc.)

    • Round 2

  • 1
    This House Supports the adoption of the The Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill
  • 2
    THBT developing nations should place limits on internal migration to Megacities (e.g., Delhi, Lagos, Jakarta)
  • 3
    THW impose stricter marketing and credit-card regulations* to curb compulsive buying. *(This includes but is not limited to banning techniques that guilts consumers into buying or spending more, mandatory debt warnings on credit card applications, imposing progressive interest rates on credit card users who spend beyond a set monthly limit)

    • Round 1

  • 1
    TH, 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, would choose to send our children to the predominantly African-American school.
  • 2
    THBT feminist movement should fight the social norms that stigmatises paying for sexual services.
  • 3
    TH, as a dual income working couple, would send their child to boarding school