CA Team: Dan Lahav, Mubarrat Wassey, Bobbi Leet, Boemo Delano Phirinyane, Connor O'Brien, Milos Marjanovic, Sebastian Dasso, Sooyoung Park, Teck Wei Tan, Tejal Patwardhan
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CA Team: Ashish Kumar, Jasmine Ho, Michael Dunn-Goekjian, Ayal Hayut-Man, Archie Hall, Mayu Arimoto, Lucia Arce, Julio Meyer, Evan Lynyak, Cliff Simataa, Jessica Musulin
| Round | Motion | Infoslide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | This House would impose a BBC-style impartiality requirement on all news platforms. | The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is legally required to cover the news impartially. This means: 1. It cannot take sides on controversial issues. 2. The amount of coverage each viewpoint gets should roughly reflect the level of support that viewpoint has in society. 3. It is not required to be neutral on certain fundamental issues like the rule of law and the legitimacy of the democratic process. |
| 2 | This House supports the rapid global elimination of both tariff and non-tariff barriers to free trade. | |
| 3 | This House would allow children to sue their parents for religious indoctrination. | Indoctrination means teaching someone to accept beliefs uncritically. In the case of religion, this can include (but is not limited to) emphasising strict adherence to religious teachings and not presenting alternative viewpoints. |
| 4 | This House would abolish the Olympic Games. | |
| 5 | This House believes that the Mexican government should adopt measures that enable one cartel to monopolise the drug market. (These measures can include but are not limited to: targeting enemy cartels; selective arrests; stopping military deployments to areas controlled by this cartel; and renouncing the headhunt on its current leaders.) | |
| 6 | In liberal democracies, This House would implement a Social Credit System. | A Social Credit System is a national government-facilitated rating system that rewards citizens for good behaviour and sanctions them for bad behaviour. 1. It evaluates a defined set of actions that includes but goes beyond illegal or legally-obligatory acts (e.g., charitable donations, recycling, volunteer work; or jaywalking, and littering). 2. Scores can be given by members of the public, corporations, NGOs, and the government. 3. Based on these scores, the government applies rewards and sanctions (e.g., fast-track through airport security, government-subsidised mortgages, free public transportation; or higher tax, slower document-processing times, and increased barriers to public sector jobs). |
| 7 | This House believes that ASEAN should abandon "the ASEAN Way". | The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) comprises Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. At its formation, ASEAN adopted principles that have come to be known as “the ASEAN Way.” These principles place strong emphasis on national sovereignty, and a commitment to non-intervention in the affairs of member states. All ASEAN decisions are made unanimously. |
| 8 | This House believes that the feminist movement should support the narrative that "beauty does not matter" over the narrative that "all bodies are beautiful". | |
| 9 | This House would abolish primary and secondary school grades/years that group children based on age, and instead group them by competency and intelligence. | |
| EFL_Semis | This House prefers a world where, starting today, all humans have identical intellectual abilities (equivalent to the current global average). | |
| EFL_Final | This House would abolish the private ownership of (housing) property in major metropolitan areas. | |
| ESL_Quarters | In a relatively equal society where the "protected sphere model" is the norm, This House, as a parent, would raise their children according to the "deferred happiness model". | Under the "deferred happiness model" of parenting, there is strong emphasis on setting children up for a successful adulthood, including through a focus on academic or extracurricular achievement, structure, and discipline. Under the "protected sphere model" of parenting, there is strong emphasis on "letting children be children", including through a focus on playtime and personal enjoyment. |
| ESL_Semis | This House prefers a world without the Neuralink. | A highly-valued startup has invented Neuralink technology, which allows people's consciousnesses to be irreversibly uploaded into a powerful supercomputer and maintained indefinitely. |
| ESL_Final | This House believes that the United States government should cede the authority to prosecute criminal trials involving African Americans (as either victims or alleged perpetrators) to African American interest groups, and allocate funding for this. | |
| Open_Partial_Double_Octos | This House prefers religions in which all individuals have roughly equal religious obligations and are encouraged to develop a personal connection with the divine, over religions in which religious obligation and access to the divine are concentrated in religious authority figures. | |
| Open_Octos | This House prefers a cynical and pessimistic perception of democratic politics to an idealistic and optimistic one. | |
| Open_Quarters | This House believes that developing countries should acquire, on the open market, large stakes in major publicly-traded global corporations (eg. Google, JP Morgan, Shell, and Pfizer). | |
| Open_Semis | This House prefers a "Brave New World" to the status quo in Western Liberal Democracies. | A “Brave New World” has these characteristics: 1. People are genetically engineered and socially conditioned by the state for specific societal roles. 2. People's material and physical needs are unfailingly met. 3. There is no possibility of changing the social order. |
| Open_Final | This House, as China, would grant universal suffrage to Hong Kong. |
CA Team: Ameera Natasha Moore, Fanele Mashwama, Dan Lahav, Elisha Kunene, Enting Lee, Raffy Marshall, Steph White
| Round | Motion | Infoslide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | This House, as South Africa, would forcibly break up exclusive Afrikaaner enclaves | Afrikaaners are a white South African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers. |
| 2 | This House believes that the protections of international law conventions and treaties should not apply to combatants from terrorist organisations (e.g. prohibition on torture, prisoner of war status, guarantee of post-conflict release) | |
| 3 | This House opposes the norm that romantic love should be the primary source of fulfilment in a person's life | |
| 4 | This House believes that the ongoing process of decolonisation should include actively disempowering religions that were imposed on the country during colonialism | Decolonisation refers to the process of critiquing and moving away from value systems and influences that were imposed on countries during colonialism. Some examples include: removing statues of colonial figures e.g. Cecil Rhodes, prioritising indigenous narratives of history over colonial narratives, replacing colonial authors with local authors in curricula. |
| 5 | This House would implement substantial measures to impose long-termism in corporate investment culture (e.g. minimum holding periods for shares, yearly rather than quarterly financial reporting, long-term executive compensation plans) | |
| 6 | This House supports granting megacities autonomous control over their economic and social policy (e.g. immigration, health, criminal justice) with national taxation policy remaining under the control of the federal government | Megacities are cities with a population of over 10 million people |
| 7 | This House would actively encourage women not to have children | |
| 8 | This House believes that the United States should disengage from Syria | |
| 9 | This House believes that developing countries should privatise their State-Owned Enterprises (such as airlines, railway utility companies) | |
| EFL_Semis | This House would grant individuals and organisations open standing to challenge the constitutionality of laws enacted by their government | In most legal systems, in order to initiate legal proceedings, potential plaintiffs must demonstrate that they are directly involved in the issues of a case in a way that is distinct from general members of the public. This means that an ordinary citizen cannot challenge a law as unconstitutional if they cannot prove that it has, or is imminently likely to, directly affect them. A doctrine of open standing would allow anyone to initiate legal proceedings in court. Plaintiffs would still need to demonstrate a valid legal argument. For example, under the status quo, new healthcare legislation which may increase many people's premiums could not be challenged by a general member of the public. Under a doctrine of open standing it could be. |
| EFL_Final | This House believes that it is unjustified to assist evil regimes in systematically persecuting members of their identity group in order to mitigate and moderate the regime's abuses (e.g. Israel Kasztner in Nazi-controlled Hungary, Wang Jingwei in Japan-occupied China). | |
| ESL_Quarters | This House would subsidise art that glorifies the working class | |
| ESL_Semis | This House supports governments significantly increasing their use of big data-based predictive models in decision-making to replace human judgements (e.g. criminal justice policy, allocation of healthcare resources, housing development) | Recently there has been an increased use of big data and sophisticated algorithms in making various policy judgements. As technology in machine learning and artificial intelligence advances, it is becoming more feasible to apply such methods to more government decision making process. |
| ESL_Final | In the lead up to the 1994 negotiated settlement in South Africa, this house believes that the ANC should have demanded further concessions (e.g. removing the amnesty provision in the TRC, greater land and economic rights) even at the expense of prolonging the conflict. | |
| Open_Partial_Double_Octos | This House believes that the WHO should adopt a convention which bans the sell of drugs with high resistance tendencies (e.g. antibiotics) to countries which do not comply with WHO guidelines regarding their medical and agricultural use | The World Health Organisation has adopted conventions on various health topics which can impose binding regulations on member states. |
| Open_Octos | This House believes that an approach of Political Expansionism on the part of the Chinese state is in the interests of the Chinese people | For the purposes of this debate, "Political Expansionism" is an approach to international relations which involves exerting pressure over and intervening in the internal affairs of other states. It seeks to spread ideology and exercise influence over the political and information environments of the targeted countries through channels such as economic investment and backing political groups. |
| Open_Quarters | This House supports a norm of embracing anger in public discourse rather than one of aspiring to dispassionate objectivity | |
| Open_Semis | This House would impose a narrow banking regulation | In the status quo, financial institutions use the money deposited by customers (e.g. in a bank account) to make loans and investments. Deposits could alternatively be used to buy government-back safe assets (e.g. treasury bonds), which tend to have the lowest risk of default of all assets. In this debate, an “equity account” would be an account where the financial institution can use deposits for loans and investments. The value of an equity account fluctuates based on the value of its underlying assets. A “narrow banking” regulation is the requirement that all financial institutions back up all deposits with an equivalent value of government-back safe assets, unless customers choose to deposit their money in an “equity account”. |
| Open_Final | This House believes that the present condition of humanity is preferable to its condition in 100 years time. |
CA Team: Michael Dunn Goekjian, Mifzal Mohammed, Emma Johnstone, Sella Nevo, Wasifa Noshin, Steven Penner, Paul Smith, Evan Lynyak, Nicholas Ferezin
| Round | Motion | Infoslide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | This house would ban all communication tech companies (such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Whatsapp, etc.) from encrypting their users data, including the content of their communications, in such a way that the company cannot retrieve that data even under a court order. | |
| 2 | This house supports job security legislation. | For the purpose of this debate, “job security legislation” refers to laws intended to make businesses fire employees less often. Its goal is to disincentives the termination of existing employees, whether the business employs an alternative individual to replace them or not. Examples of this legislation include, but are not limited to, increased severance pay and detailed cause requirements for terminating employment. Protections against discriminatory termination or similar laws do not fall under this term. |
| 3 | This house would redefine the criterion for excessive force in the US to be any use of beyond what is reasonable given all the facts of the case, including the benefit of hindsight (e.g. whether the individual had a gun, not whether it was reasonable to believe he had a gun). | The current criterion in the US as to whether a police offices used excessive force is whether he acted reasonably given his perspective at the time and without the benefit of hindsight. Academic research has shown that when using this criterion, juries consistently conclude that officers harming or killing black individuals acted reasonably in almost all circumstances. |
| 4 | This house would limit the amount of time that a museum can display a given piece of art to 3 months out of every 10 year period, rather than allow museums to display their works as long as they choose. | The art that you see in a museum typically comes from one of the following sources: i) that museum’s permament collection that’s always on display, ii) that museum’s permament collection that is mostly kept in storage and may occasionally be displayed (the largest museums usually display as little as 5% of their collections); iii) pieces lent to that museum on a temporary basis by another museum iv) pieces donated or lent by private individuals or institutions. |
| 5 | This house would allow citizens to vote on individual bills in place of their representative, with the representative retaining the voting power of those of their constituents who did not directly vote on that specific bill. | |
| 6 | This house believes that all states should mandate that research on and use of CRISPR technology be exclusively carried out by institutions funded entirely by the state. | CRISPR is currently the only existing technology that allows cheap, fast and targeted gene edition in living organisms. It potentially allows for heritable* changes, though so far very little research on such heritable changes in humans has occurred. * heritable changes are changes that can be passed on from parents to their children. |
| 7 | This house, as Iran, would cease all support for military groups in the Middle East (e.g. Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, etc.). | |
| 8 | This house prefers a world in which all individuals who have achieved a middle class standard of living choose to pursue the highest level of achievement in their chosen career, rather than a wold in which those individuals priorities day-to-day enjoyment over work. | |
| 9 | This house would not allow out of court settlements for workplace discrimination and harrasment. | |
| EFL_Semis | This house believes that Catholic religious officials in Mexico should not make statements in support of governmental policies, political parties, or candidates. | |
| EFL_Final | This house believes that it is better for the general population to be more optimistic about the current and future state of the nation (including societal cohesion, peace processes, the state of the economy) than an objectively accurate judgement. | |
| ESL_Quarters | This house, as the Chinese Communist Party, would lift all restrictions on foreign investments in China, except restrictions critical to national security. | |
| ESL_Semis | This house prefers a non-adversarial legal system | |
| ESL_Final | In democratic post-colonial states, This house believes that opposition parties to the party of independence should claim and use the legacy of anti-colonial resistance. | |
| Open_Partial_Double_Octos | This house believes that ASEAN should negotiate all investment deals with Chinese government entities as a bloc (with decisions made by majority vote of its members), so that no member state can enter into investment deals without the rest of the world. | |
| Open_Octos | This house supports the court's decision to acquit Tehlirian | |
| Open_Quarters | This house, as a parent of a child with ASPD, would enable and support that child given that child’s aims based on their current psychological makeup, instead of trying to make them more empathic. | Individuals with Anti-Social Personality Disorder (ASPD), formerly known as sociopathy, have a highly reduced ability to feel empathy. People with ASPD do potentially have the ability to feel empathy, and, as with other emotions, their capacity to feel empathy can be increased based on exposure to certain experiences and relationships, yet is unlikely to reach what is considered a “normal” level. |
| Open_Semis | This house would create an international court with the ability to classify national debt as “Odious Debt” at the debtor nation’s request and remove the obligation of that nation to pay. | |
| Open_Final | This House would rather save the live of a single child over extending the life of 5 adults by 10 years |
CA Team: Syed Saddiq, Karin Merckens, Hyewon Rho, Michael Dunn Goekjian, Omer Nevo, Jodie O'Neill, Veenu Goswami, Yashodhan Nair, Ingrid Rodriguez
| Round | Motion | Infoslide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | This House believes that post-genocidal regimes should destroy all places of extermination (for example, death camps) | |
| 2 | This House would allow members of the armed forces to form labour unions | |
| 3 | This House believes that sports leagues should significantly tax and redistribute from wealthier teams to poorer teams | |
| 4 | In areas with rapidly rising property prices, This House would suspend all restrictions on property development that are not health and safety requirements (for example, environmental zoning regulations, building height restrictions, and regulations on the appearance of buildings) | |
| 5 | This House believes that the Netherlands should allow citizens to purchase additional votes from the government at a cost proportional to their wealth (for example, one additional vote for 1% of wealth) | |
| 6 | This House believes that the world would be a better place if women from privileged backgrounds turned down any benefits arising from affirmative action programs. | |
| 7 | This House believes that South Korea should produce nuclear weapons | |
| 8 | This House regrets the glamorization of start-up culture that encourages people to start their own companies rather than pursue traditional career paths | |
| 9 | This House would temporarily and significantly relax minimum labour standards in times of unusually high unemployment, including workplace health and safety standards, minimum wage, working hours restrictions etc. | |
| EFL_Final | THBT the European left should promote a hard left agenda, including the nationalisation of major industry, very high tax rates on wealthy, and expansion of the welfare states. | |
| ESL_Quarters | This House believes that the US government should provide significant campaign funding for US congressmen and senators who score highly on bi-partisan metrics. | Scores derived from instances of voting with the other party, co-sponsoring bills, etc., calculated by independent bodies. |
| ESL_Semis | This house, as the pope, would abolish the requirement for clerical celibacy. | |
| ESL_Semi | TH would establish English as primary language for education in China (inexact) | |
| ESL_Final | THW force all news organisations to operate as non-profits | |
| Open_Partial_Double_Octos | This house believes that countries close to conflict zones should only grant long-term asylum to refugees who agree to one year of military service. | |
| Open_Octos | This house would ban advocacy for religious belief in public places | |
| Open_Quarters | THBT all governments should designate and publicly announce a list of financial institutions that they would bail out in the event of a crisis | |
| Open_Semis | TH, as the Chinese Communist Party, will allow fair and competitive elections for local elections | |
| Open_Final | This House would apply universal jurisdiction to crimes against the environment |
CA Team: Manos Moschopoulos, Arinah Najwa, Chris Bisset, John McKee, Josh Zoffer, Sarah Balakrishnan, Tasneem Elias
| Round | Motion | Infoslide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | THW allow states to use mercenary forces in combat roles in active military operations | Mercenaries are soldiers for hire outside of national armed forces. They can be hired either as individuals contracted by a state or through companies offering these services to a state. |
| 2 | THW prohibit private ownership of art deemed to be culturally or historically significant | |
| 3 | THBT all states should collectively aggregate and evenly distribute all revenue from mineral wealth globally on a per capita basis | |
| 4 | THBT governments with racially diverse populations should never record the ethnic or racial background of their residents | |
| 5 | THBT the US should withdraw from East Asia and cede regional hegemony to China. | |
| 6 | THBT states should adopt sunset clauses that legally force them to review and either re-authorize or revise their constitutions every generation | A sunset clause is a legal measure that provides that the law in which it is contained shall expire after a specific date, unless further action is taken to extend it. |
| 7 | TH supports stronger collective bargaining rights and protections rather than legislated labor market regulations (e.g., wage levels and working conditions) | |
| 8 | THBT the creation of feminist icons and their cults of personality are good for the feminist movement | |
| 9 | THBT criminal punishments should be based only on the offenders' culpability rather than the damages caused by the criminal act or other outcomes derived from the punishment | Culpability is a measure of the degree to which a person can be held morally responsible for an offense. |
| EFL_Semis | TH would retrospectively criminalise excessively risky management practises for economically significant corporations and prosecute the executives responsible for them. | |
| EFL_Final | THBT campaigners for refugee protection should not use pictures displaying the graphic suffering of refugees as part of their advocacy. | |
| ESL_Quarters | THW prefer a world in which extremely wealthy people in Western liberal states donate excess money to their governments rather than to charities | |
| ESL_Semis | THB the West should prioritize stability over exporting democracy in foreign policy | |
| ESL_Finals | TH supports the decline of the nations-state's power in an increasingly globalized world. | |
| Masters_1 | Assuming the technology to do so easily and safely exists, THW force everyone in society to undergo periodic sex changes. | |
| Masters_2 | THW kill baby Hitler | |
| Open_Partials | TH regrets mainstream, commercial films that depict historical subjugation and/or crimes against humanity. | |
| Open_Octos | TH would nationalize all systemically important financial institutions, such as banks and insurance companies. | |
| Open_Quarters | TH supports the establishment of a Black secessionary state within the territory of the United States, the founding of which is supported by the American government. | |
| Open_Semis | THBT non-western countries who were once colonized, when fabricating the material culture of national identity (anthems, street names, holidays, flag, etc.) should privilege pre colonial history and notions of indigeneity over themes of anti colonial resistance. | |
| Open_Final | THBT the world's poor would be justified in pursuing complete Marxist revolution. |
CA Team: Shafiq Bazari, Jonathan Leader Maynard, Danique Van Koppenhagen, Sebastian Templeton, Engin Arikan, Brett Frazer, Madeline Schultz
| Round | Motion | Infoslide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | THR the decline of tightly integrated families | |
| 2 | THBT environmental movements should support climate engineering that fundamentally alters the environment in an attempt to combat global warming | |
| 3 | THBT in areas of socio-economic deprivation, schools should train students in vocational skills to the exclusion of the liberal arts | |
| 4 | THW prohibit the media from reporting on the mental illness of those accused of crimes | |
| 5 | THBT the international community should cut off internet access in Syria | |
| 6 | THBT developing countries should adopt economic development policies that heavily disincentivise urbanisation | |
| 7 | THW ban the research and production of moral enhancement drugs | |
| 8 | THBT the US and EU should seek to promote peace by heavily subsidising Israeli businesses who invest in the Palestinian territories | |
| 9 | TH, as a medical professional employed by the US military or security sevices, would, and would encourage others, to refuse orders to provide medical treatment to individuals undergoing 'enhanced interrogation techniques' | |
| EFL_Semis | THW ban its citizens from visiting illiberal states whose economies depend on tourism | |
| EFL_Final | THBT progressive politicians in conservative societies should pander to bigots, racists, hardline conservatives and others with regressive views in attempting to win elections | |
| ESL_Quarters | THBT the African-American community should actively oppose 'broken windows policies' | |
| ESL_Semis | THW strictly limit the replacement of workers with technology by companies | |
| ESL_Finals | THBT liberal democracies that overthrow the governments of other states should impose power-sharing, even when this severely overrides or delays democratic representation | |
| Masters_1 | TH regrets the rise of art that celebrates gaining material wealth | |
| Masters_2 | THBT judges should deliberately misinterpret constitutions to protect important liberties | |
| Open_Partials | THW allow corporations to use hackers to retaliate against cyberattacks where the state seems unwilling or unable to do so | |
| Open_Octos | THBT disadvantaged groups should emphasise their conformity with, rather than distinctiveness from, dominant culture, as a strategy for improving their social position | |
| Open_Quarters | TH regrets the decline of secular pan-Arab nationalism | |
| Open_Semis | THBT all states should create special economic zones in cities, where all economic activities (except the purchase of goods and services) are carried out by women | |
| Open_Final | THBT humanitarian organisations should, and should be allowed to, give funding, resources or services to illegal armed groups when this is made a condition for access to vulnerable civilians |
CA Team: Michael Baer, Harish Natarajan, Ely Zosa, Stephen Whittington, Fiona Prowse, Michael Shapira
| Round | Motion | Infoslide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | THBT the United States of America should fund moderate Madrassas (schools of Islamic study) throughout the Islamic world | |
| 2 | THW allow first-time offenders to, with the consent of the victims, pay compensation to them in place of a prison sentence | |
| 3 | TH regrets the rise of a 'hookup culture' (one which accepts and encourages casual sexual encounters focused on physical pleasure, without necessarily including emotional bonding) | |
| 4 | THBT developing countries should ban members of political dynasties from standing for elected office | |
| 5 | THBT the Trans-Pacific Partnership is in the interests of the small and medium-sized negotiating countries. | A number of countries are currently negotiating to establish the world's largest free trade area by comprehensively liberalising trade in the Asia-Pacific region. This proposed agreement, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), would include the following countries: United States, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Mexico, Chile, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zeland, Peru and Brunei. China is NOT included in these negotiations. |
| 6 | THW make the receipt of welfare payments to raise children conditional on the use of long-term, but reversible, contraception | |
| 7 | THBT government agencies that regulate drugs should only test whether a drug is safe, not whether it is effective, before approving it for public use. | Generally, government agencies, responsible for regulating drugs (for example the Food and Drug Administration, or the European Medicines Agency) rewuire that a new drug pass two different tests before being approved for public use. These seperate tests asses whether a drug is: First, "safe", does the drug pose an unacceptable health risk? Second, "effective", does the drug do what it claims to do? |
| 8 | THBT NATO should unconditionally offer membership to the states of the former Soviet Union, excluding Russia | |
| 9 | TH regrets the commodification of indigenous cultures | |
| EFL_Semis | THBT the gay rights movement should abandon the claim that sexuality is not a choice | |
| EFL_Final | THBT multinational companies should be liable for human rights abuses that occur anywhere in their supply chain | |
| ESL_Quarters | THW remove all copyright protection for material deemed to be morally objectionable | |
| ESL_Semis | THBT Pope Francis should publicly encourage Catholics to support radically redistributive government policies | |
| ESL_Final | THW allow countries to pay other countries to settle asylum-seekers who reach their borders | |
| Open_Partial_Double_Octos | THW abolish gated communities in the developing world | |
| Open_Octos | THBT Japan should shame its soldiers who participated in WWII, including those who did not commit war crimes themselves | |
| Open_Quarters | THW auction off the long-term right to govern bankrupt cities for profit | |
| Open_Semis | THBT women should reject practices that alter the appearance of their genitalia, such as waxing and labiaplasty | |
| Open_Final | THBT India should adopt aggressive free market policies. |
CA Team: Sharmila Parmanand, Douglas Cochran, Victor Finkel, Isabelle Fischer, James Kilcup, Jens Fischer
| Round | Motion | Infoslide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | THW create public housing for the poor in wealthy areas | |
| 2 | THBT Japan should acquire nuclear weapons | |
| 3 | THW only imprison individuals who pose a direct and continuing threat to society | |
| 4 | THBT International development institutions (such as the World Bank) should not finance natural resource extraction projects in corrupt states | |
| 5 | THBT self described progressive males of dominant ethnicities are morally obliged to refrain from taking positions of responsibility where there is a qualified alternative candidate from a historically disadvantaged group who would otherwise receive the post | |
| 6 | THW legally permit soldiers to refuse to participate in military actions or missions on the basis of conscience | |
| 7 | THBT European Union nations should forgive Greece’s sovereign debt | |
| 8 | THBT countries with booming populations should allocate every adult a single tradable permit to have a child | |
| 9 | THW ban political parties and require all candidates for national public office to seek election as independents | |
| EFL_Quarters | THBT publicly funded universities should be required to reduce enrolment in degree programs within their university that have statistically poor employment outcomes | |
| EFL_Semis | THBT policies that may have significant environmental consequences should be subject to a veto by a 'supreme court' of scientific experts | |
| EFL_Final | TH welcomes the decline of the USA as the sole global super power. | |
| ESL_Quarters | THBT publicly funded universities should be required to reduce enrolment in degree programs within their university that have statistically poor employment outcomes (same as EFL_Quarters) | |
| ESL_Semis | THBT the feminist movement should actively promote norms of stable monogamous relationships | |
| ESL_Final | THBT representative democracies with large numbers of foreigners living in their territory (on a temporary or permanent basis) should create specific seats to represent them in parliament. | |
| Open_Partial_Double_Octos | THBT universities should never prohibit research or teaching on the grounds of sexist, racist or otherwise discriminatory implications | |
| Open_Octos | THBT the US should cut off military aid to Egypt | |
| Open_Quarters | THW ban all advertising of consumer goods and services | |
| Open_Semis | TBHT the WTO should never allow nations to place export restrictions on food, rare-earth metals, and other non-oil commodities | |
| Open_Final | THW not allow religious communities to expel members on the basis of views or actions that contradict doctrinal teachings |
CA Team: Sam Block, Lucinda David, Joe Roussos, Tim Mooney, Cormac Early, Masako Suzuki, Art Ward
| Round | Motion | Infoslide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | THW make fathers take paternity leave. | |
| 2 | THW prevent politicians from making fact claims that, while not technically lies, are substantially misleading to voters. | |
| 3 | THW force large companies who leave an area to pay the costs of any resulting structural unemployment. | |
| 4 | THW require individuals to use all their wealth beyond USD 5 million for philanthropic projects. | |
| 5 | THW require deaf parents to send their children (whether deaf or hearing) to mainstream schools for their primary and secondary education. | |
| 6 | TH supports politicians who pass progressive legislation, even where this is contrary to the wishes of the democratic electorate. | |
| 7 | TH supports the free movement of labour worldwide. | |
| 8 | THW exempt academic disputes from defamation law. | |
| 9 | THW ban all private healthcare in favour of a comprehensive public healthcare system. | |
| EFL_Semis | THBT when doctors discover a patient has STDs, they should reveal that info to the patient’s partner. | |
| EFL_Final | THBT public education systems should raise the aspirations of children from disadvantaged backgrounds beyond that which is realistic to expect them to achieve. | |
| ESL_Quarters | THW limit government ministers’ standard of living to that of someone on the current median wage. | |
| ESL_Semis | In countries with few female politicians, THB it is good to have a politically active ‘first lady’. | |
| ESL_Final | TH supports scientists who fabricate evidence exaggerating the certainty of man-made climate change, where there is a low likelihood to be caught. | |
| Open_Octos | THW not allow a single media company to own multiple TV channels or newspapers (whether in print or online). | |
| Open_Quarters | THBT “Western” consultants advising dictatorships have a moral duty to sabotage them. | |
| Open_Semis | THBT images designed to even slightly sexually attract/aroused viewer should be restricted to specialist adult shot/xxx domain. | |
| Open_Final | TH supports nationalism. |
CA Team: Logandran Balavijendran, Pearl Mathumo, James Dray, Anat Gelber, Richard Lizius, Tim Jeffrie
| Round | Motion | Infoslide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | This house believes that national sporting teams should reflect the diversity of the national population | |
| 2 | This house believes that all states have a right to nuclear weapons | |
| 3 | This house believes that governments should not provide benefits on the basis of marital status | |
| 4 | This house believes that central banks should set limits on government spending | |
| 5 | This wouse would prioritise asylum Seekers who have engaged in armed struggle against oppressive regimes | |
| 6 | This wouse would allow teachers unions the right to strike | |
| 7 | This wouse would require individuals to reveal their actual identity when communicating on the internet | |
| 8 | This house believes that the southern african development community (SADC) should pursue political union | |
| 9 | This house believes that social movements should use the courts rather than the legislature to advance social change | |
| EFL_Semis | This house supports a one state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict | |
| EFL_Final | This wouse would give more votes to the poor | |
| ESL_Quarters | This house believes that domestic courts should try foreign nationals who commit war crimes abroad | |
| ESL_Semis | This wouse would prefer that the children of racial minorities be adopted by parents of that race | |
| ESL_Final | This house believes that the courts should break up consistently dominant political parties | |
| Masters_1 | This wouse would buy local | |
| Masters_Final | This house prefers a philosopher King to a tyrannical democracy | |
| Open_Octos | This wouse would buy countries votes in international organizations | |
| Open_Quarters | This house believes that courts should not enforce wills that discriminate on the basis of race | |
| Open_Semis | This house opposes organised religion | |
| Open_Final | This wouse would invade Zimbabwe |
CA Team: Can Okar, Josh Bone, Julia Bowes, Suthen Tate Thomas, Will Jones, Handan Orel, Ozan Mert Ondes.
| Round | Motion | Infoslide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | This house would ban labour unions. | |
| 2 | This house believes that developing nations should pay for the full tuition of female university students. | |
| 3 | This house would financially incentivize both inter-faith and inter-ethnic marriages. | |
| 4 | THW prohibit high-ranking members of the Sri Lankan military and the Tamil Tigers from participation in the election. | |
| 5 | THW abolish taxes on alcohol and cigarettes that go beyond normal sales taxes. | |
| 6 | THW prosecute communities for complicity in honour killings. | |
| 7 | THW grant those diagnosed with terminal illnesses the right to access treatments that have not completed clinical testing. | |
| 8 | THW partition Sudan. | |
| 9 | THW ban all pornography. | |
| EFL_Semis | This House would use faith based rehabilitation in prison. | |
| EFL_Final | This House believes that democratic states should own their own broadcasting corporations. | |
| ESL_Quarters | This House would ban any scheme intended to cure homosexuality | |
| ESL_Semis | This house would allow prisoners to raise their babies behind bars. | |
| ESL_Final | This house would prohibit expression that portrays convicted war criminals in a positive light. | |
| Open_Octos | This house believes the West should recognise the Dalai Lama | |
| Open_Quarters | This house would ban all procedures to alter one's racial appearance. | |
| Open_Semis | THB that the United States government should subsidize Twitter to liberalize oppressed societies | |
| Open_Final | THB that the media should show the full horror of war |
CA Team: Derek Lande, Erin O'Brien, Ivan Ah Sam, Rory Gillis, Daniel Patrick McCarthy
| Round | Motion | Infoslide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | This house would ban all forms of gambling. | |
| 2 | This house would fire the senior managements of all corporations which receive government bailouts. | |
| 3 | This house would allow soldiers to sue their government for negligence. | |
| 4 | This house would force the religious desegregation of Northern Irish schools. | |
| 5 | This house believes that China and India should bear the same obligations as the West in fighting climate change | |
| 6 | This house would criminalise adultery. | |
| 7 | This house believes that the west should recognise the independence of Abkhazia. | |
| 8 | This house would apply a lower rate of income tax to women. | |
| 9 | This house would ban the publication of political opinion polls. | |
| EFL_Final | This house would prohibit all private health care. | |
| ESL_Final | This house would implement quotas for domestic players in national football leagues. | |
| Open_Octos | This house would arm local militia to fight the taliban in Afghanistan. | |
| Open_Quarters | This house believes that the international criminal court should prosecute crimes against the democratic process. | |
| Open_Semis | This house believes governments should subsidise private home ownership. | |
| Open_Final | This house would ban abortion at all stages of pregnancy. |
CA Team: Rajesh Krishnan, Ciaran Lawlor, Beth O’Connor, Joanna Nairn
| Round | Motion | Infoslide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | This House would allow the use of torture. | |
| 2 | This House believes that Taiwan should declare independence now | |
| 3 | THW not allow local government to pay for the relocation of homeless people. | |
| 4 | This House believes that the European Union should only direct aid to nations that pursue environmentally sustainable development. | |
| 5 | This House believes that every criminal defendant should be required to use a government provided defense lawyer. | |
| 6 | THW subject foreign political contributions to greater restrictions than domestic contributions. | |
| 7 | This House would assassinate Vladimir Putin. | |
| 8 | THB that governments should never rescue failing private industry. | |
| 9 | This House would deny scarce medical resources to terminally ill patients. | |
| EFL_Final | This house would eliminate all non state-run schools | |
| ESL_Octos | This House would support the use of mercenaries by the United Nations. | |
| ESL_Quarters | This House would force religious adoption agencies to place children with homosexual couples. | |
| ESL_Semis | This House would require doctors to report all cases of suspected domestic violence. | |
| ESL_Final | This house believes that the Turkish military should stop enforcing the separation of church (mosque) and state | |
| Masters_1 | This house regrets the passing of Bhutto | |
| Masters_2 | This house would stop the search for the gay gene | |
| Masters_3 | This house would let them eat whale | |
| Masters_Final | This house would put an age limit on debating | |
| Open_Octos | THB that governments in the developing world should invest in sex tourism. | |
| Open_Quarters | This House would force religious adoption agencies to place children with homosexual couples. | |
| Open_Semis | THB that extreme economic need should be grounds for asylum. | |
| Open_Final | THB that people who give HIV to others must pay drug support. |
CA Team: Kevin Massie, Derek Lande, Tim Sonnreich, Alex Deane
| Round | Motion | Infoslide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | This house would ban government funding of religious schools | |
| 2 | This house believes that the UK should abolish it’s nuclear arsenal | |
| 3 | This House supports accelerated land redistribution in South Africa | |
| 4 | This house would criminalize the payment of ransom | |
| 5 | This house supports independence for Quebec | |
| 6 | This house would abolish all taxes on inherited wealth | |
| 7 | This house would support regime change in Myanmar/Burma | |
| 8 | This house would ban Cosmetic Surgery | |
| 9 | This house would grant citizenship in exchange for military service | |
| EFL_Final | This house would lift sanctions on Iran | |
| ESL_Semis | This house believes all serious crimes should be trialed by Jury | |
| ESL_Final | This house believes that politicians have a right to a private life | |
| Masters_1 | This house would designate one city to permanently host the Olympics | |
| Masters_2 | This house believes that governments should provide heroin addicts with safe injection facilities | |
| Masters_Final | This house supports a 35 hour working week | |
| Open_Octos | This house believes that developing nation should nationalize their energy resources | |
| Open_Quarters | This house believes that people sentenced to life imprisonment should be allowed to choose the death penalty instead | |
| Open_Semis | This house would ban websites that glorify eating disorders | |
| Open_Final | This house believes that economic growth is the solution to climate change |