Motions

High School Finals

  • 1
    (A) This House would frame the murderer over the well-meaning man
  • 2
    (B) This House, as Bethany, would choose to live out her remaining life in the painting
  • 3
    (C) This House would choose not to vote for a progressive candidate who is part of a political dynasty
  • High School Semifinals

  • 1
    (A) This House believes that accelerating the crash of specific markets/industries is a legitimate tactic of global trade warfare
  • 2
    (B) This House believes that governments should demand a controlling stake in companies seeking bailouts as a prerequisite for the bailout
  • 3
    (C) This House supports regional monopolies in the electric vehicle industry (e.g. BYD in China, Tesla in the U.S.) as opposed to more competitive markets (e.g. more market share distributed to Volkswagen, GEELY, General Motors, etc.)
  • Grand Final

  • 1
    (A) This House would frame the murderer over the well-meaning man
  • 2
    (B) This House, as Bethany, would choose to live out her remaining life in the painting
  • 3
    (C) This House would choose not to vote for a progressive candidate who is part of a political dynasty
  • Semifinals

  • 1
    (A) This House believes that accelerating the crash of specific markets/industries is a legitimate tactic of global trade warfare
  • 2
    (B) This House believes that governments should demand a controlling stake in companies seeking bailouts as a prerequisite for the bailout
  • 3
    (C) This House supports regional monopolies in the electric vehicle industry (e.g. BYD in China, Tesla in the U.S.) as opposed to more competitive markets (e.g. more market share distributed to Volkswagen, GEELY, General Motors, etc.)
  • Quarterfinals

  • 1
    (A) This House, as China, would significantly pivot to a USAID style approach as their expansion strategy and transition away from the OBOR based expansion
  • 2
    (B) This House Opposes the attempts of civil organisations in South Korea to inform North Korean citizens about their regime's wrongdoings (e.g. disseminating leaflets and ad balloons, smuggling USBs, transmitting cross-border radio waves).
  • 3
    (C) This house regrets the decline of lifetime employment
  • Round 5

  • 1
    (A) This House supports jury nullification in the trial of Luigi Mangione
  • 2
    (B) This House would introduce significant mandatory minimum prison sentences for white collar crimes
  • 3
    (C) This House would prohibit entertainment companies from including exclusivity clauses in employment contracts that place restrictions on the personal lives of their employees (e.g., restrictions on dating, dietary restrictions etc.)
  • Round 4

  • 1
    (a) This House believes that it is in the interest of India to reinstate Article 370
  • 2
    (b) This House prefers a world with Iranian nuclear weapons
  • 3
    (c) This House believes that ASEAN should abondon its consensus policy
  • Round 3

  • 1
    (a) This House Would allow authors to make legally binding declarations prohibiting some or all of their unpublished works from being published posthumously
  • 2
    (b) This House opposes the narrative that an artist's identity is defined by their works
  • 3
    (c) This House regrets the stigmatisation of parasocial relationships with artists
  • Round 2

  • 1
    (A) This House believes that news publications should be anonymised and signed as a collective editorial (e.g. the Economist)
  • 2
    (B) This House opposes the rise of citizen journalism
  • 3
    (C) This House would implement the L model for public broadcasting media in liberal democracie
  • Round 1

  • 1
    (a) This House believes that having one symbolic figure head in a social movement does more harm than good.
  • 2
    (b) This House regrets social movements' emphasis on individuals' lived experiences as a prerequisite to participate in the movement's discourse.
  • 3
    (c) This House opposes the feminist cult of personality surrounding female leaders from prominent political families in developing countries (e.g. Benazir Bhutto, Aung San Suu Kyi).