Motions

Grand Final

  • 1
    That the UN should militarily liberate West Papua unless Indonesia agrees to a UN overseen independance referendum
  • 2
    That we support governments creating publicly run gig economy platforms
  • 3
    That the Australian Government should bail out failing residential construction companies

    • Semifinals

  • 1
    That ECOWAS should offer to end sanctions against Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger in exchange for withdrawal of their notices to leave ECOWAS
  • 2
    That Lebanon should conduct a new census
  • 3
    That the Nippon Steel purchase of US Steel is in the interests of the United States

    • Quarterfinals

  • 1
    That we prefer a public option healthcare system to a single payer healthcare system
  • 2
    That we should use directly observed treatment for anti-psychotic medication prescribed for schizophrenia
  • 3
    That SSRIs should be available over the counter

    • Octofinals

  • 1
    That, as the US, we would ban proprietary military designs or technologies and financially compensate firms to make their research available to competitors.
  • 2
    That, in Western liberal democracies, we should nationalise the funeral industry
  • 3
    That we support the 1998 waterfront reforms

    • Round 6

  • 1
    That we prefer unicameral legislatures to bicameral legislatures
  • 2
    That we should establish a technocratic independent board to decide which taxes to implement, from a target tax rate set by the government
  • 3
    That we support the ‘parachuting in’ of candidates

    • Round 5

  • 1
    That the ACCU Scheme should not give carbon credits to vegetation management projects
  • 2
    That, as China, we would encourage the consolidation of electric vehicle makers
  • 3
    That, as Australia, we would prioritise energy infrastructure investments for the domestic market over export opportunities (e.g. LNG terminals, undersea power cables)

    • Round 4

  • 1
    That successful black filmmakers should opt out of the Academy
  • 2
    That, as the CCP, we would limit the import quota to six foreign films a year
  • 3
    That we support synthetic performers

    • Round 3

  • 1
    That we regret the criminal investigations and indictments of Donald Trump.
  • 2
    That we should require all US presidential primaries to occur on the same day.
  • 3
    That, as the Republican party, we regret blocking the bipartisan border deal.

    • Round 2

  • 1
    That, as the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches, would leave the Anglican Communion
  • 2
    That we prefer a world in which Veritaserum was in the global water supply
  • 3
    That, as Marvel, we would bring back Tony Stark/Iron Man from the dead, assuming Robert Downey Jr would agree to return.

    • Round 1

  • 1
    That we oppose the open access business model in the publishing of scientific journals
  • 2
    That, where academics voluntarily reveal academic misconduct in their research, we should grant both those academics and their research groups amnesty
  • 3
    That we should allocate 50% of research funding by random lottery to scientific grant proposals which pass minimum requirements