Motions

Grand Final

  • 1
    TH opposes the narrative of sacrifice as a description of the work performed by essential workers during a pandemic
  • 2
    This house regrets the glorification of soldiers as heroes
  • 3
    This House Believes That all nations should take active steps to eliminate all borders
  • Semifinals

  • 1
    This House would designate specific non-residential areas in which drug users and dealers are legally allowed to buy, use, and sell drugs
  • 2
    This House would replace human judgment with computer algorithms in criminal sentencing decisions
  • 3
    THW impose criminal liability on individuals who fail to assist a person in danger, when doing so would not place them at serious risk
  • Round 4

  • 1
    THBT major environmental resources (ie. Amazon Forest, Major Rivers, Arctic) should be under universal jurisdiction as opposed to national/sovereign jurisdiction
  • 2
    TH supports climate change activists engaging in acts, regardless of legality, which cause mass disruption to carbon-intensive infrastructure networks
  • 3
    THBT sanctions should be imposed on countries that are the main contributors towards global pollution
  • Round 3

  • 1
    This House believes that cities with significant immigrant populations should actively break up ethnic enclaves(ie Chinatown)
  • 2
    This House Would prohibit all research that tries to establish a relationship between race/ethnicity and intelligence
  • 3
    This House Believes That governments in the developing world should limit migration to megacities
  • Round 2

  • 1
    This House Believes That democratic states should not own or run media organisations
  • 2
    This House Would limit media coverage of mass shootings
  • 3
    This House Regrets the media focus on the personal lives of politicians
  • Round 1

  • 1
    THBT opposition political parties should boycott elections, rather than contest them, when the electoral process is believed not to be free and fair
  • 2
    THW ban political parties and require all candidates for national public office to seek election as independents
  • 3
    THW make voting compulsory