Motions

Round 1

  • 1
    That Australian universities should use the Captain's Pick system rather than the Selector Discretion system to select their Australs teams
  • 2
    That we support Australia increasing GST to 15% of all goods and services as part of a revenue neutral tax reform package
  • 3
    That we regret the public preference towards voting for 'everyman' style candidates instead of elites

    • Round 2

  • 1
    That we should ban AT1s.
  • 2
    That we should ban internalisation.
  • 3
    That we oppose the growing trend of major US companies incorporating in states like Texas and Nevada (e.g. Tesla, DropBox and TripAdvisor).

    • Round 3

  • 1
    That, as Paul, Weiss, we regret our capitulation to the Trump Administration
  • 2
    That we prefer a world where US political parties had much higher levels of discipline and organisation
  • 3
    That, as the Democrats, we would make the PRO Act the central policy platform of our mid-term strategy in 2026

    • Round 4

  • 1
    That we believe the legal standard for consent should be based on affirmative consent rather than sexual harm
  • 2
    That the use of the term genocide in public discourse has done more harm than good
  • 3
    That we regret abortion advocates' emphasis on justifying abortion through disproving foetal personhood

    • Round 5

  • 1
    That we prefer a world where all criminal organisations adopted a franchise model instead of a hierarchical model
  • 2
    That AEMO should allow cash to be taken as collateral
  • 3
    That civil law jurisdictions should introduce a lay judge system

    • Semi-Finals

  • 1
    That we support public policy being made with the belief that the average person has a high level of agency
  • 2
    That we support the death of ambition in academia
  • 3
    That courts should have the power to determine people to be outlaws as a criminal punishment

    • Grand Final

  • 1
    That, as the ALP, we prefer the Prime Minister's Pick system to the Caucus Discretion system
  • 2
    That the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities are in the interest of the United States
  • 3
    That the Mariel boatlift was in the interest of the Castro Government