That where private prisons exist, they should be allowed to train/educate inmates in return for a percentage of that prisoner’s income that they earn after they leave prison. (Private prisons)
22%
19%
8 Aff wins
7 Neg wins
probably balanced
9%
19%
7 Aff vetoes
14 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 50% level
That we should ban litigation funding. (Litigation funding)
5%
8%
2 Aff wins
3 Neg wins
balance inconclusive
36%
9%
27 Aff vetoes
7 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 0.1% level
That the state should fully compensate the victims of crimes committed by recidivist criminals. (Compensating victims)
24%
22%
9 Aff wins
8 Neg wins
probably balanced
22%
2 Aff vetoes
16 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 0.1% level
Round 2
That we should allow people to sue media companies over harms that are created due to factual misinformation that they published. (Media companies)
19%
8%
7 Aff wins
3 Neg wins
imbalanced at 50% level
15%
20%
11 Aff vetoes
15 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 50% level
That we should regret dating/hookup websites allowing their users filtering results on the basis of demographic characteristics (race, gender, age etc.) (Dating websites)
22%
8%
8 Aff wins
3 Neg wins
imbalanced at 50% level
24%
14%
18 Aff vetoes
10 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 50% level
That Facebook should proactively suppress extremist content (Facebook)
16%
27%
6 Aff wins
10 Neg wins
imbalanced at 50% level
9%
15%
7 Aff vetoes
11 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 50% level
Round 3
That we should reject the culture of fearing death. (Death)
24%
41%
9 Aff wins
15 Neg wins
imbalanced at 50% level
8%
6 Aff vetoes
3 Neg vetoes
balance inconclusive
That we would prefer a world with only one language. (Language)
16%
11%
6 Aff wins
4 Neg wins
probably balanced
8%
18%
6 Aff vetoes
13 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 50% level
That humans should attempt to suppress their sense of beauty. (Beauty)
5%
1 Aff win
2 Neg wins
balance inconclusive
22%
16%
16 Aff vetoes
12 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 50% level
Round 4
That public universities should not implement speech codes or codes of conduct that limit expression beyond the laws of that country. (Uni Speech)
16%
14%
6 Aff wins
5 Neg wins
probably balanced
18%
12%
13 Aff vetoes
9 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 50% level
That we should regret the increasing dominance of academic discourse in civil rights movements (eg gender studies to feminism and queer studies to that queer rights movement) (Academic Dominance)
19%
14%
7 Aff wins
5 Neg wins
probably balanced
19%
19%
14 Aff vetoes
14 Neg vetoes
probably balanced
That universities and companies should only be allowed to recruit students and employees via a blind application process. (Blind Applications)
14%
24%
5 Aff wins
9 Neg wins
imbalanced at 50% level
14%
19%
10 Aff vetoes
14 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 50% level
Round 5
That we should ban animal eugenics programmes (eg: selective breeding and pure breeding) (Animal eugenics)
24%
22%
9 Aff wins
8 Neg wins
probably balanced
8%
22%
6 Aff vetoes
16 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 5% level
That we should cease all state initiated conservation projects (Conservation)
8%
19%
3 Aff wins
7 Neg wins
imbalanced at 50% level
32%
24 Aff vetoes
2 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 0.1% level
That we should oppose giving human rights to individual animals who pass self-recognition tests unless the whole species are granted those rights (Animal rights)
5%
22%
2 Aff wins
8 Neg wins
imbalanced at 10% level
9%
26%
7 Aff vetoes
19 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 2% level
Round 6
That citizenships should be placed on an international market for sale and purchase. (International market)
11%
19%
4 Aff wins
7 Neg wins
imbalanced at 50% level
35%
8%
26 Aff vetoes
6 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 0.1% level
That the European Union should opt for less integration among its current member states. (EU integration)
14%
16%
5 Aff wins
6 Neg wins
probably balanced
11%
19%
8 Aff vetoes
14 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 50% level
That refugees should be able to bypass standard refugee quotas and procedures if they have an individual citizen take responsibility for them. (Refugees)
22%
19%
8 Aff wins
7 Neg wins
probably balanced
23%
3 Aff vetoes
17 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 1% level
Round 7
That we should legalise secondary strikes/solidarity action. (industrial action taken by a workforce in support of another, separate workforce) (Secondary strikes)
24%
5%
9 Aff wins
2 Neg wins
imbalanced at 5% level
7%
32%
5 Aff vetoes
24 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 0.1% level
That we should allow employees to give up workplace rights in exchange for higher wages. (Workplace)
11%
19%
4 Aff wins
7 Neg wins
imbalanced at 50% level
27%
20 Aff vetoes
2 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 0.1% level
That we would prefer a world where the norm is that people hold multiple part time jobs instead of the current norm of one full time job. (Part time jobs)
16%
24%
6 Aff wins
9 Neg wins
imbalanced at 50% level
12%
9%
9 Aff vetoes
7 Neg vetoes
probably balanced
Round 8
That where the state has negotiated a sale of public land they must first offer indigenous groups the chance to purchase the land on the same terms. (Indigenous sales)
11%
5%
4 Aff wins
2 Neg wins
balance inconclusive
22%
34%
16 Aff vetoes
25 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 50% level
That the state should exclusively focus on recifying current inequalities to the exclusion of compensating for historical injustices (Historic inustice)
22%
19%
8 Aff wins
7 Neg wins
probably balanced
19%
14 Aff vetoes
2 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 1% level
That local communities should be able to cap the number of tourists that enter their region over a specific period of time (Tourist caps)
19%
24%
7 Aff wins
9 Neg wins
probably balanced
9%
14%
7 Aff vetoes
10 Neg vetoes
imbalanced at 50% level
Open Octofinals
That, where home schooling exists, we should ban religious individuals from homeschooling their children. (Homeschooling)
25%
0 Aff wins
2 Neg wins
balance inconclusive
25%
4 Aff vetoes
0 Neg vetoes
balance inconclusive
That we, as the Catholic Church, would abolish sainthoods and canonisation. (Canonisation)
38%
0 Aff wins
3 Neg wins
balance inconclusive
19%
13%
3 Aff vetoes
2 Neg vetoes
balance inconclusive
That individuals should always have the right to temporarily enter a state for the purposes of pilgrimage. (Pilgrimage)
13%
25%
1 Aff win
2 Neg wins
balance inconclusive
19%
0 Aff vetoes
3 Neg vetoes
balance inconclusive
ESL Semifinals
That the narrative that charitable initiatives can be profitable (eg microfinancing, impact investment) has done more harm than good. (Charitable initiatives)
50%
0 Aff wins
1 Neg win
balance inconclusive
No teams vetoed this motion
That the state should not provide legal recognition and support to charities whose main goal is to raise awareness. (Awareness charities)
50%
0 Aff wins
1 Neg win
balance inconclusive
25%
1 Aff veto
0 Neg vetoes
balance inconclusive
Open Quarterfinals
That we regret the efforts of the United States to make housing more affordable. (US housing)
25%
25%
1 Aff win
1 Neg win
balance inconclusive
13%
1 Aff veto
0 Neg vetoes
balance inconclusive
That the pro-Palestine movement should not liken Israel to apartheid. (Israel)
25%
25%
1 Aff win
1 Neg win
balance inconclusive
No teams vetoed this motion
Open Semifinals
That we should abolish corporate/company tax. (Company tax)
50%
0 Aff wins
1 Neg win
balance inconclusive
25%
1 Aff veto
0 Neg vetoes
balance inconclusive
That we should allow income splitting. (Income splitting allows a person to allocate part of their income to their partner for tax purposes. Eg Kirkby earns $0, Nick earns $100,000. Each is taxed at $50,000 each. It is not taxing them at $100,000 as if they are one person.) (Income splitting)