I will try and have all the motions from the different national and international tournaments posted in this section for easy reference. Most of these motions are posted on blogs around the web or posted by debaters on twitter. I thank Colm Flynn and Saad bin Amjad as a lot of the information will be from their websites.
Tournaments:
WUDC 2012
Motions so far:
Prelim Rounds:
Round 1: THW make fathers take paternity leave.
Round 2: THW prevent politicians from making fact claims,that, while not technically lies, are substantially misleading voters.
Round 3: THW force large companies who leave an area to pay the costs of any resulting structural unemployment.
Round 4: THW require individuals to use all their wealth beyond USD 5 millions for philanthropic projects.
Round 5: THW require deaf parents to send their kids (whether deaf or hearing) to mainstream schools for their primary and secondary education.
Round 6: TH supports politicians who pass progressive legislation even when it is contrary to the wishes of the democratic electorate.
Round 7: TH supports the free movement of labour worldwide.
Round 8: THW exempt academic disputes from defamation law.
Round 9: THW ban all private healthcare in favour of a comprehensive public healthcare system.
Break Rounds:
Main Break:
Octo Finals: THW not allow a single media company to own multiple TV channels or newspapers (whether in print or online)
Quarter Final: THBT "Western" consultants advising dictatorships have a moral duty to sabotage them.
Semi Final: THBT images designed to even slightly sexually attract/aroused viewer should be restricted to specialist adult shot/xxx domain.
Grand Final: TH supports nationalism.
ESL:
Quarter Final: THW limit Government ministers' standard of living to that of someone on the current median wage.
Semi Final: In countries with few female politicians, this house believes it is good to have a politically active 'first lady'
Grand Final: THS scientist who fabricate evidence exaggerating certainty of man-made climate change where theres low likelihood of being caught.
EFL:
Semi Final: THBT when doctors discover a patient has a STD, they should reveal that information to the patients partner.
Grand Final: THBT public education systems should raise the aspirations of children from disadvantaged backgrounds beyond that which is realistic to expect them to achieve.
Other Motions:
Master R1: THW stop public funding for the post secondary education and use the money to give everyone an equal loathsome payment on their 18th Birthday to use how they see fit.
Master R2: ?
Adj Test: THW ban all reporting of individual hostage taking.
Public Speaking: Why I debate?
Women's Night Motion: THW only sell porn for women made by women.
WUPID 2011
R1. TH would abolish permanent membership of the UN Security Council.
R2. With the benefit of hindsight, TH regrets awarding President Barrack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.
R3. THBT Asia should welcome Chinese Military Expansion.
R4. THBT Malaysia should embrace the right to peaceful assembly.
R5. THBT The peaceful resolution of conflicts in South America must include the international legalization of cocaine.
QF. THBT the UN should insist on focused assassination attempts prior to approving wider military action for regime change.
SF. THBT all whistle blowers from the military should be given amnesty.
GF: THBT unfettered capitalism is the greatest obstacle to world peace.
Singapore Debate Open 2011
R1. THW cane children in schools.
R2. THW protect uncontacted tribes from the outside world.
R3. THW compel religiously affiliated organizations to provide birth control coverage under the new US health care laws.
R4. TH Regrets Palestine's full membership in UNESCO
R5. THW completely privatize the public transport system in developing countries
R6. THBT states should provide military assistance to environmental militants
QF. THW actively discredit Orientalism, specifically the western conception of an Asian Identity.
SF. TH should only appoint female generals
GF. THW allow citizens to sue their government for mismanagement of natural disasters.
NSU Asian BP 2011
R1: THW ban violent sports.
R2: TH regrets Myanmar's appointment as future ASEAN chair.
R3: THW abolish gated communities with extensive private security.
R4: THW require all media outlets to be organized as cooperatives, owned
and run by journalists only.
R5: THW not allow countries undertaking military intervention abroad to
harvest natural resources while they are there.
R6: THBT feminists should campaign for fathers' right!
Pre Quarter: THW criminalize the refusal to render reasonable assistance to
people in distress.
Quarters: THBT states should punish more harshly acts of terrorism
committed by own citizens than those committed by citizens of their
countries.
Semi Finals: THW use state education system to actively promote atheism.
Final Motion: THBT micro-credit program should stop exclusively targeting
women.
Melbourne Mini 2011
R1: THW sell uranium to India.
R2. THBT Facebook should remove pages that joke about rape.
R3. THW take drastic action against Syria.
R4: THW break up companies deemed too big to fail.
R5: THBT marriage licenses should have to be renewed periodically.
Rd 6: THW ban all blood sports involving animals.
SF: THW allow health care professionals to opt out of any stage of abortion, including before & after care.
Final: THBT the US should support Palestinian statehood.
NEAO 2011
R1: The Middle East
THBT Israel should preemptively strike against Iranian Nuclear facilities.
R2: Politics
THW allow individuals to sell their votes for financial compensation.
R3: Economics
THW end all fiscal austerity measures and increase government spending.
R4: Taiwan
THBT Taiwanese government should abandon all efforts towards formal independence.
R5: Ethics
THW legalize polygamy.
Pre QF: Religion
THBT equal opportunity legislation should extend to religious institutions.
QF: Justice
THW try the Syrian dictator, Al-Assad.
SF: International Obligations
THBT all countries must ratify binding targets in any international agreement on climate change.
GF: International Law
THBT international law should recognize the right of each state to unilaterally undertake humanitarian intervention.
EFL SF: Development
THBT all government contracts should buy locally manufactured goods and services.
EFL GF: Environment
THW impose a maximum cap on the usage of water.
New Zealand IV (Victoria IV) 2011
R1: This House would ban child beauty pageants
R2: This House believes Israel should unilaterally preemptively strike Iran.
R3: This House believes that individuals should be required by governments to invest a defined portion of their salary for their retirement
R4: This House would forcibly remove the homeless from the streets and place them in mental institutions or rehabilitation
R5: This House would consign the European Union to the dustbin of history
R6: This house supports comprehensive parental leave paid for by employers
Semi: This House would camp out in solidarity with the "Occupy" protestors
Final: This House believes newly democratised Arab nations should not allow religious parties to run for office.
Cambridge IV 2011
R1: THW allow family members to forcibly commit proven alcoholics and drug addicts to rehabilitation clinics.
R2: THBT all research organizations should institute codes of conduct that forbid the creation of Strong AI.
R3: THW provide financial assistance to inner city neighborhoods to prevent gentrification
R4: THBT China should make extracting a full apology for Japan's War Crimes a top strategic priority
R5: THBT feminists should not campaign against polygamy in poor countries.
ESL SF: THW take the children of the Amish into care
ESL Final: THB that it is morally legitimate for Occupy Movement to use violence to undermine capitalist institutions.
Open QF: THBT the use of conscripted soldiers should be a war crime.
Open SF: TH regrets the rise of a distinct African American Culture
Open Final: THW break up Google's Search monopoly.
Oxford IV 2011
R1: This House Believes That Sex Education Classes in Schools Should Teach Techniques For Pure Sexual Gratification (including, but not limited to, anal sex, oral sex, mutual gratification and masturbation)
R2: This House Believes That in developing countries aid organizations should be banned from religious proselytizing.
R3: This House Believes That Trade unions and labour protection laws should be suspended during times of economic crisis.
R4: This House Believes That Israel Should Materially Support Arab Pro-Democratic Movements.
R5: This House Believes That a tax should be placed on successful artists in order to fund new and developing artists(Note: Artists defined by the CA team to be the arts and the entertainment industry).
Open Quarter Final: This House Believes That International Law should allow states which accept refugees to sue the states they come from for compensation.
ESL Semi Final: This House Believes That the LGBT Movement Should Not Support Pride Marches.
Open Semi: This House would Establish Brothels on Military Bases.
ESL Final: This House believes That the CEOs of the largest corporations should be chosen by the national democratic elections
Open Final: This House Would establish geographical zones where the selling and consuming of any and all drugs are legal.
RVDT 2011
TEST: This house believes that belief in the existence of God is antithetical to the greater good of society
Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll:
THBT universities should encourage and promote sexual activity.
THW hold criminal only the possession to peddle and not possession to consumer marijuana in India.
THW disallow mosh pits.
Education:
THBT competitive examination coaching classes are antithetical to the greater cause of education.
THBT all primary and secondary schools should not make any subject mandatory.
THW allow corporal punishment in schools.
The Little People:
THBT FIFA must use female officials in the World Cup
THW always prefer heterosexual couples to homosexual couples for adoption.
THBT Zoos are immoral.
Game Theory:
THBT cricketers shouldn't walk.
THBT the highest governing body for a sporting club should be constituted by its fans.
THW lift the ban on team orders instructing drivers to deliberately lose a race in motorsport racing.
Tech:
THBT all patents must be made accessible for a reasonable remuneration to the patent owner.
THW peg the price of fuel to the fuel efficiency of the vehicle.
This house regrets the Tata Nano.
Medical Ethics:
THW conduct pharmaceutical trials on death row convicts.
THW forcefully abort foetuses that have contracted HIV AIDS from their mothers.
THW make blood donation compulsory for all.
Break Rounds:
Octo Finals - Politics:
THBT Political parties should not be allowed to issue whips requiring their legislators to vote in a certain way.
TH does not believe in coalition governments.
THBT there is no place for political parties in the democratic process.
Quarter Finals - Write The Future:
The date is February 5, 1922. The Non-Cooperation movement has seen the whole of India come together in one consolidated movement to overthrow the British Raj through peaceful Civil Disobedience, with Gandhi as its focal point. The success of the revolt is a total shock to British authorities and a massive encouragement to millions of Indians. The movement had reached its critical mass. At this point, in Chauri Chaura, after clashes between the local police and the protesters in which three protesters were killed by police firing, the police station along with 22 policemen was set on fire by the mob. You are Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Motion :- That you will persist with the Non-Cooperation Movement.
Bolu dislikes Palli. Bolu is also quite eccentric, he was raised on a small Caribbean Island and, as a young boy, was initiated into the black-magic cults of the native people. Bolu still believes, very strongly, in the power of voodoo. One day, Bolu decides that he can no longer tolerate Palli, goes to his basement and meticulously prepares a voodoo doll, takes a deep breath and stabs the doll with ‘magical’ needles. He then finds Palli lying spread-eagled on the floor and is convinced he has killed him. Overcome by guilt he surrenders himself to the police and confesses that he killed Palli by the use of Voodoo dolls. As it turns out, Palli had merely passed out on the floor and wasn’t by any means dead. Motion :- THW find Bolu guilty of attempt to murder.
"Anders Behring Breivik, the rightwing extremist, who has admitted killing 77 people during bomb and gun attacks in July, has been pictured extensively wearing Lacoste items since he was arrested. He also referred to Lacoste on a number of occasions in a rambling ""manifesto"" that emerged after the attacks. In one section, he advised would-be followers to wear ""Lacoste etc, conservative colours"" in order not to arouse suspicion. Lacoste has asked the authorities in Norway to prevent Anders Behring Breivik from wearing the brand.
THW grant Lacoste’s request."
Semi Finals - Elections:
THW ban exit polls.
THBT it is legitimate for political parties to use sops as election promises. Semis
THW allow voters to select a least preferred candidate (negative vote) along with a most preferred candidate.
Grand Finals - Social Contract & Organic Change:
THB in the absolute right of individual over one's own body.
THBT anti sedition laws have no place in democracies.
THBT WLDs needn't be accommodative of the cultural notions of immigrants at the cost of ideals it believes in.
Tournaments:
- WUDC 2012
- ABP 2011
- WUPID 2011
- SDO 2011
- 2011
- Melbourne Mini 2011
- Victoria IV
- Cambridge IV
- Oxford IV
- RVDT 2011
Motions so far:
Prelim Rounds:
Round 1: THW make fathers take paternity leave.
Round 2: THW prevent politicians from making fact claims,that, while not technically lies, are substantially misleading voters.
Round 3: THW force large companies who leave an area to pay the costs of any resulting structural unemployment.
Round 4: THW require individuals to use all their wealth beyond USD 5 millions for philanthropic projects.
Round 5: THW require deaf parents to send their kids (whether deaf or hearing) to mainstream schools for their primary and secondary education.
Round 6: TH supports politicians who pass progressive legislation even when it is contrary to the wishes of the democratic electorate.
Round 7: TH supports the free movement of labour worldwide.
Round 8: THW exempt academic disputes from defamation law.
Round 9: THW ban all private healthcare in favour of a comprehensive public healthcare system.
Break Rounds:
Main Break:
Octo Finals: THW not allow a single media company to own multiple TV channels or newspapers (whether in print or online)
Quarter Final: THBT "Western" consultants advising dictatorships have a moral duty to sabotage them.
Semi Final: THBT images designed to even slightly sexually attract/aroused viewer should be restricted to specialist adult shot/xxx domain.
Grand Final: TH supports nationalism.
ESL:
Quarter Final: THW limit Government ministers' standard of living to that of someone on the current median wage.
Semi Final: In countries with few female politicians, this house believes it is good to have a politically active 'first lady'
Grand Final: THS scientist who fabricate evidence exaggerating certainty of man-made climate change where theres low likelihood of being caught.
EFL:
Semi Final: THBT when doctors discover a patient has a STD, they should reveal that information to the patients partner.
Grand Final: THBT public education systems should raise the aspirations of children from disadvantaged backgrounds beyond that which is realistic to expect them to achieve.
Other Motions:
Master R1: THW stop public funding for the post secondary education and use the money to give everyone an equal loathsome payment on their 18th Birthday to use how they see fit.
Master R2: ?
Adj Test: THW ban all reporting of individual hostage taking.
Public Speaking: Why I debate?
Women's Night Motion: THW only sell porn for women made by women.
WUPID 2011
R1. TH would abolish permanent membership of the UN Security Council.
R2. With the benefit of hindsight, TH regrets awarding President Barrack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.
R3. THBT Asia should welcome Chinese Military Expansion.
R4. THBT Malaysia should embrace the right to peaceful assembly.
R5. THBT The peaceful resolution of conflicts in South America must include the international legalization of cocaine.
QF. THBT the UN should insist on focused assassination attempts prior to approving wider military action for regime change.
SF. THBT all whistle blowers from the military should be given amnesty.
GF: THBT unfettered capitalism is the greatest obstacle to world peace.
Singapore Debate Open 2011
R1. THW cane children in schools.
R2. THW protect uncontacted tribes from the outside world.
R3. THW compel religiously affiliated organizations to provide birth control coverage under the new US health care laws.
R4. TH Regrets Palestine's full membership in UNESCO
R5. THW completely privatize the public transport system in developing countries
R6. THBT states should provide military assistance to environmental militants
QF. THW actively discredit Orientalism, specifically the western conception of an Asian Identity.
SF. TH should only appoint female generals
GF. THW allow citizens to sue their government for mismanagement of natural disasters.
NSU Asian BP 2011
R1: THW ban violent sports.
R2: TH regrets Myanmar's appointment as future ASEAN chair.
R3: THW abolish gated communities with extensive private security.
R4: THW require all media outlets to be organized as cooperatives, owned
and run by journalists only.
R5: THW not allow countries undertaking military intervention abroad to
harvest natural resources while they are there.
R6: THBT feminists should campaign for fathers' right!
Pre Quarter: THW criminalize the refusal to render reasonable assistance to
people in distress.
Quarters: THBT states should punish more harshly acts of terrorism
committed by own citizens than those committed by citizens of their
countries.
Semi Finals: THW use state education system to actively promote atheism.
Final Motion: THBT micro-credit program should stop exclusively targeting
women.
Melbourne Mini 2011
R1: THW sell uranium to India.
R2. THBT Facebook should remove pages that joke about rape.
R3. THW take drastic action against Syria.
R4: THW break up companies deemed too big to fail.
R5: THBT marriage licenses should have to be renewed periodically.
Rd 6: THW ban all blood sports involving animals.
SF: THW allow health care professionals to opt out of any stage of abortion, including before & after care.
Final: THBT the US should support Palestinian statehood.
NEAO 2011
R1: The Middle East
THBT Israel should preemptively strike against Iranian Nuclear facilities.
R2: Politics
THW allow individuals to sell their votes for financial compensation.
R3: Economics
THW end all fiscal austerity measures and increase government spending.
R4: Taiwan
THBT Taiwanese government should abandon all efforts towards formal independence.
R5: Ethics
THW legalize polygamy.
Pre QF: Religion
THBT equal opportunity legislation should extend to religious institutions.
QF: Justice
THW try the Syrian dictator, Al-Assad.
SF: International Obligations
THBT all countries must ratify binding targets in any international agreement on climate change.
GF: International Law
THBT international law should recognize the right of each state to unilaterally undertake humanitarian intervention.
EFL SF: Development
THBT all government contracts should buy locally manufactured goods and services.
EFL GF: Environment
THW impose a maximum cap on the usage of water.
New Zealand IV (Victoria IV) 2011
R1: This House would ban child beauty pageants
R2: This House believes Israel should unilaterally preemptively strike Iran.
R3: This House believes that individuals should be required by governments to invest a defined portion of their salary for their retirement
R4: This House would forcibly remove the homeless from the streets and place them in mental institutions or rehabilitation
R5: This House would consign the European Union to the dustbin of history
R6: This house supports comprehensive parental leave paid for by employers
Semi: This House would camp out in solidarity with the "Occupy" protestors
Final: This House believes newly democratised Arab nations should not allow religious parties to run for office.
Cambridge IV 2011
R1: THW allow family members to forcibly commit proven alcoholics and drug addicts to rehabilitation clinics.
R2: THBT all research organizations should institute codes of conduct that forbid the creation of Strong AI.
R3: THW provide financial assistance to inner city neighborhoods to prevent gentrification
R4: THBT China should make extracting a full apology for Japan's War Crimes a top strategic priority
R5: THBT feminists should not campaign against polygamy in poor countries.
ESL SF: THW take the children of the Amish into care
ESL Final: THB that it is morally legitimate for Occupy Movement to use violence to undermine capitalist institutions.
Open QF: THBT the use of conscripted soldiers should be a war crime.
Open SF: TH regrets the rise of a distinct African American Culture
Open Final: THW break up Google's Search monopoly.
Oxford IV 2011
R1: This House Believes That Sex Education Classes in Schools Should Teach Techniques For Pure Sexual Gratification (including, but not limited to, anal sex, oral sex, mutual gratification and masturbation)
R2: This House Believes That in developing countries aid organizations should be banned from religious proselytizing.
R3: This House Believes That Trade unions and labour protection laws should be suspended during times of economic crisis.
R4: This House Believes That Israel Should Materially Support Arab Pro-Democratic Movements.
R5: This House Believes That a tax should be placed on successful artists in order to fund new and developing artists(Note: Artists defined by the CA team to be the arts and the entertainment industry).
Open Quarter Final: This House Believes That International Law should allow states which accept refugees to sue the states they come from for compensation.
ESL Semi Final: This House Believes That the LGBT Movement Should Not Support Pride Marches.
Open Semi: This House would Establish Brothels on Military Bases.
ESL Final: This House believes That the CEOs of the largest corporations should be chosen by the national democratic elections
Open Final: This House Would establish geographical zones where the selling and consuming of any and all drugs are legal.
RVDT 2011
TEST: This house believes that belief in the existence of God is antithetical to the greater good of society
Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll:
THBT universities should encourage and promote sexual activity.
THW hold criminal only the possession to peddle and not possession to consumer marijuana in India.
THW disallow mosh pits.
Education:
THBT competitive examination coaching classes are antithetical to the greater cause of education.
THBT all primary and secondary schools should not make any subject mandatory.
THW allow corporal punishment in schools.
The Little People:
THBT FIFA must use female officials in the World Cup
THW always prefer heterosexual couples to homosexual couples for adoption.
THBT Zoos are immoral.
Game Theory:
THBT cricketers shouldn't walk.
THBT the highest governing body for a sporting club should be constituted by its fans.
THW lift the ban on team orders instructing drivers to deliberately lose a race in motorsport racing.
Tech:
THBT all patents must be made accessible for a reasonable remuneration to the patent owner.
THW peg the price of fuel to the fuel efficiency of the vehicle.
This house regrets the Tata Nano.
Medical Ethics:
THW conduct pharmaceutical trials on death row convicts.
THW forcefully abort foetuses that have contracted HIV AIDS from their mothers.
THW make blood donation compulsory for all.
Break Rounds:
Octo Finals - Politics:
THBT Political parties should not be allowed to issue whips requiring their legislators to vote in a certain way.
TH does not believe in coalition governments.
THBT there is no place for political parties in the democratic process.
Quarter Finals - Write The Future:
The date is February 5, 1922. The Non-Cooperation movement has seen the whole of India come together in one consolidated movement to overthrow the British Raj through peaceful Civil Disobedience, with Gandhi as its focal point. The success of the revolt is a total shock to British authorities and a massive encouragement to millions of Indians. The movement had reached its critical mass. At this point, in Chauri Chaura, after clashes between the local police and the protesters in which three protesters were killed by police firing, the police station along with 22 policemen was set on fire by the mob. You are Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Motion :- That you will persist with the Non-Cooperation Movement.
Bolu dislikes Palli. Bolu is also quite eccentric, he was raised on a small Caribbean Island and, as a young boy, was initiated into the black-magic cults of the native people. Bolu still believes, very strongly, in the power of voodoo. One day, Bolu decides that he can no longer tolerate Palli, goes to his basement and meticulously prepares a voodoo doll, takes a deep breath and stabs the doll with ‘magical’ needles. He then finds Palli lying spread-eagled on the floor and is convinced he has killed him. Overcome by guilt he surrenders himself to the police and confesses that he killed Palli by the use of Voodoo dolls. As it turns out, Palli had merely passed out on the floor and wasn’t by any means dead. Motion :- THW find Bolu guilty of attempt to murder.
"Anders Behring Breivik, the rightwing extremist, who has admitted killing 77 people during bomb and gun attacks in July, has been pictured extensively wearing Lacoste items since he was arrested. He also referred to Lacoste on a number of occasions in a rambling ""manifesto"" that emerged after the attacks. In one section, he advised would-be followers to wear ""Lacoste etc, conservative colours"" in order not to arouse suspicion. Lacoste has asked the authorities in Norway to prevent Anders Behring Breivik from wearing the brand.
THW grant Lacoste’s request."
Semi Finals - Elections:
THW ban exit polls.
THBT it is legitimate for political parties to use sops as election promises. Semis
THW allow voters to select a least preferred candidate (negative vote) along with a most preferred candidate.
Grand Finals - Social Contract & Organic Change:
THB in the absolute right of individual over one's own body.
THBT anti sedition laws have no place in democracies.
THBT WLDs needn't be accommodative of the cultural notions of immigrants at the cost of ideals it believes in.
