Motions from 2025

Junior Open

• Round 1
  • This House would require all school students to play a team sport.
• Round 2
  • This House believes that people should be required to obtain a parenting licence in order to raise children. Note: if someone is to have a child without a license, the child will be taken into foster care.
• Round 3
  • This House would make all schools co-educational (Advised topic: Single Sex Schools).
• Round 4
  • This House would ban animal testing (Advised topic: Animal Testing).
• Round 5
  • This House would tax products high in sugar.

Senior Open

• Round 1
  • This House would pay additional benefits to families on welfare according to their child’s performance in school.
• Round 2
  • This House would only let democracies host international sports events.
• Round 3
  • This House would ban social media for those under age 16.
• Round 4
  • This House believes that from Year 11 onwards, the education system should be divided into an academic stream and a vocational stream (e.g. hairdressing and plumbing).
• Round 5
  • This House would ban fast fashion.

Advanced Open (Central)

• Round 1
  • This House would require professional licensing for content creators (eg YouTubers, TikTokers, video game streamers, authors, online publishers).
• Round 2
  • This House would ban schools from having rules on student’s physical appearance (e.g. makeup, jewelry, piercings, hair).
• Round 3
  • This House would pay teachers based on their performance (eg students’ test results, feedback from teachers and principals).
• Round 4
  • This House believes that the government should prioritise funding grassroots sport as opposed to high performance sport.
• Round 5
  • This House would ban strikes for essential state services workers.

Premier Junior

• Round 1
  • This House opposes children’s media centred around dark themes (eg death, illness, depression) such as Bridge to Terabithia, Coraline, Coco.
• Round 2
  • This House would choose the job they are passionate about.
• Round 3
  • This House opposes the focus on personality in politics.
• Round 4
  • This House supports charter schools.
• Round 5
  • This House would not allow high schools to recruit students using sports scholarships.
• Round 6
  • This House supports companies continuing to encourage employees to work from home.
• Round 7
  • This House would prioritise environmental policy on adaptation to climate change, rather than prevention.

Premier Advanced

• Round 1
  • A political firewall is when mainstream political parties refuse to co-operate with an extreme political party. E.g. not including them in coalition talks, refusing to support their members bills, not putting out joint statements/press conferences/events. This House believes that mainstream political parties should enact a firewall against extreme political parties.
• Round 2
  • Anti-aging technology refers to scientific advancements, medical treatments, and biotechnological innovations designed to slow, prevent, or reverse the aging process at a biological, cellular, or cosmetic level. This House opposes the rise of anti-aging technology.
• Round 3
  • This House prefers adolescent literature that prominently involves the children’s parents, rather than those that portray them as absent.
• Round 4
  • This House would give automatic sentencing discounts to all offenders belonging to historically oppressed racial groups.
• Round 5
  • This House believes that governing bodies of historically women-dominated sports (e.g. netball, synchronised swimming, softball) should invest significant resources into increasing male engagement and participation in the sport.
• Round 6
  • In 2024, the New Zealand Government introduced a fast-track approvals process for major infrastructure and development projects. This allows certain projects to bypass or shorten standard environmental approval and consultation requirements in order to be completed more quickly. This House supports prioritising faster economic development over greater environmental protections (e.g. New Zealand’s fast-tracking approvals process).
• Round 7
  • This House supports an expectation that individuals should always act selflessly.