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Chief Adjudicator: Jacob Clifton
Deputy Chief Adjudicators: Leloy Claudio, Sayeqa Islam, and Jason Jarvis
Round 1
Education
- That extra fees or donations above the actual cost of education
should not be used to gain admission into university.
- That talented students should be taught separately from their peers.
- That indigenous people should have free and unqualified access to university.
Round 2
Global Financial Crisis
- That Governments should bail out homeowners directly.
- That trade unions should have their power restricted during times of economic crisis.
- That Governments should obtain a majority stake in companies that they bail out.
Round 3
Sexuality
- That the gay rights movement should not support the institution of marriage.
- That we should recognise the right of religious groups to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
- That sexual education classes at school should include, but not be limited to:
sexual orientation, anal sex, mutual gratification and masturbation.
Round 4
The Environment
- That population control should be part of any global approach to tackle climate change.
- That protection of the environment should be considered a mitigating factor when sentencing eco-terrorists.
- That the developed world should not sell contaminated material to the developing world for processing.
Round 5
Borders
- That soldiers who have fought for foreign countries should be granted citizenship within the country that they fought for.
- That this house would open all borders.
- That the US should grant citizenship to all Guantanamo detainees regardless of guilt.
Round 6
Latin America
- That the United States should stop funding the Columbian Government.
- That Latin American countries should take action against countries whose leaders took power through military coups.
- That the United States should stop buying Hugo Chavez's oil.
Round 7
Law
- That single parents in prison should be provided special treatment to allow them to raise their young children from behind bars.
- That parliamentarians should receive no compensation beyond their base salary.
- That employees of the United States Government who authorised or carried out "enhanced interrogation techniques" during the Bush administration should be prosecuted.
Round 8
The "STOP" round
- That we should ban celebrities from participating in political campaigns.
- That we should ban mail-order brides.
- That we should ban the use and development of all unmanned offensive military weaponry.
Octo-Finals
- That the international community should provide material support to
the Iranian opposition
- That we should detain and search North Korean vessels suspected
of carrying nuclear weapons technology. (?)
- That aid to Pakistan should be conditional on allowing international forces to
secure and monitor their nuclear weapons installations.
Quarter Finals
- That businesses should refuse to comply with China’s internet restrictions.
- That the hiring and firing by employers should not be influenced by information found on social networking sites.
- That the Government should subsidise print journalism.
Semi-Finals
- That water should not be privatised.
- That we should create an international market for the sale of babies. (?)
- That we should create a global free market for the sale of all drugs.
ESL Semi-Finals
- That Western countries should ban the wearing of the burkha in public spaces.
- That Governments should not provide religious services to
its military personnel.
- That aid agencies should not be allowed to undertake missionary activites.
ESL Grand Final
- That ASEAN should establish a Human Rights Court
- That the European Parliament should be abolished.
Grand Final
- That Palestine should accept demilitarisation in return for a
guaranteed sovereign state.
- That we should grant the Roma Gypsies a sovereign state.
- That we should divide Sudan.