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  • This house supports the establishment of government run grocery stores in urban food deserts

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    For the purposes of this debate, a food desert is defined as an area in which the majority of the population is: 1) more than 20 minutes from a grocery store by the dominant mode of transport in that area 2) low income

    ANU Spring 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-11-15

  • This house supports the sex exceptionalist view of sexual harm

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    A sex exceptionalist view of sexual harm holds that sexual harms are more severe than, and qualitatively distinct from, other forms of bodily or emotional harm.

    ANU Spring 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-11-15

  • This house supports the academisation of creative arts

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    The academisation of the creative arts refers to an increase in the proportion of workers in creative art fields (television, films, publishing etc) who hold university degrees in the creative arts (e.g. Masters of Fine Arts), as well as an increase in people holding such degrees more generally.

    ANU Spring 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-15

  • This house regrets the shift from imaginative play to goal-oriented play

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    Imaginative play refers to open-ended activities that encourage creativity and self-directed exploration - for instance building freely with LEGO, playing pretend, or creating original stories and worlds. Goal-oriented play refers to structured activities with pre-set objectives, narratives, or progression systems - for instance, story-driven video games, franchise-based toys (like Marvel or Star Wars sets), or games where success is measured by winning or completing specific missions.

    Hart House Autumn Split 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-15

  • This house believes that history is thick rather than thin

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    A thick view of history holds that that the macro state of society at a given point is largely determined by overwhelming structural forces which made that state close to inevitable. A thin view of history holds that it is largely as a result of a small number of factors (e.g. events, people or processes) which could easily have been different and lead to different outcomes, making that state subject to a substantial degree of randomness.

    ANU Spring 2025 · Novice Final · 2025-11-15

  • This house regrets the dominance of spectacle in contemporary art

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    In recent decades, contemporary art has increasingly challenged conventional ideas of what constitutes "art" and often prioritized provocation, novelty, or conceptual shock — broadly, spectacle — over traditional skills or aesthetics. Examples include "America" by Maurizio Cattelan (top left), "Erased de Kooning Drawing" by Robert Rauschenberg (top right), "Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn" by Ai Weiwei (bottom left), and "Balloon Dog" by Jeff Koons (bottom left). ![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rd-d/ALs6j_FVa2RC_r5bGrgQNKYtK5TXo2Tje_zEakt0bm_OwJX9kvZaOLeCuN60PhKhwsbb4dP9jkxlere7-Hy_xgGMlfZaBhfMAReQC3mz- zQNBMCHavFIDNHeLZ7JLFGMx9-bE64kj5yJDep6mXMdRy5R0vsCCZbCt46j8kD01Zb6yRi57c9DCYlBDFKhtVqnOnjB1HEUe1CvGxiiY4waz_AId-6EFfL_YAh45fN8djLt-e2aiOjoveom5YCoau5W_Km7hE24mMe1oUq_8VQ6cQLzu1S1dD9NcTTnSgM3fYYUz7BHj- kisT8BZ3LHYJJYvyzbev217gy6-rpA88fmo2YilQjQZjEbt_m4yRdsAtwtV_6omcQ4re5N2baaOVXDE5CvK5wh6FT54kP7FtKpQ15w9WIbkxC74R1nOSA10_mRv- duMUPQAMw5k5ukaI8C2w7Vpi0A1gU4wGAuhEmWxvALgM-8oTZC- AffUtDksTTMngwvKjlql5xl0_qUBLdrO3u8DkjfUZC47fk_gwDW- wpCptsWklJKYJ9GTJ-54jfTOHIhHPLzakLYLqSx6NN9XYCuhcMPrdrVj3TUcx- OiIVU7PkOBsV0Q5gYlSNVbwSWZPRrYyePV7psjXen2IQHUDqSZGC7dozB9iI5OYOs- Nj32YC9CnpgbFfO__x0Ffs3FkfSKJr6arODB11VQQTHzkDbFNQqeVz8Vi0Km0z7Fp9s0tg08Fz0_5anC8ZJp18N4lSZ_vWmzdkmZp0QocvtAMUmoSkJX7dBajvRR4lYGwwRqNnIKYc_anZGbZwbTnFKZUjMHgd2zVW39pmBuYk2mN9J8uB9Zd62mP0TynWM54wSp840yQNvF1ZQpN2OTARiLrirG56BOfV59rjMk2FKg3Lnll4OFHacjjUWyrHKyi7zaB8vaII5-7sU9NsQj0ZE9jAaK58SBPUfpwq6O4uGBUOptuwvGxXbUrgfIRVmr5baycdRE_PGIdWOwbwR_Wv6toyVg5OJd9Dqn62I4eAExw2cLTODzj6J_A=w2940-h1594)

    Hart House Autumn Split 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-15

  • This house regrets the deinstitutionalisation of mental health treatment.

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    The deinstitutionalisation of mental health treatment refers to the transition of care away from acute care to community-based care. Acute care refers to care occurring within a hospital (or ‘asylum’) where patients are admitted, sometimes involuntarily, and reside in the hospital for the duration of their treatment. Community based care refers to non-residential treatment, typically occurring within outpatient clinics or the patient’s own home. Relative to acute care, community care is less intense, occurring at most a few times a week, as opposed to every day. Since 1950, the number of UK acute beds has reduced from 150,000 to 27,000.

    Norwich Mini 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-14

  • This House Would Choose to be born on North Sentinel Island over being born randomly somewhere else in the world

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    North Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman archipelago in the Bay of Bengal, houses the Sentinelese, an isolated indigenous tribe that vigorously defends its seclusion from outsiders. For the purposes of this debate, if you are born on the North Sentinel Island, basic food security is guaranteed and no climate-change-related disasters will occur during your lifetime.

    Ecuadorian National Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-14

  • This House Regrets the rise of "Social Commerce"

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    For the purposes of this debate, "social commerce" stands for the expansion of social media into e-commerce, integrating shopping features, where users can discover, browse, and purchase products without leaving the app. Examples include Facebook Marketplace, Instagram Shopping, TikTok Shop, etc.

    Ecuadorian National Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-11-14

  • This house prefers for a society to have British humour rather than American humour

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    British style humour tends to be subtle, dead-pan and self-depricating often mocking the authorities and societal norms finding the humour in darkness. American style humour tends to be direct and upbeat often jokes are around big personalities and the comedians’ use of body language.

    Norwich Mini 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-14

  • This house prefers a world in which people believe A theory of time rather than B theory of time.

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    A-Theory of time claims that time flows; the present is uniquely real, while the past no longer exists and the future does not yet exist. B-Theory of time claims that all points in time; past, present, and future are equally real. Time does not pass; it simply is.

    Norwich Mini 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-14