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  • This house, as FIDE, would abolish gender-specific chess titles

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    FIDE is the world governing body for chess, overseeing rules, rankings, and titles like Grandmaster. While open titles have no gender restrictions, FIDE also awards exclusive titles to women, such as Woman Grandmaster (WGM), which require a lower ELO rating than their open counterparts.

    49th Mindanao Parliamentary Debate Championship · Round 1 · 2025-04-26

  • That, assuming feasibility, we support a tax on all unsolicited communications.

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    A communication is unsolicited when it was not reasonably sought or expected. Examples include junk mail, spam, public social media posts and comments or unexpected private communications to strangers (email, direct message, letter, etc). This does not include any communications with friends or family, nor face-to-face interactions.

    Melbourne Easters 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-04-21

  • That we would allocate LULUs by using the tender process.

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    A Locally Undesirable Land Use (LULU) is a type of land use that creates externality costs on those living in close proximity (bad smells, poor aesthetics, health hazards etc.) Examples of LULUs include prisons, garbage dumps, power plants and homeless shelters. In a tender process, each local community is required to submit a bid for an amount of compensation for which they would accept the LULU near them. The community that submits the lowest bid, is paid their requested compensation and the LULU is placed near them.

    Melbourne Easters 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-04-21

  • That we prefer schools to adopt a primarily academic educational philosophy rather than a holistic one.

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    Holistic educational philosophies emphasise making people, rather than teaching people. This emphasises moral instruction (e.g., politeness, de- emphasis on individuality in favour of group harmony) and community participation/service (e.g., cleaning and running events), alongside traditional academics.

    Melbourne Easters 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-04-21

  • That we prefer a world where the Clinton Administration fully implemented the recommendations of the 1995 U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform

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    In 1995, the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, chaired by Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, recommended a comprehensive overhaul of immigration policy that included reducing legal immigration from approximately 800,000 to 550,000 annually, eliminating visa preferences for adult children and siblings of U.S. citizens, prioritising skills-based immigration and nuclear family reunification, and strengthening border enforcement and employer sanctions. While the Clinton Administration implemented some of the Commission’s enforcement-related recommendations, it declined to adopt proposals to reduce legal immigration levels or restructure family-based immigration categories

    Melbourne Easters 2025 · Octofinals · 2025-04-21

  • That states with low fertility rates should implement the Hanson Proposal.

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    The Hanson Proposal would provide parents with a portion of all tax revenue paid by their children. It would also provide them with tax credits each year until their child turns 18. This would be revenue neutral, funded by the abolition of aged pensions.

    Melbourne Easters 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-04-21

  • That we prefer the 'Help to Buy' scheme to the 'Super for Housing' scheme.

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    Both major Australian political parties have proposed competing measures to assist first-home buyers. Labor have proposed the 'Help to Buy' scheme where the federal government would contribute up to 40% of the purchase price of a property, reducing the deposit and interest payments, in return for a 40% stake in the property. Homeowners could pay the government back over time or when they sell the property. The Coalition have proposed the 'Super for Housing' scheme where buyers can access up to $50k from their superannuation to contribute to a deposit on a house. Both schemes have eligibility requirements and other conditions.

    Melbourne Easters 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-04-21

  • That we support the use of analogue listing rather than individual listing when prohibiting NPS.

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    New psychoactive substances (NPS) are synthetic drugs designed to mimic the effects of illegal substances, with altered chemical structures to evade drug laws. New versions of these drugs are continuously being produced by clandestine drug laboratories and released into the public, predominantly for recreational use. There are two approaches to prohibiting these drugs. Individual listing, which is traditionally used in drug listing, only prohibits drugs explicitly named by legislation. Analogue listing pre-emptively prohibits drugs that are similar to existing illegal substances, either based on chemical composition or effects of consumption.

    Melbourne Easters 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-04-21

  • (A) In areas with relatively high crime rates, This house supports the implementation of Hugs, Not Bullets

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    "Hugs, Not Bullets" refers to a non-confrontational security policy whereby the state aims to tackle crime through addressing the root causes of crimes (e.g., providing rehabilitation services to drug users, offering social welfare to the poor) as opposed to reliance on police enforcement (e.g., frequent police checks, harsh sentences and punishments).

    Taiwan International Debate Open 2025 · Open Semifinals · 2025-04-19

  • (A) This house regrets the dominance of the nuclear family as the traditional model of parenting

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    Under the nuclear parenting model, the family unit consists of two adult parents and their dependent children where the responsibility of childcare falls exclusively on the two parents.

    Taiwan International Debate Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-04-19

  • (B) This house believes that forgiveness by the victim should not serve as grounds for reducing a criminal's sentence

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    In the status quo, victim forgiveness can reduce a criminal’s sentence, often treated as a mitigating factor during sentencing or parole, though it is not legally decisive.

    Taiwan International Debate Open 2025 · Pro-Am Grand Final · 2025-04-19

  • (A) This house supports the São Paulo governor's plan to use artificial intelligence (AI) in creating classroom content for public schools

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    The Brazilian public education system coexists with private schools, where private schools are often seen as superior. Many public schools are hindered by insufficient staff and decreased investment due to the latest economic crises. In 2024, the governor of São Paulo, Brazil, announced plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to create classroom content for public schools.

    Taiwan International Debate Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-04-19

  • (B) In fragile democracies, This house would ban the formation of youth wings of political parties

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    For the purposes of the debate, a "fragile democracy" is a democratic state wherein the quality and stability of government is inconsistent, e.g., frequent conflict between the ruling (majority) party and the opposition (minority) party, widespread populism, and authoritarian tendencies. Fragile democracies are still functional states.

    Taiwan International Debate Open 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-04-19

  • (B) In developing countries with low educational outcomes, This house would privately outsource educational institutions (e.g. schools)

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    For the purposes of the debate: (1) "Private outsourcing" is when an organization contracts a private company to perform specific tasks or services on behalf of the organization. (2) Low educational outcomes can be characterized by (but are not limited to) high drop-out rates, low attendance, low grade averages, etc.

    Taiwan International Debate Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-04-19

  • (B) This house would allow individuals to sue other individuals on the basis of religious indoctrination

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    For the purposes of the debate, the grounds for one individual (the claimant) to sue another individual (the defendant) on the basis of religious indoctrination relies on the claimant proving that the indoctrination caused by the defendant has caused significant harm to their life.

    Taiwan International Debate Open 2025 · Open Grand Final · 2025-04-19