2008 Moots
Moots debated in 2008:
Easters Introduction Night (12/03/08):
This house believes that the West should boycott the Beijing Olympics
This house believes that we should implement a work for the dole scheme
This house believes that NZ should become a republic
This house would allow whaling
Vic Champs Round 1 (19/03/08):
This house would have a black man in the White House
This house supports voluntary student membership
This house supports the use of torture in the war on terror
This house supports a flat tax
Pro-Am 2008
Round 1: Education
This House supports performance based pay for teachers
This House supports the banning of overt religious symbols in public schools
This House would oblige faith based schools to accept students of other religions
Round 2: Indigenous Peoples
This House believes indigenous peoples convicted of crimes should be sentenced by their own communities
This House believes the Maori Party could form a viable coalition with the National Party
This House believes the Maori Party is a positive development in New Zealand politics
Round 3: Liberty
This House would privatise prisons
This House would allow individuals to sell their organs
This House believes in user pays tertiary education
Final: Random
This House supports child labour
This House supports quotas for women in national Parliaments
Easters 2008
Round 1: Food
This House would subsidise dairy products
This House supports a fat tax
Round 2: Transport
This House would nationalise New Zealand’s Railways
This House would make commuter public transport free
Round 3: IR
This House would offer Mugabe immunity in exchange for his resignation
This House would forcibly disarm Fiji
Round 4: Alcohol
This House would impose a minimum price for alcoholic beverages
This House would allow bar owners to raise the age of admission for their bars
Round 5: Social Policy
This House would allow doctors to set their own fees
This House would require all new housing developments to include low cost housing
Round 6: Consent
This House would legalise bestiality
This House would allow parents to sterilise intellectually disabled children
Round 7: Electoral Systems
This House would abolish the 5% threshold for representation under MMP
This House supports Maori seats on local and regional councils
Semi final one: International Institutions
This House would host all Olympic Games in the developing world
This House would found a league of democracies
Semi final two: Labour
This House would fine employers who do not ensure their employees take regular breaks
This House would allow employers to discriminate on the basis of religion when hiring
Final: The Environment
This House would sink ships to save whales
This House believes Kyoto Protocol signatories should only trade with one another
Joynt Scroll 2008
This House believes that universities should be reserved for the best and the brightest
This House would execute war criminals
This House would introduce minimum environmental standards in the World Trade Organisation
This House believes that pornography is an affront to feminism
This House would end all Government funded campaigns to ‘get out the vote’
Semi-Final: This House believes in an open immigration policy
Final: This House would privatise all state owned enterprises
NZ British Parliamentary Open Debating Champs 2008
This House believes the gay community should out gay celebrities
This House believes the military should overthrow governments that have lost popular legitimacy
This House would criminalise individuals and organisations who do not recycle
This House would abolish all forms of affirmative action
This House would allow parents to cast proxy votes on behalf of their children
This House believes the Palestinians should give up the Right of Return
Semi-finals: This House would make insulting religion a crime
Final: This House believes freer markets, not more government intervention, are the solution to the current economic crisis
