Oral Presentations

Oral Topic List 2025

Students struggling with 'placement poverty'

Banning TikTok for under 16s

Housing crisis

Cost of living

Cancel culture and political correctness

NDIS

Vaping

Indigenous Voice in Parliament

Immigration and border control

Mass teacher exodus

Australia: republic or monarchy?

AI in Australian schools

Australia's energy policies

Should duck hunting be banned across Australia?

The right to protest: are Australia's new protest laws too severe?

The importance of libraries

Australia should end its alliance with the US

That the government should subsidise tourism in regional Victoria 

That the government should fund universal free childcare

Women's only spaces - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/07/tasmanias-mona-to-challenge-decision-to-let-men-into-ladies-only-art-lounge

Should the Australian government implement more drastic measures to keep children safe on the internet?

Should schooling offer online classes / dual delivery to students? 


Should Australia become a cashless society?

That Australia should introduce a four day a week work week.

That the cosmetic surgery industry should be more tightly regulated.

Should graphically violent video games be banned due to their detrimental real-life effects?

Youth crime

Deforestation and mining industries 

Taxing the wealthy

Oral Presentation Topic List ARCHIVE

That Australia should ban TikTok

Australia should double its immigration intake

Vladimir Putin should be banned from all international forums including the G20 in Bali

All non-electric cars should be subject to a green tax

That all public toilets should be unisex

Australian schools should have guards as a result of US school shootings

That the manufacture and sale of electric vehicles should be subsidised by the government

That the cosmetic surgery industry should be more tighly regulated

That the availability of e-cigarettes should be carefully regulated.

That the recommendations of the Uluru Voice from the Heart should be implemented without delay 

That nuclear power should be considered as an option for Australia

Wellbeing days should be compulsory in the workplace

That all workplaces should offer menstrual leave

That the culture of Parliament House needs a good shake-up

That transgender people should be allowed to play professional contact sport.

The rollout of bike lanes in the CBD should stop

The religious institutions should not be exempt from anti-discrimination laws

Australia should become a cashless society

That sportspeople who are caught using steroids shouldn’t be given a second chance.

That electric cars should be made compulsory

Weekend penalty rates should be abolished for the hospitality industry

That Australia is not a racist society 

That the current Parliament House scandals are setting a negative/poor example, for future generations.

Australia should take military action against China in the Pacific 

The coal industry still has a future in Australia

That the Australian government should fund the ‘arts’ industry.

That the concept of consent should be a priority in all schools

All Australian secondary schools should be co-ed

That Australia should become a republic after the Queen’s death 

Flu vaccinations should be compulsory

That Catholic schools should embrace 'safe schools'

That Victoria does not need another safe injecting room

That every state should pass voluntary euthanasia laws

That there should not be domestic violence paid leave

That gender quotas should be locked into Parliament for all parties

Recreational duck hunting should be banned in Victoria

Traditional owners should have water rights in the Murray-Darling Basin

That Murdoch has too much say in Australian media

That we should leave the Australian flag/ anthem alone

That mandatory sentencing is a good fit for Victoria

That the 'woke' movement is going too far

That the Federal Government has failed the elderly

That the ABC needs to find a better political balance

That the sport of Boxing should be banned permanently

That parental controls should be available on Instagram

That e-scooter use should be better controlled

That all secondary schools should be co-educational

That AFL football umpires should be better protected from abuse