Round 1

Date Start Venue Debate Affirmative Negative Topic
20 March 2024 8:00 PM Hobart College S2024DC002 St Michael's Collegiate 1 Elizabeth College 1 That, as a previously famous artist who has fallen out of the mainstream, we would make music specifically designed to go viral on TikTok
5 June 2024 11:50 AM Mount Carmel College S2024DC003 Hobart College 2 Hobart College 1 That famous artists should not be permitted to comment on political issues

Round 2

Date Start Venue Debate Affirmative Negative Topic
3 April 2024 8:00 PM Hobart City High School (New Town Campus) S2024DC004 Hobart College 1 St Michael's Collegiate 1 That the Jacqui Lambie Network has been good for democracy
3 April 2024 8:00 PM Hobart City High School (New Town Campus) S2024DC006 Elizabeth College 1 Hobart College 2 That the Tasmanian Greens and the Tasmanian Labor Party should form a permanent coalition

Round 3

Date Start Venue Debate Affirmative Negative Topic
1 May 2024 8:00 PM Venue TBA S2024DC007 Hobart College 2 Hobart College 1 Advised subject: Environment and urban planning: tourism
1 May 2024 8:00 PM Venue TBA S2024DC008 Elizabeth College 1 St Michael's Collegiate 1 Advised subject: Environment and urban planning: tourism

Round 4

Date Start Venue Debate Affirmative Negative Topic
15 May 2024 8:00 PM Mount Carmel College S2024DC010 Hobart College 1 St Michael's Collegiate 1 That, if it existed and worked perfectly, we would choose to use technology which removed all people’s memories of the year 2020
15 May 2024 8:00 PM Mount Carmel College S2024DC011 Hobart College 2 Elizabeth College 1 That, if it existed and worked perfectly, we would choose to use technology which removed all people’s memories of the year 2020

Round 5

Date Start Venue Debate Affirmative Negative Topic
29 May 2024 8:00 PM St Michael's Collegiate S2024DC015 St Michael's Collegiate 1 Hobart College 2 That we regret the social narrative that scientific literature is a more legitimate source of knowledge than anecdote and lived experience
24 July 2024 6:30 PM Menzies Institute for Medical Research S2024DC013 Elizabeth College 1 Hobart College 1 That we would prefer a world where we were unaware that climate change was caused by humans

Round 6

Date Start Venue Debate Affirmative Negative Topic
12 June 2024 8:00 PM The Friends' School (Middle School Campus) S2024DC017 Elizabeth College 1 St Michael's Collegiate 1 That we prefer depictions of powerful women in fiction as villains
12 June 2024 8:00 PM The Friends' School (Middle School Campus) S2024DC018 Hobart College 1 Hobart College 2 Advised subject: Gender: feminism and the media