NATO is a military alliance comprising 32 countries in Europe and North America, including the USA, Canada, the UK, France and Germany, among others. Each NATO state has agreed to defend any other NATO state from an attack by another state.

You are an academically successful high school student in Australia. You have two offers for tertiary education. You have received admission into a highly competitive programme in your first preference degree at a prestigious Australian university. You have also received an offer for a highly lucrative scholarship at a lesser-known Australian university that does not offer the your first preference degree.

A "friends to all, enemies to none" approach to international relations involves a state being open to receiving support from and engaging in collaboration with all other states.

Currently, the Pacific region receives the greatest amount of aid out of any region in the world. The largest donors to the region, in order, are: Australia, Japan, New Zealand, China and the US.

For the purposes of this debate, an "inheritance tax" is a tax on the money and property of a person who has just died. Currently, Australia does not tax the money or property of a deceased person.