The phrase "topic of public debate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe any subject that has been discussed or debated in the public sphere. For example: The topic of public debate around immigration reform has been divisive for many years.
"It's because European affairs are just not the main topic of public debate in Slovakia," he says.
That might raise sympathies in Italy, where the persecution of Christians in other parts of the world is a big topic of public debate.
Today playgrounds are once again a topic of public debate, only now concerns for educational and environmental values have replaced moral ones.
As early as 1865, when enfranchisement of former slaves was a topic of public debate, Minor was the first woman in Missouri to suggest publicly that women be granted the vote.
Well, the days of feminist martyrdom are over: in the runup to Poland's presidency of the European Union, women's rights have become a serious and respectable topic of public debate.
The ECHR held that the claimants' Article 10 rights had not been infringed, the publication of the photographs being purely commercial and not a contribution to any important topic of public debate.
Examples are situations of crisis or topics of public debate [75].
A distillation of France's stern educational style is the way it deals with its best and brightest — a topic that has recently become the subject of public debate and controversy there.
His topic, the health of public debate, matters.
But Wolff's book has thrust the topic to the forefront of public debate, prompting the White House to confront the issue directly.
But if it is a worthy topic for public debate, legislation like this raises several questions.
