James Squire Food, Beer and Wine Writer’s Festival Debate
As part of the James Squire Food, Beer and Wine Writers’ Festival which is part of the larger Tasting Australia festival we were invited to provide a team for a public debate on the topic “That cooking and writing about it will be irrelevant to the next generation”. Representing Debating SA and Pembroke School was a team of Year […]
2007 Senior Grand Finals at Parliament House
On Wednesday 19th September 2007, the Year 10 and Senior division Grand Finals of the 2007 Schools’ Competition were held in the Assembly Chamber of Parliament House. The evening began with a welcome from Miss Chloe Fox MP, Member for Bright. This was then followed by a welcome from Debating SA’s Immediate Past President, Mr Tony […]
2007 Debating Training
To help debaters prepare for the 2007 Debating Season, Debating SA recently held training workshops. Presented by Debating SA’s Training and Development Officer, Sonja Lowen, the workshops proved a huge success with many students, teachers and parents commenting on the great learning experience. The Primary School sessions saw 40 students attend with their parents and teachers on […]
2006 Senior Grand Finals at Parliament House
At Debating SA we aim to make our finals’ series a special event. We were again privileged to hold our Year 10A and Senior A Grand Finals in the magnificent venue of Parliament House. On Wednesday 6th September 2006 the Year 10A and Senior A grand finals of the schools’ competition were held in the […]
2005 Global Issues Tournament
The Global Issues Tournament aims to introduce students to issues that our global community faces and gives them the chance to explore these issues through debate. The 2005 tournament saw forty-five participants from eight schools. The third annual Global Issues Tournament was held at Adelaide High School on Thursday 24th November 2005. The topic was [...]2005 Debating in Parliament House
At Debating SA we aim to make our finals’ series a special event. We were privileged to hold our Year 10A and Senior A Grand Finals in Parliament House. Following is an article written by one of the Year 10A Grand Finalists. In 2005, the Debating SA Year 10A and Senior A Grand Finals were […]
2004 Global Issues Tournament
On Thursday 2 December 2004, thirty-six students and their teachers took part in the 2004 Global Issues Tournament, which was proudly sponsored by Hays Personnel Services. The purpose of the tournament was to give year eight and nine students the chance to participate in a mini debating tournament in which they developed their skills by [...] 2004 Adjudicator Training
At the end of the 2003 season we put out the call for 50 new adjudicators by 2004. With the help of UniBooks we put up posters, sent emails and made many phone calls to spread the word about our need for adjudicators. As you will notice when the season starts, we got the message […]
Unibooks Showcase Debate
As a special event a tournament was held to discern who the best individual speaker in each role within the senior students was. Some of the top senior debaters from around Adelaide competed to find out just who is the best debater with prizes from Unibooks for Everyone who participated and trophies for the winning […]
2003 Global Issues Tournament
The idea behind the Global Issues Tournament was to hold an international style tournament over one day which included a significant workshop component to allow for topics that students may not easily be able to debate in normal circumstances. The topic for this year was "That Bob Brown had the right to speak his mind [...]