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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 Season Results

Year 8 Division Grand Final Winner: Pembroke School Purple D. Barnett, S. de Cure and D. Skene. Runner Up: Pembroke School Yellow D. Skene, J. McCann and J. Metz. Year 9 Division Grand Final Winner: Marryatville High School Red F. Karmel, J. Stamatakis and J. Roder. Runner Up: Adelaide High School Red E. Blitchfeldt, S. […]

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 [...]

Gift Wrapping at Borders Book Store

Debating SA doesn’t shut down in the off-season. Our operations group continues to work and, as many of you noticed at Christmas, so do our volunteers. Every year in the mad rush that leads up to December 25th, our generous sponsors Borders allow a team of volunteers to man their in-store gift wrapping booth. A […]

2003 Season Results

Year 8 Division Grand Final Winner: St. George College Purple Anastasi Kosmadopoulos, Georgette Toyias, Maria Dalas, Marie Kyriacou, Peter Mylidonis, Tina Zissis and Zoe Kosmadopoulos Runner Up: Marryatville High School Blue Amanda Pirone, Ella Waters, John Stamatakis and Katherine Schell Year 9 Division Grand Final Winner: Pembroke School Purple Alice Footer, Ashleigh Teo, Dunja Nedic and […]