Sydney (Julia Bowes, Naomi Oreb, Steve Hind) won Australs defeating Monash on a 6-1 split and Naomi Oreb (Sydney) was best speaker on the tab and in the final.
Top 10 speakers:
1, Naomi Oreb (Sydney 1)
2. Julia Bowes (Sydney 1)
3. Charisse Borromeo (Ateneo 1)
4. Sharmila Parmanand (Ateneo 1)
5 = Lauren Humphrey (Uni Queensland 1) & Jack Wright (Sydney 2)
7. Tim Mooney (Sydney 2)
8 = Lucia Pietropaoli (Melbourne 1) & Christopher Bishop (Victoria Wellington 1)
10. Stephen Whittington (Victoria Wellington 1)
International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) won the ESL defeating Universitas Indonesia (UI) in the final.
ESL top speakers:
1st – Miranda Anwar (UI)
2nd – Yvonne Ngai (UHK)
3rd – Freida Siregar (UI)
Final: Weapons
That international institutions should use force to restrict the sale of small arms to African nations
That gun ownership should be restricted to law enforcement agencies
That we should rely on mutual assured destruction rather than on nuclear non-proliferation
Semis: Pedophilia
That we would abolish the crime of statutory rape
That police officers should be banned from posing as children on the internet to catch pedophiles
That capital punishment should be allowed in cases of child rape
Quarters: US Racial Politics
That we should vote for Barack Obama on the basis of his race
That low-income ethnic neighborhoods should be protected from gentrification
That Latinos should have the right to be taught in Spanish
Octos: Health
That hymen reconstruction surgeries should be banned
That IVF clinics should be stopped from implanting embryos known to have disabilities
That all restrictions on the advertising of prescription drugs should be removed
ESL Final: Energy
That the price of petrol should be determined entirely by the market
That we would drill for oil in the arctic circle
That the production of non-hybrid cars should be stopped
ESL Semis: Immigration
That industrialized nations should be forced to accept climate change refugees
That states should remove all restrictions against the immigration of HIV-infected people
That medical workers from developing countries should not be allowed to migrate to the developed world
Round 1: Conflict Zones
That the UN should hire mercenaries for military operations
That African states should recognize Tsvangirai as the rightful leader of Zimbabwe
That we would respect China’s right to prosecute foreign athletes who protest at the Beijing Olympics
Round 2: Sin
That we would ban groups that glorify obesity
That governments should not take any action to discourage individuals from smoking
That problem gamblers should have their welfare payments suspended
Round 3: Philippines
That we should end US involvement in fighting terrorism in Southern Mindanao
That we have had enough People Power revolutions
That the Philippines should adopt Chavez-style land reforms
Round 4: Business and Trade
That corporate regulators should have veto power over executive bonuses
That we would protect nationally important companies from ownership by foreign government entities
That the WTO should abandon consensus voting as the basis for decision-making
Round 5: Sustainable Development
That areas of high ecological value should be returned to indigenous peoples for management
That arable lands should not be used for growing crops for bio-fuels
That individuals should be given carbon quotas
Round 6: Bois and Grrrls
That we would create separate units for gays in the military
That governments should ban groups that seek to ’straighten out’ gay men and women
That we would allow minors to have sex change operations
Round 7: Science and Tech
That all state-funded projects should be open source
That genetic research that attributes negative traits to particular races should not be pubilshed
That nations should be able to charge licensing fees for the use of genetic information from their native plants and animals
Round 8: Democracy
That candidates should be disallowed from using their own money to finance their campaigns
That the West should cease pressuring transitioning democracies to hold elections
That we would abolish political parties
Women’s debate:
That pre and post opt transsexuals should be allowed into women-only organizations
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