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House Debating 2022

After two years of online House Debating, it was lovely to see students engage with their House Debating teams in person.

Staff adjudicators agreed that this was a high quality and energetic competition which has seen students lose none of their sharpness or skills in the online years.

Covering a range of topics relating to social and environmental issues that impact students currently and in the long term, our debaters needed to approach each topic with maturity, intelligence, and sensitivity.

The debate topics were designed to facilitate conversations that students will need to engage with in adolescence including:

House Debating: Heats	House Debating: Finals
That parents should have access to their children’s social media accounts That we should have video surveillance in all public places That sport and politics should be separate That we should abolish the ATAR system of university entrance That social media makes us less social That pen and paper should be abolished in schools	That beauty pageants should be banned That we regret the rise in popularity of K-Pop That we should have a youth curfew That consumer goods should be sourced ethically That we need to keep providing solutions to issues relating to First Nations people That the characters in the Year 12 English texts get the justice they deserve