UNSW win Sydney Mini 2005

Australian Parliamentary Debating Championship 2005 ("Sydney Mini Series 2005")

Winners: UNSW1 (Gill White and Alex Grey)

Grand Final teams:
OG- Sydney 5 (Chris Croke & Phil Senior)
OO- Sydney 7 (Brad Lanken & Hamish White)
CG- Melbourne 1 (Daniel Kinsey & Elizabeth Sheargold)
CO- UNSW 1 (Gill White and Alex Grey)

Best speaker: Phil Senior
Best novice: Chris Croke

Motions:
(Rd 1) TTHW use martial law to control the rioters
(Rd 2) THHW provide universal child care to working mothers
(Rd 3) TTHW give New Europe freedom of labour movement
(Rd 4) TTHW prosecute the home computer music pirates
(Rd 5) TTHW require migrants to pass an exam before granting them citizenship
(Rd 6) TTHW apply Equal Opportunity Legislation to the Church
(Semi Final) TTHS citizen initiated referenda
(Grand Final) TTHW try Saddam in private

Note from Michael Zelas, CA of the Sydney MINI:
This tournament took place over the past weekend with the following results I'm gobsmacked that we had a similar finals topic to Cork!!! Rounds 3, 6, semi and grand worked best.

Sydney Win Cork IV

Cork IV results:

Winners: Sydney A (Ivan Ah Sam & Dominic Thurbon)

Top Team tab: UCD L&H H (Margurite Carter & Loisa Ni Eideain)

Best Speaker Tab: Loisa Ni Eideain (UCD L&H H)

Best Speaker Final: Ivan Ah Sam (Sydney A)

Motions1) TTHW Remove Religion From Education

2) TTHW Tie Human Rights to the olympic games

3) TTHW Force priests to testify as to the content of confessions

4) TTHW remove all tax privileges from artists.

5) TTH Supports 24hr drinking licences

QF: TTBT Britain should destroy its nukes

Semi: THW Ban international adoption Novice:

TTHW Pay surrogate mothers Final:

TTHW Ban any further televisation of the Saddam Hussein Trial

Cork Invitational

UCD L&H (Connolly and Harvey) have won the Cork Invitational.

Final
1st Prop: Sydney A
1st Opp: King's Inns
2nd Prop: UCD L&H
2nd Opp: TCD Phil

Motion: TTHW force alcoholics to go cold turkey.

Cambridge Win English Mace

Cambridge (Alyson Thomson & Nick Devlin) have won the 2005 English Mace (in effect the English National Championships). They will go forward to the International Mace to fact the champions from Ireland, Scotland and Wales in 2006.

Best team on the tab was BPP (Fraser Campbell & Rebecca Gill). Top speaker was Tara Mounce (Oxford).

If anyone can provide motions and details of the final please post a comment or e-mail me.

UPDATE: (Thanks to Usman Ahmed)

the motions were,

R1) THW impose term limits on Prime Ministers

R2) THW end state funding of sportsmen and -women

R3) THBT ICANN should no longer report to the US government

R4) THW reintroduce grammar schools

R5) THBT Ariel Sharon was wrong to leave the likud party

R6) THW not have state funding for faith-based charities

SF) THW have an amnesty for illegal immigrants

Final) THW create a truth and reconciliation commission for Northern Ireland

the Final was

1st Prop - BPP A (Becca Gill & Fraser Campbell)

1st Opp - Cambridge A (Nick Devlin & Alyson Thompson)

2nd Prop - Bristol A (Hannah Klein & Usman Ahmed)

2nd Opp - Oxford B (Tara Mounce & Richard Goodman)

Cambridge A beat Bristol A on a 4-3 split decision.

The final judging panel was: Nick Paceco, Seb Isaac, Richard Osborne,Alexis Hearnden, Jack Anderson, Andrew Fitch & Neill Harvey-Smith