Debating

Today was the first debate for the PDC for the year. I was markedly put out to discover that unlike in previous years when the year 12 competition allowed one to talk for 13 minutes, this year our speaking time has been cut down to nine.

I cannot sufficiently destroy the other team's case in 9 minutes. I can destabilise it, and perhaps knock down a few walls, but I cannot raze it to the ground in 9 minutes.

Either way, the debate on school league tables was won by us, a good start to the zone party of the competition.

In our zone there are two Caringbah teams and on team from Kirrawee. We debated one of the Caringbah teams today. The other team was in the audience compiling notes on us and our speaking styles.

We must really have threatened them.

Either way, it's good to be back into debating. Where else would I be able to say that an attempt to nationalise the curriculum is a fascist plot by the government to infringe on our rights and to make the state governments more reliant on federal.