Looks like Minjae, Hannah and Shendy did pretty well!
Another Day At Melboure (ADAM) 2009 Topics (by CA Nicole Lynch)
ROUND 1: Health
That we should abolish subsidies of the private healthcare system
That we should cap payouts for medical malpractice suits
That we should restrict the testing of drugs in the third world
ROUND 2: Environment
That we should ban the selling of personal carbon offsets.
That international climate change targets should be based on national consumption and not national production of CO2.
That we should stop investing in ‘clean coal’ technology.
ROUND 3: Women
That Western countries should legalise female circumcision.
That we should ban single sex clubs.
That we should offer automatic asylum in the West for women fleeing Iran.
ROUND 4: Indigenous
That environmental protection should be prioritised ahead of indigenous economic development.
That the Australian government should no longer support indigenous outstations.
That we should have reserved seats in parliament for Indigenous Australians.
ROUND 5: International Relations
That the US should restrict military aid to Israel until there is a halt on all settlement growth.
That the international community should intervene militarily to support the Government of Somalia to defeat the rebels.
That the US should immediately disarm their nuclear arsenal.
QUARTERFINALS: Democracy
That California should abolish public ballot initiatives.
That the US President should have line-item veto power.
That Presidential elections should be entirely publicly financed.
SEMIFINALS: Economics
That we should legalise all strike action taken by unions.
That we should ban leveraged buyouts.
That the profits from oil and gas sales in developing countries should be placed in an internationally administered trust fund.
GRAND FINAL: Development
That developing democracies should ban political parties based on ethnicity.
That developing countries should abolish their militaries in return for debt forgiveness and increased foreign aid.
That post conflict nations should focus on development and not democracy.
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