Australian Intervarsity Debating Championships

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The Australian Intervarsity Debating Championships (known colloquially as "Easters") is Australia's largest debating tournament, held each year over the Easter period. The tournament has a focus on developing novice debaters who have not yet debated at the Australasian or World Universities Debating Championships. The first major Inter-varsity tournament of the year, Easters follows a three-speakers without replies debating style in preparation for the Australasian championships which include reply speeches.

Due to the novice nature of the tournament, experienced debaters ensure a high standard of adjudicators. Each University is required by AIDA council to follow an Affirmative Action requirement of having at least one third of its contingent being female. Further, there must be two "novices" in each team, novices being those who have never debated at an Australs or Worlds, nor at two easters. Debaters give 8 minute speeches and there are no reply speeches or points of information.

The first Easters tournament was held in 1990 by the Australian National University with Simon Banks was the Convenor and Clayton Long the Chief Adjudicator. These two had been instrumental in hosting the Australasian championships at the Australian National University the previous year and used the surplus funds left over from that tournament towards this novice tournament. At that stage the tournament was a one-off but under the auspices of the newly-formed Australasian Intervarsity Debating Association (AIDA) and with the support of the Monash Association of Debaters, Monash University hosted the tournament in 1991 and the tournament's future was secured.

Over Easter 2007 the tournament was hosted by the University of Sydney Union. In 2008, it will be hosted by Macquarie University.

1 Past Finalists and Hosts
2 Best Speakers
3 Best Novice Speakers
4 Future Championships
5 External links

[edit] Past Finalists and Hosts

Year	Champions	Runners Up	Hosts
2007	University of Queensland	University of Melbourne	University of Sydney
2006	Australian National University	University of Sydney	Australian National University
2005	University of Sydney	University of Sydney	University of Western Australia
2004	University of Sydney	University of Queensland	University of New South Wales
2003	Australian National University	University of Adelaide	University of Queensland
2002	Australian National University	University of Sydney	University of Adelaide
2001	University of New South Wales	Australian National University	University of Sydney
2000	University of New South Wales	University of Melbourne	University of Melbourne
1999	University of New South Wales	University of Sydney	University of New South Wales
1998	Australian National University	Monash University	Australian National University
1997	University of Melbourne	University of Sydney	University of Melbourne
1996	University of Melbourne	University of New South Wales	University of Adelaide
1995	Australian National University	University of Sydney	University of Sydney
1994	Monash University	University of Melbourne	Monash University
1993	Australian National University	Monash University	Macquarie University
1992	Monash University	University of Melbourne	Australian National University
1991	University of Sydney	Macquarie University	Monash University
1990	Australian National University	University of New South Wales	Australian National University

[edit] Best Speakers

Year	Best Speaker	University
2007	Sienna Merope	University of Melbourne
2006	Amit Golder	Monash University
2005	Tom Robertson	University of Sydney
2004	David Solomon Jenny Bowles	University of Western Australia Australian National University
2003	Shannon Price	University of Sydney
2002	Kate Mason	University of New South Wales
2001	Anthony Jones	University of Sydney
2000	Pete Morris	University of New South Wales
1999	Andrew Gormly	University of Adelaide
1998	Nick Wood	Australian National University
1997	Chris Bacon	University of Melbourne
1996	Michael Walsh	University of New South Wales
1995	David Ruschena	Monash University

[edit] Best Novice Speakers

Year	Best Novice Speaker	University
2007	Sienna Merope	University of Melbourne
2006	Steve Hind	University of Sydney
2005	Tom Robertson	University of Sydney
2004	Jenny Bowles	Australian National University
2003	Shannon Price	University of Sydney
2002	Patrick Delaney	Australian National University
2001	Anthony Jones	University of Sydney
2000	Mark Thomson	Australian National University
1999	Sarah Kennedy	University of Melbourne
1998	Mark Thomson	Australian National University
1997	Anthea Roberts	Australian National University
1996
1995	Luke Oliver Tim Maxwell	Monash University University of Melbourne