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.
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[edit] Past Finalists and Hosts
[edit] Best Speakers
| Year | Best Speaker | University |
| 2008 | Claudia Newman-Martin | Australian National 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 |
| 2008 | Michael Falk Paul Karp |
University of Sydney University of Sydney |
| 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 |
[edit] Future Championships
- 2009 - to be hosted by University of Queensland

