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Australia–Asia Debate, sometimes referred to as Australasian Debating or Australs Style, is a form of academic debate.In the past few years, this style of debating has increased in usage dramatically throughout Australia and New Zealand as well as the broader Asian region, but in the case of Asian countries including Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, the format is also used alongside ...
The United Asian Debating Championship (UADC) is an annual debating tournament for teams from universities in Asia. It is the largest inter-varsity Parliamentary Debate tournament in Asia, [1] with over 600 participants. The UADC holds debates in the Asian 3-on-3 format Parliamentary Debating.
World Schools Style debate (or WSS) is a debate format combining the British Parliamentary and Australia-Asian debating formats. Designed in 1988 to meet the needs of the World Schools Debating Championships tournament, it has become popular internationally as one of the main English high school debate formats. As an international format, the ...
A subsidiary motion is a type of motion by which a deliberative assembly deals directly with a main motion prior to (or instead of) voting on the main motion itself. [12] Each subsidiary motion ranks higher than the main motion and lower than the privileged motions, and also yields to applicable incidental motions.
Parliamentary style debate, colloquially oftentimes just Parliamentary debate, is a formal framework for debate used in debating societies, academic debate events and competitive debate. It has its roots in parliamentary procedure and develops differently in different countries as a result.
A notable example was in Lima in 2003, where the teams from Argentina and Peru gave a demonstration debate in Spanish (but in the World Schools style) in the Congress of Peru chamber. Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic , the championship which was due to be held in Mexico City in 2020 was switched to being an Online World Schools Debating ...
AWSDC adapts the World Schools Style debate format which is a combination of the British Parliamentary and Australia-Asian formats. All debates are carried out in English only. Each team consists of 3-5 debaters who each make 8-minute speeches either as side proposition or side opposition for or against a motion respectively.
The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure (TSC) Postpone temporarily, or table; Close debate; Limit or extend debate; Postpone to a certain time; Refer to committee; Amend; Demeter's Manual of Parliamentary Law and Procedure (Demeter) Lay on the table; Previous question; Limit or extend debate; Postpone to a definite time; Refer to a ...