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Resources Guide - A Grade
This Resource Guide is designed to help you get started when preparing for your debates. There are two parts to the Resource Guide. The first is a set of questions that invite you to consider the scope of the debate and which direct you to some issues that may be important. The second is a small list of resources available on the internet that you may find useful when you begin your research.

The Resource Guide is not a substitute for proper preparation, and its aim is simply to help you prepare your own case. You should not structure your case around the questions asked, nor should you rely too heavily only on the articles to which we provide links. Adjudicators are not asked to read the Resource Guide, so any ideas that it gives you will need to be explained just like any other material.
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A Grade

1. That the government should pay compensation to the Stolen Generations

Questions:
  • Who are the Stolen Generations?
  • What is the government’s role?
  • What kind of compensation?
  • What do we give compensation for?
  • What would the effects of compensation be?
  • Will it improve the situation for these people?

Resources:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/11/2159032.htm

 

http://www.law4u.com.au/lil/ls_stolen.html

 

http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v7n4/buti74_text.html

 

http://www.eniar.org/stolengenerations.html

 

2. That environmental groups should commit violent acts in pursuit of their aims

Questions:

  • Which groups are we talking about?
  • Why do they turn to violence?
  • What is the role of the law?
  • Would these acts break the law?
  • What would the effects of these acts be?
  • Is there an alternative?

 

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0926/p01s01-ussc.html

 

http://www.interenvironment.org/wd1intro/aboutorgs.htm

 

http://www.csmonitor.com/1998/1026/102698.us.us.2.html

 

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2004/01/15/oregon/news02.txt

 

http://www.mindfully.org/Heritage/2003/Violence-Extreme-Protest6sep03.htm

 

http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=489&catID=4