Page 2637 - Week 07 - Thursday, 1 August 2019
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In our first debate we were discussing whether or not we should privatise the ABC.
My team was debating that the ABC should be privatised which is where I learnt a valuable lesson about the importance of having an opposition and the importance of challenging things even if you agree with them.
We lost our debate as we had trouble communicating our ideas and stopping our speeches from contradicting each other.
In our second debate we were arguing against gender quotas in parliament.
In this debate my team won because we were just asking questions meaning we didn’t have to prove our side, we just had to disprove theirs.
Their argument fell apart rather quickly which is why we won.
After I did the debating, I decided to reach out to Suzanne Orr’s office and ask how I could volunteer as a 13-year-old. They replied by inviting me in for a half day in her office and including me in her volunteer team, however due to my shyness and anxiety I haven’t done any volunteering yet.
On the 17th of July I went into Suzanne Orr’s office for a half day.
The day started with everyone showing me what they do and a team meeting.
I understood almost nothing in the team meeting.
After the Team Meeting, I was asked to come up with a list of 10 suggestions for avoiding plastic during Plastic Free July.
After about an hour and four suggestions down I was taken on a tour by the education officer.
We started the tour in the ministerial wing where we looked at the Nara room which I learnt is one of the cities that Canberra is twinned with.
We finished walking through the ministerial wing looking at all the artwork along the way. After this we went down to the opposition wing and looked through there.
On leaving the opposition wing, we went downstairs into the chamber where I learnt that the Legislative Assembly has a press gallery. I discovered what’s behind all the black windows, what the buttons on the desks do and what the job of the clerk is.
After this we went into the committee rooms where I learnt what committees do.
We finished the tour and went back to Suzanne Orr’s office where I worked on further suggestions for Plastic Free July. After lunch I finished up the list of suggestions for Plastic Free July and began working on a speech about what I learnt which took me to the end of the half-day.
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