Year 9/10 Fortians gives a fast and fashionable performance

On Tuesday the 28th of June 2022 the Fort Street Year 9/10 Debating Team debated against Newtown High School of Performing Arts in the second round of the Premier’s Debating Challenge for 2022.

Our topic was ‘that we should place a tax on fast fashion’ and we were the negative side. Our first speaker was Johnathan Bonnice, our second speaker was Gina Hong, our third speaker was Eleanor Alonso Love and our team advisor was Min Park. The debate was chaired by the always eloquent Galileo Lima.

All five members put their minds together and gave some outstanding arguments about how increasing tax to fast fashion will not resolve the climate change issue that waste from fast fashion is causing. Their debates and rebuttals overall presented some excellent insight into the problems that fast fashion is causing on our environment. They also delivered their speeches with grace and poise.

It was truly enlightening to watch these intelligent young people demonstrate such a profound and informed understanding of poor human habits that are harming our environment and propose realistic solutions that can still allow our society to pursue economic ambition and right to having artistic expression through clothing, whilst still protecting our most sacred entity: planet Earth.

Ms. Truong
Debating and Public Speaking Coordinator