Human Rights

Donovan (Aff.) started it off. He read an interesting speech, with constant reference to sources, and invoked that happy hunting ground of debaters, the United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights. People had free right of worship, therefore they could have their own religious schools provided that these were not subversive, of sufficient size ("we can't have a yogi school"), and conformed to a minimum qualification. Dawick (neg.) argued that religion historically is not the responsibility of the State. The idea that people should not be taxed for what they didn't use was fallacious, he said. "A lame man must still pay rates to keep the roads in repair." Roman Catholics could use the State schools if they wanted to. Their own were a privilege they had to pay for.