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This is your captain speaking; please find your way to the nearest evacuation exits, as they will lead you to the lifeboats. I regret to inform you ladies and gentlemen that, the mateship has sunk. Yes, the mateship has sunk. Good evening chairperson, timekeeper, adjudicators, ladies and gentlemen and of course the opposition. My name is Ashwini Dhanapathy and I am the first speaker for the affirmative team. The topic for this evening's debate is that mateship is a thing of the past. My team and I define the topic as such: Mateship - as the popularised theory that originated in Australia (mostly among WWI troops, and was considered to be a form of expressing equality or mutuality with one another. Please note that mateship is NOT the same as friendship; it is essentially depicting a frontier value and is strongly encapsulating the ideals of friendship, self-sacrifice and selflessness, equality,...

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