"He will not compromise this by prematurely running a debate in the media," Entsch's spokesman said.
Interests Theatre, reading, politics, runs a debating society for home-educated children.
For the past two years, I've run a debating team for 11-year-olds where we've talked about issues like fox-hunting and have visited parliament.
And yet, in a country where 400,000 women are sexually assaulted every year, a popular daytime television program ran a debate last month asking whether men pinching women's bottoms was actually just "a bit of fun".
Even the staid old Jewish Chronicle ran a debate: "Is it racist to set aside Israeli land for Jews only?" Yet this is part of a wider debate about the "demographic problem", which is shorthand for there being too many Arabs.
Disney-who owns ABC- get better cartoon characters to run a debate.
This debate may be used for years in journalism classes, on how to not run a debate.
On Thursday 23 April, the Guardian is running a live debate on devolution, hosted by Rick Edwards.
On Monday 27 April, the Guardian is running a live debate on immigration, hosted by Rick Edwards.
Television channels got in on the act too, with one rolling news station running a live debate entitled 'Sack stars, save India' with the strap-lines 'Why these non-performers must go' and 'They've shamed India'.
