An e-petition started on the 15th of February by Esther Vale and sponsored by Michael Berkman, the Greens MP for Maiwar, has seen remarkably large number of signatures with it being one of the fastest growing active e-petition on the QLD parliament website. The e-petition seeks to recognise LGBT+ people in the Birth, Deaths and […]
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These past few semesters have been very different from the norm with the coronavirus pandemic leading to all UQ courses being offered via flexible delivery, and most students taking their courses online, at least in part. While a large section of the general workforce has transitioned to working from home, people have raised the point […]
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In response to the anonymous love letters I have received enquiring about my sexuality. Performance in accordance with sexualities entails the fulfilment of the requisite coordinates on a multiplexed system which consists of: consent, in its primacy; actions, of one or more minds; objects such as bodies; immediate contexts or settings; broader narratives; and, any […]
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Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back – Evolution (2019) directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and Motonori Sakakibara is a remake of the first Pokémon film ever released Pokémon: The First Movie – Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998). The story begins with the creation of Mewtwo, an artificial Pokémon which is a modified clone of the Pokémon Mew. This article […]
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UQ Life has distanced themselves from multi-level marketing brand Younique. A link to the company’s website was found in a post on the UQ Life Facebook page this morning, but a manager has since requested that the link be removed. “UQ Life was in no formal or informal arrangement or received any money,” the manager […]
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This story originally appeared in our fifth edition, published in May. I’ve gotten more letters than I can count which are all basically the same. “I want to date, but I don’t want to put any effort in”. Sure they don’t phrase it like that, but that’s the gist. Put it this way, reader, last […]
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This story originally appeared in our third edition, published in March. UQ’s original student society faces financial problems if Union Council doesn’t rule in their favour this month, their members claim. Along with the UQ Debating Society, Underground Productions was a founding group behind UQ’s student union. But a century later, the Society is now […]
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We asked two members of the UQ Debating Society to give us some considered arguments on whether to move Australia Day. The Semper editors would accept thoughtful responses to these arguments to appear in the first print edition. Message us on facebook, or email us at semper@uqu.com.au. The Case for Moving Words: Joshua Taylor Let’s start […]
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Today marks a sacred day, or at least a feared one by many ‘regular’ students. If you haven’t already seen them in their bright shirts and eagerness to hand you one of those be all or end all campaign leaflets, you must be living the high life at another campus. But listen up, as someone […]
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By Penelope Webster I often find it difficult to become truly invested in reading certain novels. If the themes, topics or style of writing disinterests me I’ll barely reach halfway, close its pages and never pick it up again. However, never have I felt so perplexed and discomforted by the recounts of a young, Nigerian, […]
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