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UQEC Environmental Heroes Series: Grace Beattie 

Grace Beattie is a UQ student in her final year of a Bachelor of Law/Arts majoring in  Psychology with a minor in Political Science. She is the president of the UQ Justice and Law Society. Next year she plans to commence her Masters of Environmental Law. So, what makes her an environmental hero today? Grace – alongside […]

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Unplugging the Dopamine Drip: How to Rewire Your Brain in a Noisy World 

You’re an addict, and so am I. Realising that finally allowed me to address my growing dependence on technology and the internet in everyday life, reclaiming my attention span and autonomy.   A dreary Monday afternoon, sitting in the Biological Science Library, I had an iced coffee at the ready, noise-cancelling headphones blocking out the surrounding […]

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TIME

Time. It truly is crazy. Time passes in the blink of an eye as families gather, children play, communities indulge in frivolous activities and delicious food. Yet some – for almost two years – have been deprived of those very special moments. Deprived of basic human rights. Time, it truly is crazy. Days turned into […]

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National student referendum to condemn the Labor government

In two months, the genocide in Gaza will mark its two-year anniversary. Two years of schools, hospitals, shelters and breadlines being bombed. Two years of starvation and displacement. Two years of Gaza being razed. Israel has shown no signs of stopping, with Netanyahu intending to totally occupy the Gaza Strip. Thanks to the complicity of […]

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POEM: Family Troubles

He came and left a rot inside her womb.   She lay there naked curled around her blight   that rotted till her famine would consume   the ridges dug inside her skin that night.   He told her he would build them both a home:   A kitchen with a cross above the door.   Then turned the bedroom to […]

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POEM: Warnings from the Sky

‘ Burned leaf on the rubble cries EVACU language disintegrating Warnings from the Sky’ is a Senryu written in response to an image I saw of the remnants of an evacuation leaflet dropped by Isreal in Gaza. There was nowhere to evacuate to. The leaflet was torn by bombs from the very people that sent […]

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