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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5TH Of AUGUST 2025 RALLY SPEECH

Asalam Alaikum everyone, may peace be upon you all today. My name is Shahzaib Farhan. I’m a member of BDS Youth Meanjin, and I stand here today as a student, a witness, and a human being grieving a genocide. Since October 2023, we’ve watched Israel’s colonial legacy subject Palestinian’s to an active genocide, a project […]

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A very brief history of the Disability Collective: Where it began and where it is now 

Content warning: This piece includes mentions of ableism and derogatory terms for disabled people.  If you’ve been involved with the UQ Union at all, you may have heard of the UQU Disability Collective. As stated on the Union’s website, the collective is a branch of the union, ‘concerned with the advocacy, support and social connectedness […]

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My Recommendations for Autistic and Neurodivergent Students at UQ (As an Autistic Student Myself)

Whether you’ve just started at UQ or you’re a continuing student looking for ideas, I’ve got you. Starting at UQ as an autistic/neurodivergent student is pretty difficult – while it’s started to improve in recent years, the path is still cloudy and a lot of the help available is hidden behind hours of research. Now […]

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Gatton’s Wildlife Photography

As a wildlife biology student, I find that often the best learning of the natural world may be found not in books or classrooms, but with the wildlife one wishes to study. I formerly documented the wildlife of Victoria and Malaysia whenever I returned on expeditions. Now in a master’s degree, I find myself relocated […]

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From Gaza to UQ

Semper Floreat was invited to attend the screening of the Oscar-winning documentary on May 12th ‘No Other Land’ held by the Towards International Medical Equity Club (TIME).  Following the screening of the film, a Q&A session took place with Dr Bushra Othman and Dr Ahmad Abou Sweid. Dr Bushra had risked their life to volunteer […]

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POEM: Eulogy of Old Carden

When I think of you, I think of the poem ‘Simplify Me When I’m Dead’ by Keith Douglas, specifically the lines, “Thus when in a year collapse particular memories, you may deduce, from the long pain I bore the opinions I held, who was my foe and what I left, even my appearance but incidents […]

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Queer Fest Recap

Queer Fest was a massive festival with a ring of 55+ stalls, food trucks, a stage, and plenty of areas to kick back and chill. It was an explosion of queer creativity and community, with all types of creatives represented behind stalls and on stage. Artist stalls were loosely grouped by discipline and this grouping […]

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Candlelight Concert Success at UQ

I had the pleasure of attending the UQ Union International Collective’s Candlelight Concert on the 3rd of June. The advertisement for the event outlined a night of music and candlelight underneath the stars out at the Amphitheatre on the UQ lakes. However, I was informed by the organisers that, due to the cooler-than-expected evening, the […]

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