To the dear flustered first-years: welcome to UQ and all the new firsts. Your first time sitting in the wrong class; the first time having your lunch snaked by an ibis; and this past Wednesday, your first staff strike. I’m here with a bit of an explanation. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and associated […]
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There is a crisis in student housing. The cost of rent is skyrocketing across the country, and students are being forced to pay through the nose for cramped, unsanitary housing. The University of Queensland is using this crisis as an excuse to jack up the prices of their on-campus student accommodations. UQ RES at St […]
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“We come from all over the world, and we definitely miss home, so everyone should feel included. That’s why we’re doing these sorts of cultural events throughout the year”
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Just yesterday a wall mural was painted in front of the UQ Union’s women’s collective and international collective room. The artwork painted by Lily Ghali, a fine arts student, conveys deep bittersweet meaning. The Semper Floreat team was incredibly lucky and honoured to be able to attend the artist’s painting process and interview her to […]
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The Courier Mail (CM) is preparing a story, likely a beat up (let’s be honest), on Semper Floreat about two of the articles in our latest print edition. The University and the Student Union have been approached by a CM journalist describing our hypothetical guide to safe shoplifting and a story about police abolition as, […]
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The 1st of September will see staff at UQ strike for 24 hours, in protest of the administration’s ongoing refusal to come to the table on fair wage increases. This will also mark the beginning of what members are describing as “Strike-tember”.
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The UQ website has had links for Current Students hidden from the front page header, leaving only links for Future Students, Researchers, and Alumni. The change was first identified by Semper Floreat reader Jack Barton in a letter to the editor over the weekend. “With the new semester starting up, I was looking forward to […]
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Alan Smithee & Billie Kugelman UQ has sent out letters to students facing disciplinary action which claim that enforcing the Student Code of Conduct is more important than *checks notes* students’ human rights. The letters, apparently authored by so-called ‘Integrity Officers’, were sent with an offer: accepting the University’s proposed punishments would mean that students’ […]
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Whether it be an all-nighter for an exam the next day or doing all your referencing in APA before realizing it should have been MLA, here are some tools provided by UQ to help make the unending burden of student life just a little easier. UQ Library: Most students are already familiar with UQ Library […]
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As the sun set on the 7th day of strikes taken by the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) it was still looking unclear as to when and if they’d get a result. But as we have seen in the following days since their last strike on campus, a result was handed down in the darkness of […]
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