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By El Bancroft [Originally published in the February Issue, 18th of February 2026] On December 16, 2025, I published a zine titled Why You Need to be More Anti-Gen AI, and some of the information I provided there, I will include here. Generative AI has been an issue that I’ve been passionate about for a while now, and it still […]
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[Originally published in the February Issue, 18th of February 2026] As sports fans, there comes a point where we have to justify our love for the colours we bear every week. Whilst at a gathering, in a group chat, or over a drink, people will often tell me that they “don’t get” why I care […]
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Debuting on Friday, November 28th, the TV show ‘Heated Rivalry’ took the world by storm, but it’s not just the success of the TV show and the viewing numbers that have made this debut special. There have been incredible flow-on effects from the success of ‘Heated Rivalry’, including the original book series authors’ access to […]
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Craig Silvey, a 43-year-old Australian novelist who has written multiple novels, as well as children’s novels, was arrested from his Fremantle home on Monday the 12th of January and has faced court after he allegedly distributed child exploitation material. Detectives arrested the father of three young daughters when they executed a search warrant on his […]
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By Moran A new year has dawned and with it on the breeze have come a new batch of first-years, fresh to the halls of this glorious institution and unknowing of its associated traditions. In order to assist these young’uns on their journey, I have noted down some key advice to clear the path for them. Click […]
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Student submission by Emma McCarthy, member of Students for Palestine and Socialist Alternative Since the Bondi terrorist attack in December last year, the right has taken it as an opportunity to overload the media with smears and derisions against the Palestine solidarity movement. Antisemitism Envoy Jilian Segal, for example, has told Sky News that there […]
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Not long after Charlie Kirk, a far-right conservative media personality, was assassinated at Utah Valley University, an event was posted onto UQ Stalkerspace advertising a vigil here on campus. Like many others, I left a comment on that event that noted the harm he caused throughout his life, and refused to mourn his death. I […]
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Generative AI has been a hot topic, with many conversations about how it is impacting different communities. A recent example is the generators that power the supercomputers (named Colossus) that train Grok, Twitter’s AI bot, and how they’re slowly poisoning a small, historically Black community in South Memphis, Tennessee called Boxtown. What is happening in […]
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When I was younger, I connected to writing and reading more than to speech. Despite loving to socialise, at times speaking was more tiring than rewarding. This sparked my desire to learn Auslan. It came from curiosity of how it would be to speak a language that was visual-spatial rather than verbal. Returning to UQ […]
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The Brisbane Metro has many things: a whimsical theme tune. A hefty price tag. A cooler cousin. What it does not have, I’ve personally discovered, is a reliably pleasant, accessible experience. In my younger and more innocent days upon the first rollout of the Metro last year, when I (an ambulatory wheelchair user) still had […]
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