Semper Floreat is the University of Queensland Union's free & independent student newspaper.
Jude Forrest discusses republicanism in Australia with the launch of the UQ Australian Republic Club and its efforts around education and the mobilisation of Australia. Change is coming. Twenty-three years after the failed 1999 referendum, we now have assistant Minister for the Republic Matt Thistlethwaite to oversee our transition from a constitutional monarchy to an […]
Continue ReadingWe are already seeing the effects of climate change. A Guardian analysis found that 71% of the 500 extreme weather events analysed were made likelier or intensified thanks to climate change. 12 of those, among which are the 2020 Siberian heatwave and the 2018 Northern Hemisphere and Japanese heatwaves, would be outright impossible without it.
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Vladimir Putin, having forced hundreds of thousands of dissidents to his regime out of the Russia and out of their jobs, having stacked up the bodies of tens of thousands of Ukrainians and his own soldiers for his delusion dreams of Russian imperial restoration, was one of the first to send his “deepest condolences” on this “heavy, irreparable loss”.
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As what some might call a “Marxist degenerate” myself, I was delighted to hear that the Courier Mail was getting hot under the collar about some left wing articles published by Semper Floreat. For the writers at the Mail to sit up and dust off the cheeto crust from their fingers to write a piece […]
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“Look, basically our position is: if you’re going to shoplift, just don’t get caught.”
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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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Indigenous people in Australia are the most incarcerated population in the world, making uparound 30% of the total prison population of Australia, but only 3% of the total population.Around half of all incarcerated children aged 10-17 are indigenous. This coincides with horrificinequality, caused by intergenerational poverty, institutional racism and state harassment – allproducts of the […]
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On May Day 1946, eight hundred aboriginal pastoral workers struck in the Pilbara, initiating the longest strike in Australian history up until that point. The demands of the strike were basic and laid bare their horrible conditions. They wanted equal wages with their white counterparts, as the men were either paid a fraction of the […]
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August the 14th 2022 marks the tenth International Memorial Day for the World War Two “comfort women”. The Friends for “Comfort Women” in Sydney (FCWS) with the help of Bill Crews Foundation and Uniting Church Ashfield, successfully hosted a commemoration event on the 7th of August 2022. It was 1991 August 14th when late Hak-Sun […]
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Tens of thousands in the US have hit the streets in recent days to condemn the decision of the Supreme Court to overturn Roe V Wade, the landmark decision that established abortion as a constitutional right. The challenge to Roe will trigger laws in 26 states to immediately ban abortion. The majority of women of […]
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