NTEU1001: Introduction to Campus Strikes
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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UQ: Brisbane’s Worst Landlord
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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UQU and UQ Life’s Lunar New Year Event: A Success in Cultural Representation
“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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The Suppression of Expression: Exposing the Political State of South Korean Democracy
“If citizens – even as young as high school students – are being punished for having a voice and for having an opinion, then South Koreas democratic values are in grave danger”
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THE HAN SUPREMACY
Han Supremacy, also frequently known as Han Chinese or Chinese nationalism, as well as Han Chauvinism, is loosely understood as the ethnocentric ideology to glorify the pure Han blood tie and the Han culture. Introduction: Han Supremacy, also frequently known as Han Chinese or Chinese nationalism, as well as Han Chauvinism, is loosely understood as […]
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Painting. Hope.
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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It’s Time
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 ReadingLabor’s climate bill is an exercise in greenwashing
We 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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Goodbye to the Queen of nothing, really
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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The subtle art of seizing the means of production
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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