UQU Club Grants to be spent exclusively on booze at Reddo over next few days
Semper Floreat is currently looking at an $18k underspend. Drinks anyone?
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MAX MOK AND THE DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE
When Max fled Hong Kong, aided by Foreign Correspondent, he had “enough for two months’ rent” and thus worked in construction sites, cafes, and would even have “cleaned lobster from the laps of Chinese billionaires”, because he felt lucky to have escaped and did not want to let that go to waste.
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An interview with UQ Postgraduate Senator Richard Lee
While many of us were distracted by the brutality of UQU’s on-campus #stupol campaigns, UQ tried & failed to run its own election, via email, for the 35th Senate. Four days in, the returning officer postponed the election. Billie reached out to one of our current UQ Senators for a chat.
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The winners and losers of UQ Giving Day
On October 20, 2021, UQ Alumni hosted their annual UQ Giving Day a day encouraging alumni, staff, students, community members, and everyone in between to donate to a variety of causes throughout UQ. For many causes the big draw is that the university will match any donation made to the cause’s fund. A standout performer […]
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Opinion: University and TAFE the targets of Federal Budget
The federal budget handed down in May was full of many glaring failures. Including no investment in renewable energy, but instead money being poured into hydrogen production hubs (which themselves are not green if they are not powered by renewable energy) and developing ‘low’ emissions technology. The irony being, what the purpose is of tackling […]
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Drastic changes proposed for QUT’s top governing body
On September 1 the Queensland education Minister, Grace Grace, proposed an amendment to the Queensland University of Technology Act – the legislation that governs QUT – that would see the university’s top governing body reduced in size. Under the proposed amendment, the QUT Council, which is the university’s top governing body, would be reduced from […]
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Opinion: Lift the blockade
Starting on the 11th of July this year, Cuba has been rocked by protests, either for or against the government. Those demanding change are concerned about the shortages of food and medicine, exacerbated by the catastrophic affects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country. As a country that relies heavily on tourist dollars to keep […]
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UQ Union calls election for mid-October
The University of Queensland Union (UQU) Secretary posted on September 8, notice of the 2021 UQU elections. Nominations will be open from September 13 to September 17, with the elections to take place from October 11-15. Semper Floreat will be holding a presidential debate night in the week before the election period and encourage all […]
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The students fighting the flu
An average of 2740.2 Queenslanders were admitted to intensive care units each year between 2015 and 2019 for the flu, now a group of current and former UQ students is working to help reduce the risk to some of the state’s most vulnerable. The VacSeen Project is an initiative started and led by UQ medical […]
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Opinion: OnlyFans is good for the economy, when done right
Over the last few years, OnlyFans has provided innovators in the sex work industry a new way for them to create a brand for themselves and reap the rewards that come with that. But when the company announced that they would no longer be allowing content creators to post sexually explicit material on the platform […]
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