5 top tips to survive Student Elections
Today marks a sacred day, or at least a feared one by many ‘regular’ students. If you haven’t already seen them in their bright shirts and eagerness to hand you one of those be all or end all campaign leaflets, you must be living the high life at another campus. But listen up, as someone […]
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Book Review: A Gift from Darkness
By Penelope Webster I often find it difficult to become truly invested in reading certain novels. If the themes, topics or style of writing disinterests me I’ll barely reach halfway, close its pages and never pick it up again. However, never have I felt so perplexed and discomforted by the recounts of a young, Nigerian, […]
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Australia needs more climate scientists
By Akanksha Singh With 100 of 140 climate scientists made redundant by CSIRO after budget cuts, and more CSIRO and NCCARF funds axed under the 2017 federal budget, it seems Australia’s climate scientists are in hot water (pun fully intended). The 2017 Australian Climate Science Capability Review by the Australian Academy of Science concluded that […]
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Sugar City
By Akanksha Singh This is it. This is the end. Livy, the house, Mammy’s old Bible— everything’s gone. Every. Damned. Thing. I’ve never hated God or myself as much as I do now. Sheriff Walker puts a hand on my shoulder. He’s got that look in his eyes, the one that says ‘poor bastard.’ […]
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Get Generous
Stephanie Samios from UQ QPSA giving blood If you haven’t heard, there is a current shortage of O-negative blood, but why is this important? Because O-negative blood is known as the “universal” blood type, which can be transfused to almost any patient in need, but only 9 percent of the population has it. In […]
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September Music News
Cub Sport Brisbane’s love child and alt-pop quartet Cub Sport is releasing their highly anticipated second album, bats, which will be released on the 22nd of September. This album is a beautiful mixture of a deeply personal but heart-wrenching gospel & RnB-inspired pop tune. “In 2015 I went on a writing trip to LA and London – it […]
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Changing consumer habits to adapt to the plastic bag ban
By Lauren Grimshaw Each year, Australians use 3.92 billion plastic bags and an estimated 3.76 billion bags are disposed of in landfill sites throughout Australia. With the recent release of the ABC series War on Waste, these statistics have gained a great deal of attention. Within the last few months, enormous pressure from environmental […]
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War, what is it good for? Not Guam
On the night of the 11th of August, I was talking with friends about how Guam might not be there tomorrow. It was a weird thought, would this be my 9/11 or Diana? It obviously wasn’t, but it nearly felt like it. However, this hypothetical question of what happens if you decide to blow up […]
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Is your* sunscreen destroying coral reef environments?
By Akanksha Singh Sure, the title sounds click-baity, but it’s entirely possible. Don’t get me wrong, sun protection is important— especially if you live in a place where the ozone layer has a “moderate” sized hole (plot-twist: it’s not Australia). Regardless, ozone depletion is a global concern, and so is skin cancer. According to […]
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101 Things you can spend $122m on instead of a postal plebisite
So the Marriage Equality debate is well and truly underway and we have seen some rather unexpected (read: highly expected) turn of events. But here we are about to spend $122 million but I would like to think about some of the other things we could have spent it on. Yes, this is overkill but […]
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