You’re In It! – National Union of Students
Your Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF) is currently being used to fund the National Union of Students (NUS)! You’re in it, even if you don’t know it! Throughout this article, I will answer why you should care about the NUS. Who are they? The NUS is the representative body for tertiary education students in […]
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Exploring Brisbane’s Necropolis: Toowong Cemetery Ghost Tours (The Other Side) REVIEW
‘On the edge of Brisbane, the largest city in Australia, spread over hills and steep slopes, are tens of thousands of gravestones, tombs and crypts. The cemetery is a true necropolis- literally a city of the dead.’ This sentence opens The Ghosts of Toowong Cemetery: Volume One by Jack Sim, a neat little book I […]
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Wild Horses at Risk of Slaughter
There are over 90,000 wild horses and burros in the United States of America, and right now, they’re at risk. In Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget, released on May 30th, it was revealed that the budget would slash Wild Horse Program Funding, eliminate the ban on slaughtering wild horses and burros and weaken transfer safeguards, […]
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The State Government Did What?!
Last year, during the 2024 Queensland elections Queensland voted to oust the Miles Labor government that had served Queenslanders since 2015 for the Liberal-National Party (LNP) led by Crisafulli. In late June, the LNP released their first budget since being elected to government. This article will highlight some of the things that the LNP have […]
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QLD Democracy- Don’t You Worry About That
Context Queensland has had a rocky history with its democratic system. Notoriously, Queensland used to be ruled by the iron fist of Premier Joh Bjelke-Peterson of the National Party. Despite only winning 27.88% of the popular vote in the 1974 Queensland State election the National Party was able to secure 47.56% of the seats. This […]
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POEM: Art Gallery Observations #16 : Mid-air 2003 – Sandra Selig
Little dots suspended in the air with wire- Is this the multiverse? If so, which one is ours? The section of strings without dots- Are those universes yet to be made? Shadows of dots on the wall- Are they the ghosts of dead universes? How long will it take for us to see their deaths? […]
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Lit Corner: Religious Fanfictions (Dante’s Divine Comedy and John Milton’s Paradise Lost)
Fanfiction is an integral part of any fandom, including the God fandom. For centuries, people have been writing literature and poetry inspired by their favourite book, the Bible, but do they count as fanfiction? In its simplest definition, fanfictions are stories created by fans about existing media. Typically, fanfiction authors use the same plot, lore, […]
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Labor has a pro-Israel problem
On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian political organisation Hamas, alongside other militant groups, launched an attack on Israel. This attack was preceded by decades of colonial violence and oppression that the Palestinian people had suffered at the hands of Israel. There were an estimated 1,195 casualties, with 815 of them being civilians, including 36 children. […]
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Genocide, inequality, war: it’s right to resist
The world is fucked up. Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues to rage on unchallenged by western leaders, ICE agents are operating as a virtual Gestapo in America as they abduct and deport anyone who dares to criticise the Trump regime, and far right rhetoric is seemingly on the rise everywhere we turn. If ever we […]
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From Gaza to UQ
Semper Floreat was invited to attend the screening of the Oscar-winning documentary on May 12th ‘No Other Land’ held by the Towards International Medical Equity Club (TIME). Following the screening of the film, a Q&A session took place with Dr Bushra Othman and Dr Ahmad Abou Sweid. Dr Bushra had risked their life to volunteer […]
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