The Labor-backed ‘Empower’ ticket will not appear above the line on 2019 election ballots, the University of Queensland Union’s Electoral Tribunal has ruled today. The electoral group had originally nominated under the name ‘Together’ after the split of the incumbent Focus ticket. It would have marked the first time since 2017 that students from Labor’s […]
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The University of Queensland has potentially broken federal legislation to renovate a room and provide a leadership course using a fund reserved for student clubs and other non-academic services and amenities. The Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF) must be spent in one of nineteen specific categories, and decisions must be made in formal consultation […]
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Protesters from two different groups have today covered walls at the University of Queensland’s main refectory with pro-democracy and pro-Beijing messages. Hong Kong students began putting up a Lennon Wall outside the Student Services building around 1:15pm today. The University soon asked the group to move away from the Student Services building. This comes two […]
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The University of Queensland’s Academic Board has voted to endorse the creation of a new major in Western Civilisation in 2020. The vote makes UQ’s Academic Board the first in the country to approve the Ramsay Centre’s proposed curriculum. Although the University of Wollongong has approved a Ramsay Centre degree, the university management bypassed its […]
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Semper editor Raphael Wixted told us in this year’s second edition that he had tried to register a dodgeball team in UQ’s social sport using two team names “Peter Døj and the Vice Chancellors” and “I showed you my Døjballs please respond”. We’re not saying this is an outrageously funny joke. But what we also […]
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One committee at the University of Queensland has overridden the decision of another to bring the proposed major in Western Civilisation one step closer to implementation. The approval takes place one week after votes opposing the Ramsay Centre were made at both a Humanities and Social Sciences Board of Studies meeting and a general meeting […]
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Professor Peter Høj AC will step down as the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Queensland in June next year after nearly eight years in the top job. Professor Høj made the announcement at a Senate meeting this Thursday, confirming rumours that have been circulating since the start of the year. Under Vice-Chancellor Høj’s […]
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This Wednesday night, the University of Queensland Union is holding a Student General Meeting. You’ve probably seen the signs and you’re wondering: “What the H is an SGM?” Semper is here to answer that for you. This General Meeting will consider two questions. Firstly, whether or not a new Schonell Theatre should be run by […]
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Content Warning: This article includes a graphic poem about sexual assault. St John’s College within the University of Queensland has today announced that it will be appointing as its Warden the former Master of St Mark’s College in Adelaide, a college which has previously been lambasted by the media for sexual assaults and racism. Rose […]
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The recent reappearance of the Schonell Theatre in news headlines seemed to present an unmissable opportunity for us to wax lyrical about the building, and to remind readers why it’s important that performing arts stays in student hands. When UQ students built the Schonell Theatre in 1970, Queensland was two years into what would become […]
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