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UQ leadership to appear before parliamentary inquiry

It was announced on March 16 that top executives from The University of Queensland including Chancellor Peter Varghese will front the Parliamentary Inquiry into national security risks affecting the Australian higher education and research sector. Set to appear before the inquiry via video conference at 12:45pm on Friday March 19, Chancellor Varghese will be joined by […]

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UQ, the Union, and You

During most people’s introduction to university the UQ administration is their friend, and the student union is their smaller, much poorer friend. Over time however, if they pay attention, students will typically come to a more complete (and cynical) understanding of the various players in the petty power games that underlie the corporate side of […]

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Facebook hides Semper content

On February 18 Australian students visiting the Semper Floreat Facebook page discovered a lack of content as Facebook blocked Australian’s from viewing news on Facebook in response to the Australian Government’s attempts to force tech companies to pay publishers for news that appears in people’s feeds. However the ban has not limited to news organizations […]

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Greater Brisbane to go into lockdown

From 6pm on Friday January 8 to 6pm on Monday January 11, people living in Brisbane, Logan, Ipswich, Moreton, and Redlands council areas will be required to stay home, as the Greater Brisbane area goes into lockdown. The lockdown comes after a cleaner at quarantine hotel tested positive to a highly infectious strain of coronavirus […]

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UQ Appoints Student Affairs Employee to SSAF Governance Review

In a beautiful end to this editor’s administration, the University has today announced in an all-student email that a review of the governance of the Student Services and Amenities Fee is due to be conducted this December. We have previously reported on the University’s failure to comply with legislation that requires regular consultation with the […]

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Meet the UQ physics student who’s made a breakthrough in time travel research

Germain Tobar is an Honours student in physics at the University of Queensland. This year, the Classical and Quantum Gravity journal has published a paper of his which describes the possibility of paradox-free time travel in our universe. Germain says that the discovery is a shift from previous research which maintained that avoiding paradoxes meant […]

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