Category: Campus

The University of Adelaide has announced that Professor Peter Hoj, AC will be its new Vice-Chancellor. Professor Hoj served as UQ’s Vice-Chancellor from 2012 to 2020. For Professor Hoj, it is a return to the University that appointed him a Professor of Viticulture (winegrowing) in 1995, and where he continued to work until 2004, when […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Courier Mail has today embarked on a total rerun of a 2018 article regarding whether UQ has a university-wide policy for gender-neutral language in assignments. The University had no such policy in 2018, and continues to not have one to this day. In 2018, the policy — which lives its entire life rent-free in […]

University of Queensland Senator Drew Pavlou has walked out of a hearing that was considering his expulsion this morning. Senator Pavlou’s legal representative, Tony Morris QC, explained to press that the Board would not release documents that he considered essential to Pavlou’s defence. “I called for the documents which under the Charter for this body, […]

The writers for long-running serial drama The University of Queensland have announced in an email this evening that Deborah Terry will play the lead role of Vice-Chancellor in 2020, the first time a woman has played the role. The news follows the announcement that Danish-born actor, Peter Høj would be retiring from the role next […]

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 […]

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 […]