Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back – Evolution (2019) directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and Motonori Sakakibara is a remake of the first Pokémon film ever released Pokémon: The First Movie – Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998). The story begins with the creation of Mewtwo, an artificial Pokémon which is a modified clone of the Pokémon Mew. This article […]
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UQ Life has distanced themselves from multi-level marketing brand Younique. A link to the company’s website was found in a post on the UQ Life Facebook page this morning, but a manager has since requested that the link be removed. “UQ Life was in no formal or informal arrangement or received any money,” the manager […]
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This story originally appeared in our fifth edition, published in May. I’ve gotten more letters than I can count which are all basically the same. “I want to date, but I don’t want to put any effort in”. Sure they don’t phrase it like that, but that’s the gist. Put it this way, reader, last […]
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This story originally appeared in our third edition, published in March. UQ’s original student society faces financial problems if Union Council doesn’t rule in their favour this month, their members claim. Along with the UQ Debating Society, Underground Productions was a founding group behind UQ’s student union. But a century later, the Society is now […]
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We asked two members of the UQ Debating Society to give us some considered arguments on whether to move Australia Day. The Semper editors would accept thoughtful responses to these arguments to appear in the first print edition. Message us on facebook, or email us at semper@uqu.com.au. The Case for Moving Words: Joshua Taylor Let’s start […]
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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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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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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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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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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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