The New Financial Year: At a Glance
By Sam Collins With the new financial year upon us and a brand-new government, it’s as good an opportunity as ever to have a look at your own finances, and what some recent changes will mean for you and those…
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A Mosaic of Obviousness: Henry Hamlet’s Heart by Rhiannon Wilde
Review by Ashton Darracott Set in one (pick any) of Brisbane’s suburbs, grade 12 student Henry, feet dangling over the edge of the rest of his life, falls in love with his best friend, Len. Post-drunken dare at a house…
What Lurks Beneath: The Imitator Book Review
By Danielle Aylward The noisy clatter of typists’ heels charging up and down the shiny marble floor perforated the balsawood partition wall like gunfire… This description is one example of the eloquent prose I came to adore in Rebecca Starford’s…
Atonement And Assimilation: A review of Andrew Pippos’ novel Lucky’s
Andrew Pippos’ Lucky’s: A Review By Rebekah Roma He still had time to make changes. Not to his nickname, which he could never shake, and not to his appearance, and there was little prospect of changing the flaws…
Review of ‘You Can Change the World: The Kids’ Guide to a Better Future’
by Jackson Machado-Nunes There is no bigger green flag than caring about the environment, but Lucy Bell’s You Can Change the World misses the big picture, and loses out on being a text that successfully contributes to change on…
Labor’s Transphobia Problem
Content Warning: The following article discusses Transphobia. By Amy Sargeant Many political parties in the West are struggling with transphobia in their ranks. The Greens, despite having fantastic policies on offer for trans and gender diverse people, are…
The 2022 Floods: A Cruel Reminder of the Climate Crisis
By Maggie Mackenzie (she/her) This article was first published by One Woman Project. Almost four weeks ago, my family and I had to evacuate our home, as the flood waters around Southeast Queensland began to rise. As a precaution, we…
Trans Day Of Visibility – On Trans Joy
I realised I was trans because of a dream I had about Robert Downey Jr. Of course, “realising you’re trans” is a complicated, lifelong process which I would argue has no end. My favourite response to the question ‘have you…
#DeleteSpotify was about more than just deleting an app
By Lilian Martin Picture this. Two almost 20-year-old women in a tiny blue car, windows wound down because if the aircon was on, the engine would barely have enough power to lurch the car around a corner. The Bluetooth is…
An Open Letter from the QUT Student Guild Women’s Officer
#Breakthebias Being a woman can be disheartening. I always thought that when I got to university, I would be fearless – that I wouldn’t let myself be undermined, that I would be strong. But in my very first…
