Welcome back to Glass Magazine’s coverage of the Guild Student Representative Council (SRC) meetings for 2025. This is our coverage of the meeting held on the 6th of November, 2025, at the Gardens Point campus.
We cover these meetings throughout the year to provide insight into the goings-on in your SRC. These meetings include the motions that Guild Executives and other students put forward for the SRC to vote on, which will directly impact your university experience.
All current students are welcome to attend SRC meetings. If you want to see change on campus, we encourage you to put forward a motion to the SRC.
COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
You can find a link to the minutes of the meeting on this page once published.
You can also access the meeting agenda and documents associated with motions raised at the meeting in this folder.
AND WE’RE OFF
The November 2025 meeting of the QUT Guild SRC commenced at 6:09pm, chaired by Michael Pendergast.
A roll call confirmed attendance of the following officers:
President: Emme Muggleton (she/her)
Secretary: Sebastian Page (he/him)
Engagement Officer: Ojas Munjal (he/him)
Education Officer: Erin Milne (they/them)
Environmental Officer: Georgie Dobbs (she/her)
Women’s Officer: Samara Kyrtsanas (they/them)
Queer Officer: Lauren (Ren) Johnstone (she/her)
Disability Officer: Ethan Johnstone (he/him)
Engineering Faculty Councillor: Michael Pendergast (he/him)
Business and Law Councillor: Caleb McGiffin (he/him)
Business and Law Councillor: Yuanyi Tham (she/her)
Health Faculty Councillor: Felix Park Weir (he/him)
CIESJ Faculty Councillor: Isabella Foley (she/her)
CIESJ Faculty Councillor: Elowyn Gampe (she/her)
Welfare Officer, Steven H Wu (he/him) and Postgrad Officer, Maskeen Kaur (she/her) joined online.
Treasurer; Gaurang Aggarwal (he/him), Clubs and Societies Officer; Nick Vile (he/him), and Science Faculty Councillor; Aditya Vyas (he/him) were absent from council.
UPDATES ON CASUAL VACANCIES
No vacancies were filled during this meeting. The positions of International Officer, First Nations Officer, Health Faculty Councillor, and Science Faculty Councillor remained vacant.
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
Only Motions without notice were moved during this meeting.
Condemn the reinstatement of the ban on gender-affirming healthcare for young people.
The first motion of the night, moved by Queer Officer Ren, called for the QUT Guild to publicly condemn the recent actions of the Queensland Health Minister who reinstated a ban on gender-affirming healthcare for young people, and push the minister to immediately reverse the directive that banned under-18s from receiving puberty blockers and stage-one/two treatments.
Ren’s criticisms stem from the fact that the Minister’s decision was previously deemed unlawful by the courts before he used his statutory powers to reinstate a similar ban.
“His initial directive did not follow the proper procedure; it had insufficient consultation and a lack of lawful authority.”
“This decision continues to deny young people access to evidence-based healthcare, which is recognised by major medical organisations in Australia and overseas as appropriate treatment for Gender Dysphoria.”
“Gender-affirming care is healthcare and should not be politicised.”
Felix Park Weir, Health Faculty councillor seconded the motion, agreeing with Ren and denouncing the Queensland Health Minister’s actions.
“This is an abuse of power by Tim Nicholls.”
“The ban never had anything to do with medical concerns. It is purely ideological.”
Elowyn Gampe, CIESJ Faculty Councillor, and Yuanyi Tham, Business and Law Faculty Councillor, spoke for the motion. Both called for the opposition of far-right oppression and bigotry in Australia.
The motion passed unanimously with Welfare Officer, Steven H Wu, and Postgrad Officer, Maskeen Kaur, abstaining from the vote.
Defend international student’s right to free speech.
Business and Law Faculty Councillor, Yuanyi Tham, moved the second motion without notice. The motion called for the QUT Guild to support the right of free speech and protest for international students in Australia, and to condemn the mainstream media’s attempts to intimidate international students.
This motion comes after Andrew Bolt, a conservative social and political pundit, wrote an article in the Herald Sun attacking Yuanyi for attending a rally against fascism and racism. Yuanyi explained that she was calling out right-wing media for using international students as a scapegoat while disseminating racist coverage.
Andrew Bolt doxxed Yuanyi, calling her ungrateful scum. From this, she has received threats across social media.
Elowyn Gampe, CIESJ Faculty Councillor, seconded the motion saying:
“It has become unavoidable that there is a massive increase in the presence of the far-right in Australian politics.”
“They feel so emboldened to attack; they are using an elected office holder as a scapegoat for their own culture wars.”
Ren, Queer Officer, agreed with the motion but questioned the motion point’s use, and proposed that it be amended to say that the guild would publicly condemn the article.
An amendment to the original motion was passed unanimously adding the point, The QUT Guild SRC will endorse future CARF rallies that organise students to fight racism.
CIESJ Councillor Isabella Foley, and Student Observer Laif Al Abri (he/him) both spoke for the motion.
The motion passed unanimously.
CLOSING TIME
That concludes Glass Magazine’s coverage of the November SRC meeting for 2025.
The meeting was closed at 6:53pm by the chair Michael Pendergast. This was the last SRC meeting for the year before the annual general meeting on Thursday the 13th of November. The next meeting will be in 2026 with the newly elected SRC. The date and location are yet to be decided.
