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Heartbroken to see the trees in front of the Sir Samuel Griffith Building removed, PhD student Sebastian Bernal-Garcia has launched a petition demanding for answers. “I started a petition because I felt helpless,” Mr Bernal-Garcia said. The petition titled Stop, Reconsider, Build Together: Protect Griffith’s Remnant Forest demands for work to stop on the site,…
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Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay The Democratic Party wins a midterm election plagued by scandals from a Republican administration while an unpopular war rages on during an economic crisis. This describes both the elections of 1974 and 2026. In 1974, the United States was in the middle of an economic crisis known as stagflation, characterised…
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By Matthew Mazzier Bautista for the Griffith Journal 7 September 2026 Title photo by Matthew Chirico The Griffith Dragons’ season has ended in heartbreak following their Grand Final loss to the UniSC Spartans this past Thursday. The thrilling fixture wasn’t decided until the final minutes with the two competition heavyweights trading blows on the grand…
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The Griffith Dragons are preparing well as they gear up for the 2026 URLQ Grand Final this Thursday night. After a thumping 32-12 victory last Wednesday against the QUT Trouts, the minor premiers booked their place in the final against UniSC Spartans. The Spartans didn’t have it quite as easy as the Dragons, but in…
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The Democratic Party has won the 2026 United States midterm elections. The Democrats have retaken control of the United States Senate and House of Representatives in the middle of Donald Trump’s second term as President. As of writing this, the Democrats have picked up an additional 42 seats in the House and 7 seats in…
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Twenty people have put their hand up for the Student Representative Council (SRC) Board at this year’s election, which will see board members appointed to a two-year term across 2027 and 2028. Four seats are up for grabs on the nine-member board; five members were chosen last year and will be retained for 2027. …
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GRIFFITH University students have protested the funding cuts to courses and staff. Before Trimester 1, 2025, the university restructured the Bachelor of Arts, increasing core courses from 2 to 10 and removing all minors, citing budget constraints. Griffith University’s 2024 annual report recorded a $21.8 million budget surplus. An online petition by the Student Representative…
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THE Labor Party has won the 2025 Australian Federal Election in a landslide. As of now, Labor has won 93 seats in the House of Representatives, the Liberal-National Coalition has won 40 seats, 12 seats have gone to minor parties and independents, while 5 remain in doubt. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has become the first…
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By Riley O’Leary for The Griffith Journal May 10 2025 The Griffith Dragons have lost 16 points to 10 against the UQ Hounds in a tightly fought contest on Wednesday night. In front of an energetic crowd at the Nathan Fields, a gritty defensive effort wasn’t quite enough for the Dragons to take home the…
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Do we actually choose anything freely—or are we just watching decisions bubble up from our brains and pretending we’re in charge? The question of free will isn’t just philosophical fluff. It underpins everything from our criminal justice system to religion, morality, and personal responsibility. Yet science has increasingly thrown doubt on the idea that we…
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By Riley O’Leary for the Griffith Journal 26 April 2025 The Griffith Dragons have gone down to the QUT Trouts 40 points to 26 in a tightly contested affair, during the opening round of the Universities Rugby League Queensland Competition. A big crowd was there to see the Dragons play as part of an ANZAC…
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Four years after his death, composer Alvin Lucier is producing new music. Inside a gallery in Perth, Western Australia, a clump of Lucier’s brain cells—grown in a lab and suspended on a 64-electrode mesh—fires bursts of electrical activity. Those signals trigger mechanical mallets, which strike brass plates and other resonant surfaces, filling the room with…
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By Riley O’Leary for the Griffith Journal 26 April 2025 The 2025 Federal Election is set to be one of the closest in a long while, taking place on May 3, 2025. This election will all 150 seats in the House of Representatives (down from 151)contested, as well as 40 of the 76 seats for…
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There has been a belief for a while now—that AI isn’t actually real AI. ChatGPT and similar tools are basically just fancy search engines. They analyze vast amounts of data, interpret patterns, and generate responses. They can mimic intelligence, yes, but they don’t have consciousness. And honestly, that fact was strangely comforting, even if it made…
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In my last piece, I wrote about the rise of organoid intelligence—tiny brain-like structures grown from stem cells that can learn, adapt, and interact with virtual environments. They’re not just mimicking intelligence. They’re developing it in a way that looks eerily familiar to ours. But while the science is fascinating, there’s a darker side to…
