BUYFOOD
Queensland’s thriving multicultural
community is refected in UQ’s wide
variety of on-campus food outlets. If
you have special dietary requirements,
International Student Advisors can
help you locate suitable food, including
kosher, halal, vegetarian and organic
produce.
At UQ St Lucia you can buy light snacks,
hot meals, Asian noodles, vegetarian
dishes, pizza, kebabs, burgers, barbecues,
sushi, sandwiches, cakes, and hot lunches
from the many food outlets on campus.
The campus has several UQU refectories
(cafeterias) which carry a range of certifed
and labelled organic, gluten-free, vegetarian,
and halal food products.
UQ Ipswich has a student bar, refectory,
and café. Club Med Café operates at UQ
Herston; and UQ Gatton has the Dining Hall,
a bar, and the Walkway Café.
DO SOME SHOPPING
UQ St Lucia has many shops, three
banks, several automatic teller or
banking machines (ATM), as well as a
post offce, pub, music store, pharmacy,
optometrist, print shop, hairdresser,
theatre and travel agent. Cafés and
grocery stores are a short walk or bus
ride away.
UQ Ipswich offers food outlets, an ATM and
a pharmacy, and is only a short distance
from shops in the Ipswich city centre.
UQ Gatton has an ATM, credit union, post
offce, bookshop, and food outlets, and also
hosts several Walkway markets each year
where local growers and suppliers sell their
products on campus.
DOYOURBANKING
ANZ
(St Lucia)
Bankmecu
(St Lucia and Gatton)
Bendigo Bank
(Ipswich ATM)
Commonwealth Bank
(St Lucia and Gatton ATM)
National Australia Bank
(ATM at St Lucia)
Suncorp-Metway Bank
(ATM at St Lucia)
Westpac Bank
(ATM at St Lucia)
FEEL SAFE
You can feel safe on UQ campuses with
our 24-hour security patrols and UniSafe
program.
UQ campuses are well lit and have security
call points in strategic locations: you can call
an emergency phone number any hour of
the day and a Security Offcer will respond
immediately.
Our UniSafe program offers:
– the UniSafe Escort service, at UQ St
Lucia, Ipswich and Gatton, where you
can ask for someone to accompany you
while walking to on-campus locations
– a Safety Bus service at UQ St Lucia (the
largest of the four campuses), which links
main buildings, colleges, carparks and
public transport stops.
UniSafe
LOOKAFTER
THEBASICS
BUYBOOKS
You will probably need to buy textbooks
and other equipment for your studies,
but you can also borrow books from the
UQ Library.
You can buy secondhand books and other
equipment, such as laboratory coats, at the
Secondhand Bookshop at UQ St Lucia or
the UQ Gatton bookshop.
The bookshops at the St Lucia, Ipswich,
and Gatton campuses stock new textbooks,
stationery and other materials.
The Herston Medical Bookshop stocks
textbooks, medical titles, medical equipment,
and a wide range of charts and models.
The Co-op Bookshop
UQ St Lucia phone +61 7 3365 8585
UQ Ipswich phone +61 7 3381 1240
UQ Gatton phone +61 7 5460 1451
UQ Herston Medical Bookshop
Phone +61 7 3365 5275
Secondhand Bookshop
UQ St Lucia phone +61 7 3377 2243
All UQ campuses offer
a range of venues in
which to eat, drink, meet
friends, and shop. See
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