BUYFOOD
Queensland’s thriving multicultural
community is reflected in UQ’s wide
variety of on-campus food outlets.
At UQ St Lucia you can buy light snacks,
hot meals, Asian noodles, vegetarian dishes,
pizza, pasta, kebabs, burgers, barbecues,
sushi, sandwiches and rolls, cakes, lollies,
and hot lunches from the many food outlets
on campus.
The campus has several UQU refectories
(cafeterias) that carry a range of certified and
labelled organic, gluten-free, vegetarian and
halal food products; and there are numerous
coffee shops and coffee carts.
UQ Ipswich has a licensed café. Club
Med Café operates at UQ Herston, along
with Royal Brisbane Hospital cafés and
Subway; and UQ Gatton has a club, Dining
Hall and the Walkway Café.
DOYOURBANKING
ANZ
(St Lucia)
Bank of Queensland
(Herston ATM)
Bankmecu
(St Lucia)
Commonwealth Bank
(St Lucia and Gatton ATM,
Herston Bank)
National Australia Bank
(St Lucia ATM)
(If you have a card with China Union Pay access
you can withdraw funds from any NAB ATM)
Suncorp-Metway Bank
(St Lucia and
Herston ATM)
Westpac Bank
(St Lucia and Herston ATM)
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 Texts & Stationery
UQ St Lucia phone +61 7 3377 2204
FEEL SAFE
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 Officer 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 to public
transport or your carpark during darkness
– preferred pedestrian paths during
darkness
– 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
DO SOME SHOPPING
UQ St Lucia has many shops, three
banks, several automatic teller or
banking machines (ATMs), as well as a
post office, pub, music store, pharmacy,
optometrist, print shop, hairdresser,
theatre, and travel agent.
The Wednesday markets offer a range
of handcrafted and other items for sale,
including gifts and fashion. Cafés and grocery
stores are a short walk or bus ride away.
UQ Ipswich offers a food outlet, and is
only a short distance from shops in the
Ipswich city centre.
UQ Herston has access to Royal Brisbane
Hospital shops, including food outlets,
ATMs, post office, newsagent, gift shop and
pharmacy; and is only three kilometres from
the Brisbane central business district.
UQ Gatton has an ATM, post office,
bookshop, and food outlets, and also
hosts several Walkway markets each year
where local growers and suppliers sell their
products on campus.
ORGANISE
ESSENTIALS
CHILDCARE
You can find childcare, kindergarten,
and after-school care facilities (all
independently operated) on or near all
UQ campuses.
Please note that free childcare is not
available and all centres have long waiting
lists. Unfortunately, priority is not given to
children of UQ students. Contact centres
directly (see table below) to ask about
vacancies.
For a list of childcare centres across
Queensland go to
au/child-care/qld
and
.
Resources for parents and carers
-
carers
CHILDCARE CENTRES
AGE
WEB/EMAIL
PHONE
UQ ST LUCIA
Campus Kindergarten
2.5-5 yrs
Web
Email
+61 7 3365 3894
Margaret Cribb Childcare Centre 2 mths-5 yrs Email
+61 7 3365 1509
Munro Centre
6 wks-3 yrs Email
+61 7 3365 2840
Playhouse Childcare Centre
6 wks-5 yrs Email
+61 7 3377 2231
UQ IPSWICH
Children’s Choice Early Education
Centre
(also before and after school
care and vacation care)
15 mths-5 yrs Email
+61 7 3812 3147
Good Start Churchill
6 wks-5 yrs Email
+61 7 3812 8000
Raceview Community Early
Childhood Centre
6 wks-6 yrs Email
+61 7 3288 8772
Village Kids Children’s Centre
6 wks-5 yrs Email
+61 7 3810 0700
UQ GATTON
Free Range Kids
6 wks-12 yrs Web
Email
+61 7 5460 1080
Gatton Child Care Centre
6 wks-12 yrs Email
+61 7 5462 2946
Gatton Early Learning and
Pre-school Centre
6 wks-6 yrs Email
+61 7 5462 4455
UQ HERSTON
Kelvin Grove Community
Childhood Centre
6 wks-5 yrs Web
Email
+61 7 3252 5059
Herston First Steps
Child Care Centre
6 wks-5 yrs Web
Email
+61 7 3216 0944
International
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