History
The conference began in 1991 as a one day meeting of students from universities around Sydney. Eventually QC expanded to its current format of a one-week national conference.
A challenge to the conference occurred in 2001 in Newcastle, when a political dispute caused the conference floor to split. Many of the delegates left the conference, and formed their own conference in a bar down the street.
The University of Wollongong were the 2010 hosts, defeating the Cross Campus Queer Network Western Australia 62-60 in the second round of voting after Monash Clayton was eliminated in the first round.
At Wollongong in 2010 the NUS Queer Officers were censured by the conference floor, this censure was to be read aloud at the next NUS conference floor however in a breach of their constitutional duty they have elected not to do so. NUS also failed to pass a motion restricting the NUS Queer Officer position to candidates who are queer.
At the 2012 conference, it was determined that a collection of Sydney area universities would host the 2013 event. The Sydney universities were chosen in favour of a bid from Brisbane, who had also bided the previous year.
| Year | Host | Theme |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | University of Sydney | |
| 1992 | University of Technology Sydney | |
| 1993 | University of Sydney | |
| 1994 | University of Queensland, Brisbane | |
| 1995 | University of Melbourne | Heresy |
| 1996 | University of Western Australia, Perth | Queer as FUCK |
| 1997 | Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane | Volatile |
| 1998 | University of Tasmania, Hobart | Emerge |
| 1999 | University of Adelaide | OUT - Raging |
| 2000 | Charles Sturt University, Bathurst | Camping Out West |
| 2001 | University of Newcastle (NSW) | The future is queer to me now |
| 2002 | Australian National University University of Canberra |
Queery Oppression |
| 2003 | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University of Melbourne Swinburne University of Technology |
Validate Here |
| 2004 | Queensland University of Technology Griffith University, Brisbane |
Yes it's fuckin' political |
| 2005 | University of Western Australia, Perth | {Queer}ying Gender |
| 2006 | University of Sydney | Terror Alert: Rainbow |
| 2007 | University of Tasmania | Alphabet Soup: the A-Z of queer diversity in the 21st century |
| 2008 | Cross-Campus Queer Network (Victoria) Host Campus: University of Melbourne |
Freedoms are won - not given |
| 2009 | Australian National University, University of Canberra |
Deceit of Government |
| 2010 | University of Wollongong | Defending Our Unions |
| 2011 | Curtin University | Building a Queerious Community |
| 2012 | Flinders University Queer Society (FUQS) Host Campus: Flinders University |
Queermageddon: The End of Queerphobia |
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