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A scholar newspaper at Australia’s University of Queensland is defending a controversial short article that provided shoplifting guidelines to income-strapped learners. 

The piece, "The Delicate Art of Shoplifting," was published in the student newspaper Semper Floreat on Saturday. 

FILE: Pedestrians walk past a Woolworths supermarket on George Street on August 24, 2022, in Sydney, Australia. 

FILE: Pedestrians walk past a Woolworths supermarket on George Road on August 24, 2022, in Sydney, Australia.  (Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

In the piece, the nameless author recommended readers on "frifting," or "totally free browsing." As explained by the writer, frifting is "a legit action for the working course to acquire in ongoing course war." 

Ideas included putting on a mask and masking identifiable markers like piercings and tattoos. Frifters are suggested to go to whichever self-serve machine is closest to the personnel checking them and get off the steel tags. 

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As noted by Nine News, public officials immediately condemned the short article. Queensland Education and learning Minister Grace Grace said it ought to be withdrawn. Shadow Schooling Minister Christian Rowan reported encouraging men and women to dedicate legal offenses would lead to anarchy. 

But the newspaper has refused to back again down. Editor-in-chief  William Kugelman wrote an op-ed expressing that Semper Floreat stands by its "decision to publish the hypothetical safe shoplifting information." 

"More and more, people are pressured into impoverishment and homelessness, even though the ruling course, governments, and firms, take pleasure in the fruits of the doing the job class’ stolen labor," he wrote. 

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The entry involved a reaction from the nameless writer, stating: "We’re in a housing disaster, going through the highest expense of residing and most affordable wages premiums given that WW2, and but the wealthiest keep (getting) wealthier – forcing persons to live in tents, consolidating their monopolies on housing, starving men and women on stagnant stages of centrelink assistance and insufficient minimum wages."