d soft drink company Lemon and Paeroa have announced today their planned expansion into the Australian hard drink market, and yours truly was invited to their headquarters to sample some of the new drinks soon to be available in their cabinet.
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Yeats’ ‘Easter 1916’ poem addresses the rising, and it vacillates between admiration for the rebels and criticism of Britain’s response, in particular reckoning that everything now is different: “All changed, changed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born”. Note the oxymoron: Yeats writes in another poem “Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone”. He thus questions whether the deaths were needless, as England might have granted Ireland its freedom without the rebellion.
Continue ReadingSomething sinister lurks in the slimy, primordial UQ lakes. Strange bubbling, churning water and unexplained disappearances of students have caused alarm ever since the lakes were created. We investigate what ominous presence could be behind these events and why the university administration insists on covering it up. The UQ lakes were originally formed by damming […]
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Many of you would have noticed a strange trend occurring on various social media platforms in the last few days, which involves the use of emoji 🅿️. Whether you’ve seen this on a group chat, tweets or Instagram meme page comment sections, the new P meme is taking up a storm.
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I was filthy shit at coding, and I soon regretted my enrolment. Having failed my first assignment, I decided it would be best to drop the course before suffering academic penalty. Months remained, in the summer semester, and my parents were convinced I was still enrolled; each day I would get out of bed later, go to uni later, and come back home later. Guilt built up inside me.
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On planet Hollywood, star power governs all. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, and the other famed and acclaimed, are to this extent suitable castings. They’re also altogether conventionally attractive, and share some chemistry; in the case of Lady Jessica and her son Paul Atreides, though, this borders royally on the oedipal.
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The Sempaaa editorial team is proud to announce its support for the proposed principalities of UQ’s St Lucia and satellite campuses.
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Semper Floreat is currently looking at an $18k underspend. Drinks anyone?
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University of Queensland Chancellor and noted demi-god Peter Varghese, AO has today raised a single finger in the direction of Drew Pavlou, causing the mere mortal to fly across the room like a ragdoll. Mr Varghese, who has been head of the University of Queensland since leaving his role as Secretary of the Department of […]
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The University of Queensland will be considering the Ramsay Centre’s pro-Western Civilization degree, according to an email to UQ staff from Vice Chancellor Professor Peter Høj this Monday. The email refers to an earlier discussion between UQ and the Ramsay Centre that took place at the end of last year. “With 2018 coming to a […]
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Semper Floreat would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands which comprise so-called Australia.
Sovereignty was never ceded, and we are - each of us - responsible for the ongoing dispossession, violence, and segregation in Meanjinn (Brisbane), and everywhere else, as concerns the racism which is levelled against indigenous peoples.
We commit to platforming indigenous voices, stopping racism, and working towards meaningful reconciliation and tangible reparations.
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