THE STATE OF
EMP IRE RY O T S I AH R U O Y OF NT E D U ST MAG Words by Tahlia Dilberovic Special thanks to Nix Herriot for their assistance in the research behind this piece and the provision of transcripts of interviews with past editors Ian Yates and Andrew McHugh
Attending Flinders University is a political choice, or at least it was in the 1970s. Isolated from the bustle of the city, the small university, established in 1966, attracted those who believed education could be done differently. Central to its establishment was the question of who education truly served – the people?
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Or government and big business? It was this radical spirit infiltrated every part of the student experience at Flinders. It made us the stronghold of the student anti-conscription movement, and it was present when we took the registry building. This legacy has not yet ebbed from our cultural memory, but it is beginning to.
