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Martin Fabinyi Martin Fabinyi (Founding Editor)
H I S T O R Y
It was a time of revolution, and of change, and even though the brilliant light of the 60s began to slowly dim Empire Times has kept the flame burning and remains alive and well to today.
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House mates in the suburb of Parkside, the two pushed through a grudging approval from the Student Rep
Empire Times emerged soon after, and at ten cents a copy it was a steal. Articles ranging from an insider’s view of Satanism to the breaking of the Crimes Act by urging students not to register for conscription galvanized the student body, and when we mastered colour printing the newspaper ran posters of Mick Jagger, and spreads on obscenity and the dangers of gonorrhea. We ran beat poetry, a “how to” buy acid on campus and interviews with luminaries such as Stanley Kubrick and members of the Black Panther party. The “personality cult” as the staff liked to facetiously call themselves, included Greig Pickhaver, the 1970 editor-to-be Martin Armiger, poet Adrian Rawlins and many, many others.
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efore Don Dunstan’s pink shorts electrified the nation, a new university in the southern suburbs of Adelaide was already readying its students to become an influential bunch of alumni. Drawn to the innovative Drama course steered by the legendary Professor Wal Cherry were among many others Greig Pickhaver (H.G. Nelson), composer Martin Armiger, musician Doc Neeson, former Head of ABC Television Kim Dalton, TV presenter Basia Bonkowski and a whole lot more. What Flinders didn’t have yet was a student newspaper – Adelaide had On Dit; Melbourne had Farrago; Sydney had Honi Soit. So in 1969 science student Rod Boswell and drama student (student being a definite antonym) Martin Fabinyi took things into their hands literally and created Empire Times.
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Council and bought a printing press which was then installed in their back room. Suddenly the household was an editorial office, a printing factory, and a distribution centre. Faboz Print was born.
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