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I wanted to give a quick shout-out to Empire Times<\/em><\/a>, the student magazine at Flinders.<\/p>\n As a staff member, I\u2019m not the intended audience but that hasn\u2019t stopped me from thoroughly enjoying it on my bus rides:<\/p>\n What I like about it is that the content is bold, expressive and unapologestic, ranging from quirky to politically charged, absurd to deeply thoughtful.<\/p>\n When you spend much of your time producing mild, informative (hopefully) content, as I often do, you can forget what it\u2019s like to simply enjoy reading something. You also forget what it\u2019s like to use language playfully.<\/p>\n A lot of what I write is for health promotion and in the past for peer-reviewed publication. Add AI into the mix – as I often do to help develop content more efficiently – and what you end up with is clear and useful but sometimes stripped of flavour. The personality of your writing gets diluted in the name of clarity, consistency, or speed.<\/p>\n So it’s been refreshing to sit with a publication where the words have edges. Where the voice of the writer isn’t polished smoothly into oblivion. Probably part of the reason I enjoy working with creative writers too. (That’s a post for another day.)<\/p>\n It\u2019s also reminded me of something:<\/p>\n You don\u2019t always realise how good something is until you\u2019ve moved past the phase when it was meant for you. I studied at Flinders myself, and I\u2019m pretty sure I didn\u2019t engage with the magazine at the time, and I know I lost out as a result. I would likely have had something to contribute, given that was a more creative time in my life. That\u2019s hindsight for you.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udf93 So, if you’re a current student\u2014don’t make the same mistake I did.<\/strong><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcbb Visit the website<\/a> Empire Times is a bold, playful, and thought-provoking student read – perfect for the bus, better with hindsight [I originally posted this in 2025, but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":6520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,71,11340],"tags":[20349,20350,20351,19621,20347,18215,20352,20353,20348,20323],"class_list":["post-6518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flinders-services-and-programs","category-recommended-reading","category-student-led","tag-bold-content","tag-bus-reading","tag-campus-culture","tag-creative-writing","tag-empire-times","tag-flinders-university","tag-hindsight","tag-staff-perspective","tag-student-magazine","tag-student-voice"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2025\/06\/issue-1-1024x596.png\")
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\n\ud83d\udcda See a copy lying around (you’ll find plenty at FUSA)<\/em>
\ud83d\udc49 Grab it.
\ud83d\ude8c Read it on the bus or on a bench or during lectures
\u267b\ufe0f Recycle it.
\u270d\ufe0f And if you\u2019re particularly inspired\u2026 consider contributing<\/a> something yourself.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2025\/06\/man-on-bus-reading-empire-times.png\")
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