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Tim Martyn gets up close and personal on the campaign trail
Tim Martyn is currently undertaking a Masters of Science in Development Studies at the London School of Economics. He has just spent three months working on a development project in western province Kenya.
Adolescent boys of Western Kenya's Bukusu tribe are ushered to the threshold of manhood by participating in rituals in which they must endure all without exhibiting pain. Western society lacks procedures in which boys can transform and emotionally re-emerge, ready to carry the burden of male responsibility.
While Australia enjoys its lowest official unemployment rate in 28 years, it’s time to reflect upon the true level of labour-market exclusion and prospects for the unemployed and working poor.
Young people have become increasingly wary of the hard sell, especially when pitched by the major political parties.
The transition from school to work or study is harder now than it has been since the recession "we had to have" in 1990.
Tim Martyn reviews Amin Saikal’s Islam and the West: Conflict or Co-operation.