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Helen Hughes

Helen Hughes AO 1928 – 2013

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Indigenous Employment, Unemployment and Labour Force Participation: Facts for Evidence Based Policies
Helen HughesFebruary 10, 2010PM107

More than 300,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders—60% of those identifying as Indigenous—are in the...

Revisiting Indigenous Education
Helen HughesApril 9, 2009PM94

Literacy and numeracy of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in remote Australia have not improved...

The Bipolar Pacific
Helen HughesAugust 21, 2008IA98

Australians have become accustomed to bad news from the Pacific islands. Conflict in the Solomon...

Indigenous Education in the Northern Territory
Helen HughesApril 7, 2008PM83

The causes of failing education — inequitable school facilities, inappropriate curriculums, and inadequate teaching —...

Kava and after in the Nhulunbuy (Gulf of Carpenteria) Hinterland
Helen HughesOctober 8, 2007IA88

Worldwide, people strive to educate their children, to work, to own or rent a decent...

Lands of Shame: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ‘Homelands’ in Transition
Helen HughesJune 30, 2007SP09

Some 90,000 of Australia’s 500,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders live appallingly deprived lives in...

Native titles in private housing
Helen HughesOctober 26, 2007The Canberra Times

The 2006 Census suggests that some 295,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders – perhaps 45,000...

Life after kava needs education, real jobs
Helen HughesOctober 14, 2007The Sunday Territorian

As part of the Northern Territory ‘emergency intervention’, the Australian Government announced a ban on...

Aboriginal artists in the remote ‘homelands’ downtrodden by too much aid
Helen HughesSeptember 19, 2007The Canberra Times

The answer is that most Aboriginal artists in the remote ''homelands'' have been denied even...

Extend a hand to an absent friend
Helen HughesSeptember 4, 2007The Australian

Although Sydney loves a party and gave world winners for the 2000 Olympics and the...

South Australia’s homelands have only a small proportion of Australia’s 500,000 Aborigines…
Helen HughesJune 2, 2007The Adelaide Advertiser

South Australian "homelands" have only a very small proportion of Australia's 500,000 Aborigines, but they...

Our state of disgrace
Helen HughesMay 31, 2007The Courier Mail

Queensland, with a quarter of Australia's Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, has some of their...

Submission to Remote Participation and Employment Servicing Arrangements
Helen Hughes, Mark Hughes, Sara HudsonOctober 11, 2011

The Discussion Paper’s focus on participation and employment in remote Indigenous communities is welcome because...

Submission to Indigenous Home Ownership Issues Paper 2010
Helen Hughes, Sara HudsonDecember 15, 2010

Part 1 of this submission shows that incorrect data and lack of analysis on Indigenous...

Submission to Native Title Leading Practice Agreements Discussion Paper 2010
Helen Hughes, Mark Hughes, Sara HudsonNovember 30, 2010

The Native Title process is only one of the processes returning land to traditional owners....

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