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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...

Why Guestworker Scheme is ‘Uneconomic’
Helen Hughes, Gaurav SodhiNovember 1, 2006Islands Business

Dr Wadan Narsey (Islands Business October 2006) insulted Australia by implying that its unwillingness to...

Funding for indigenous communities still not finding targets
Helen HughesOctober 20, 2006The Canberra Times

The funding intended to help Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders does not reach most of...

Why is Northern Queensland Calling for Fruit Pickers from the Pacific Islands?
Helen HughesOctober 12, 2006The Courier Mail

Last week the Cairns Post drew attention to the failure of backpackers to follow their...

The causes of upheavals in the Solomon Islands
Helen HughesSeptember 15, 2006The Australian

Trouble in Timor Leste (one million) and the Solomons (450,000) is not coincidental, It has...

Aid for growth only hope for a Pacific solution
Helen HughesMay 1, 2006The Australian

The emphasis on growth in Alexander Downer’s white paper is a victory in the struggle...

Speaking with spirits: Papua New Guinea’s logging free-for-all
Helen HughesApril 26, 2006The Canberra Times

In May 2005 Papua New Guinea refused a $23 million World Bank loan designed to...

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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