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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...

US aid group throws Vanuatu’s privileged political elite a lifeline
Helen HughesMarch 7, 2006The Canberra Times

Vanuatu (population 200,000) has been generously supported by aid in cash and technical assistance since...

Policies entrench poverty
Helen HughesSeptember 23, 2005The Australian

More than 200,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders have become integrated into mainstream Australian life,...

Pacific aid policy must indeed be based on facts
Helen HughesAugust 11, 2005The Canberra Times

Australia is the leading aid donor in the Pacific, taking its responsibility to its neighbours...

Time for real economics to cure Africa’s plight
Helen HughesJune 29, 2005The Dominion Post

Bob Geldof is not only hoping for a large attendance at his Live 8 concert...

Rockers deaf to aid realities
Helen HughesJune 28, 2005The Australian

It is 20 years since Bob Geldof organised the Live Aid concerts to feed the...

Economic malaise in PNG is deep, and growing steadily
Helen HughesJune 6, 2005The Canberra Times

The recent ruling by the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court that the immunity essential for...

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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