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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...

Nose cut off to spite the face
Helen HughesMay 31, 2005The Courier Mail

The withdrawal of the Australian police, following the Papua New Guinean Supreme Court ruling that...

New deal for communities
Helen HughesMarch 1, 2005The Courier Mail

Third World unemployment, welfare dependence, housing, ill health and violence in remote communities contrast starkly...

Coombs’ tragic legacy
Helen HughesMarch 1, 2005The Australian Financial Review

In reviewing the Community Development Employment Program the federal government has hopefully taken a first...

More aid is no solution for Islands
Helen HughesDecember 29, 2004The New Zealand Herald

Australians and New Zealanders pride themselves on giving the Pacific a helping hand. Yet the...

Ripples of change surfacing in a stagnant Pacific
Helen HughesDecember 2, 2004The Sydney Morning Herald

Income has barely grown faster than population in the Pacific for the 30th consecutive year,...

Fortune lost to betrayal
Helen HughesOctober 22, 2004The Australian

THE older ones among you will remember my first arrival in Nauru in 1963 after...

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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