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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...

Only harsh medicine can save Nauru
Helen HughesAugust 31, 2004The Courier Mail

Nauru is an isolated 21 sq km Pacific island, more than 3,500 kms from Brisbane....

Sick phosphate island in need of a remedy
Helen HughesAugust 20, 2004The Courier Mail

Nauru is a 21 sq kms island near the equator, more than 3,000 kms from...

Only internal reform can rescue a stagnant PNG
Helen HughesJuly 15, 2004The Canberra Times

PAPUA New Guinea's GDP growth, with good weather and high mineral export prices, is still...

An end to benign neglect
Helen HughesJuly 15, 2004The Australian

INCREASING aid to Papua New Guinea to more than $425 million for 2004-05 will enable...

Pacific states stagnate
Helen HughesJuly 1, 2004

Nearly all the Southwest Pacific islands have recorded another year of per capita income decline...

Game of Pacific cop and dodgers
Helen HughesJuly 1, 2003The Australian

The Howard Government's decision to help the Solomons by restoring civil order to the South...

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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