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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...

Faulty index poor guide to real benefits
Helen HughesMay 20, 2003The Australian Financial Review

Measuring a country's commitment to aid and development can be a flawed process. Two American...

Way out for poor little rich island
Helen HughesApril 8, 2003The Australian

Nauru – an island of 22sq km, lying near the Equator, thousands of kilometres from...

Lies and statistics
Helen HughesNovember 4, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Surjit Bhalla's book Imagine There's No Country has created a furore in Washington by convincingly...

PNG in need for much more than money
Helen HughesAugust 14, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Papua New Guinea has become a dysfunctional state.  Per capita income is falling, public services...

The poor need trade, not aid
Helen HughesJune 22, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Australia is not alone in its 'asylum seeker' problems. 'Asylum seekers' are putting pressures on...

Poor Approach to the Economy: Claims that poverty is growing in Australia are built on shifting sands
Helen HughesJune 17, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Does Australia have an increasing poverty problem or not? The Centre for Independent Studies' Policy...

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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