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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...

Lands where no one can feel at home
Helen Hughes, Mark Hughes, Sara HudsonJune 25, 2011The Australian

Over the past 50 years, 20 per cent of Australia has been returned to Aborigines...

Indigenous private property rights ignored again
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesMay 27, 2011

In May 2010, the Commonwealth government released an Indigenous Economic Development Strategy discussion paper. Ninety-two...

The Fiji meeting would be a farce if it were funny
Helen HughesMarch 30, 2011The Canberra Times

The Prime Minister (unelected) of Fiji, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama has succeeded in attracting the leaders...

Fat cats feed on needy
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesMarch 23, 2011The Australian

The 2010 Indigenous Expenditure Report confirms indigenous disadvantage is not a result of insufficient government...

Money well spent?
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesMarch 11, 2011

The newly released 2010 Indigenous Expenditure Report confirms that Indigenous disadvantage is not the result...

Protecting bad teachers produces chronic failure
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesMarch 9, 2011The Australian

Take two schools in very remote Australia, 20km apart: in 2009, the indigenous school received...

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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