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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...

Land rights must come first
Helen HughesNovember 26, 2010Spectator Australia

‘The difference between a black man and a white man is this: when a white...

Ownership would transform Aboriginal towns
Helen HughesNovember 24, 2010The Canberra Times

Indigenous living standards in remote townships and outstations continue to lag badly despite positive changes...

Private property will save a culture, not destroy it
Helen HughesNovember 19, 2010

Australians are fed up. Despite expenditure of vast taxpayer funds – some $5 billion annually...

Home ownership key to ending dysfunction
Helen HughesNovember 17, 2010The Australian

Indigenously owned and controlled lands comprise nearly 20 per cent of Australia. This is equivalent...

Helen Hughes opens her diary
Helen HughesJuly 31, 2010The Spectator (Australia)

The time we take to fly from Sydney to have dinner with Noel Pearson on...

What a difference a decade doesn’t make to the lives of Pacific Islanders
Helen HughesJune 12, 2010The Australian

Ten years after the UN pledged to address poverty and poor health and education levels...

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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