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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...

NAPLAN tests show the Indigenous gap
Helen HughesMay 11, 2010The Newcastle Herald

National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) 2010 tests start today. The test results and...

Moving targets are failing Indigenous students
Helen HughesApril 30, 2010

'The realistic timeframe that should be considered to achieve outcomes for Indigenous people equal to...

Education fails indigenous kids
Helen HughesApril 29, 2010The Australian

Australia has to improve its education constantly, performing better from year to year in international...

Indigenous students from welfare-dependent families perform poorly
Helen HughesApril 10, 2010Adelaide Now

Although only some 30,000 out of the 540,000 Australians who identify as Aboriginal or Torres...

Hard facts hit home on Indigenous jobs
Helen HughesMarch 9, 2010The Newcastle Herald

Although remote indigenous communities in the far north have the worst living standards in Australia,...

Indigenous Australians denied employment by inept policies
Helen HughesMarch 5, 2010

Emeritus Professor Helen Hughes is a Senior Research Fellow at The Centre for Independent studies....

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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