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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...

School litany of shame
Helen HughesDecember 14, 2008

With the May 2009 national literacy and numeracy tests only six months away, it is...

Numbers don’t go remotely to issue
Helen HughesNovember 28, 2008The Australian

The news that the Australian Bureau of Statistics has found the 17 year gap in...

The Northern Territory’s performance in national literacy and numeracy testing
Helen HughesSeptember 17, 2008The Australian

When we drew attention to the failures of Northern Territory schooling in April this year,...

Guest workers and the Northern Territory
Helen HughesSeptember 14, 2008The Sunday Territorian

To Australia’s embarrassment, by not tackling the problems that prevent Aborigines picking the fruit that...

Major General Jeffrey and aborigines in the open society
Helen HughesSeptember 8, 2008The Australian

Major General Jeffery is to be congratulated for drawing attention, on his last day as...

Good policy better than guest work for neighbours
Helen HughesAugust 21, 2008The Canberra Times

The announcement that Australia is inaugurating a ‘guest worker’ scheme for Pacific islanders to pick...

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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