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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...

Pacific guests invited over our unemployed
Helen HughesAugust 21, 2008The Newcastle Herald

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

Fruit picking jobs for local aborigines or guest workers from the Pacific?
Helen HughesAugust 18, 2008The Courier Mail

Growers' struggles to get fruit and vegetables picked and processed have led the Australian Farmers’...

Governments are failing East Arnhem Land
Helen HughesJuly 26, 2008The Weekend Australian

Kevin Rudd’s ‘Community Cabinet Meeting’ in Yirrkala unfortunately did not tackle the failures of public...

The three ‘R’s of Northern Territory Indigenous education: responsibility, reform and ‘rithmetic
Helen HughesMay 6, 2008The Australian

Ms Scrymgour, the Northern Territory Minister for Education, is to be congratulated for taking responsibility...

Policy reform to close the gap between black and white
Helen HughesApril 15, 2008The Australian Financial Review

After some 200 years of discrimination, the basic principles that must inform policies that affect...

Failures in education policy are creating a lost generation
Helen HughesApril 7, 2008ABC News Online

The Northern Territory has known for more than a decade that Indigenous students are completing...

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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