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Helen Hughes

Helen Hughes AO 1928 – 2013

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Should Australia and New Zealand Open Their Doors to Guest Workers From the Pacific? Costs and Benefits
Helen HughesSeptember 4, 2006PM72

Should Australia and New Zealand depart from their long term immigration policies to provide work...

Annals of Aid: Vanuatu and The United States Millenium Challenge Corporation
Helen HughesApril 5, 2006IA69

Vanuatu, with a population of 200,000, is a medium sized Pacific state that became independent...

The Economics of Indigenous Deprivation and Proposals for Reform
Helen HughesSeptember 23, 2005IA63

The 450,000 Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders who make up Australia’s Indigenous population fall...

Papua New Guinea’s Choice: A Tale of Two Nations
Helen HughesMay 31, 2005IA58

Even these small beginnings invited a vigorous opposition. For police supplementing their pay by consorting...

A New Deal for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in Remote Communities
Helen Hughes, Jenness WarinMarch 1, 2005IA54

Since the 1970s Australia has been conducting a socialist experiment in remote communities with the...

The Pacific is Viable!
Helen HughesDecember 2, 2004IA53

All is quiet in the Pacific. The past year has seen no coups or new...

US aid group throws Vanuatu’s privileged political elite a lifeline
Helen HughesMarch 7, 2006The Canberra Times

Vanuatu (population 200,000) has been generously supported by aid in cash and technical assistance since...

Policies entrench poverty
Helen HughesSeptember 23, 2005The Australian

More than 200,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders have become integrated into mainstream Australian life,...

Pacific aid policy must indeed be based on facts
Helen HughesAugust 11, 2005The Canberra Times

Australia is the leading aid donor in the Pacific, taking its responsibility to its neighbours...

Time for real economics to cure Africa’s plight
Helen HughesJune 29, 2005The Dominion Post

Bob Geldof is not only hoping for a large attendance at his Live 8 concert...

Rockers deaf to aid realities
Helen HughesJune 28, 2005The Australian

It is 20 years since Bob Geldof organised the Live Aid concerts to feed the...

Economic malaise in PNG is deep, and growing steadily
Helen HughesJune 6, 2005The Canberra Times

The recent ruling by the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court that the immunity essential for...

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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