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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...

Faulty index poor guide to real benefits
Helen HughesMay 20, 2003The Australian Financial Review

Measuring a country's commitment to aid and development can be a flawed process. Two American...

Way out for poor little rich island
Helen HughesApril 8, 2003The Australian

Nauru – an island of 22sq km, lying near the Equator, thousands of kilometres from...

Lies and statistics
Helen HughesNovember 4, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Surjit Bhalla's book Imagine There's No Country has created a furore in Washington by convincingly...

PNG in need for much more than money
Helen HughesAugust 14, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Papua New Guinea has become a dysfunctional state.  Per capita income is falling, public services...

The poor need trade, not aid
Helen HughesJune 22, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Australia is not alone in its 'asylum seeker' problems. 'Asylum seekers' are putting pressures on...

Poor Approach to the Economy: Claims that poverty is growing in Australia are built on shifting sands
Helen HughesJune 17, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Does Australia have an increasing poverty problem or not? The Centre for Independent Studies' Policy...

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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