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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...

Lands where no one can feel at home
Helen Hughes, Mark Hughes, Sara HudsonJune 25, 2011The Australian

Over the past 50 years, 20 per cent of Australia has been returned to Aborigines...

Indigenous private property rights ignored again
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesMay 27, 2011

In May 2010, the Commonwealth government released an Indigenous Economic Development Strategy discussion paper. Ninety-two...

The Fiji meeting would be a farce if it were funny
Helen HughesMarch 30, 2011The Canberra Times

The Prime Minister (unelected) of Fiji, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama has succeeded in attracting the leaders...

Fat cats feed on needy
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesMarch 23, 2011The Australian

The 2010 Indigenous Expenditure Report confirms indigenous disadvantage is not a result of insufficient government...

Money well spent?
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesMarch 11, 2011

The newly released 2010 Indigenous Expenditure Report confirms that Indigenous disadvantage is not the result...

Protecting bad teachers produces chronic failure
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesMarch 9, 2011The Australian

Take two schools in very remote Australia, 20km apart: in 2009, the indigenous school received...

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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