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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...

Land rights must come first
Helen HughesNovember 26, 2010Spectator Australia

‘The difference between a black man and a white man is this: when a white...

Ownership would transform Aboriginal towns
Helen HughesNovember 24, 2010The Canberra Times

Indigenous living standards in remote townships and outstations continue to lag badly despite positive changes...

Private property will save a culture, not destroy it
Helen HughesNovember 19, 2010

Australians are fed up. Despite expenditure of vast taxpayer funds – some $5 billion annually...

Home ownership key to ending dysfunction
Helen HughesNovember 17, 2010The Australian

Indigenously owned and controlled lands comprise nearly 20 per cent of Australia. This is equivalent...

Helen Hughes opens her diary
Helen HughesJuly 31, 2010The Spectator (Australia)

The time we take to fly from Sydney to have dinner with Noel Pearson on...

What a difference a decade doesn’t make to the lives of Pacific Islanders
Helen HughesJune 12, 2010The Australian

Ten years after the UN pledged to address poverty and poor health and education levels...

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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