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Helen Hughes

Helen Hughes AO 1928 – 2013

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From Riches to Rags What Are Nauru’s Options and How Can Australia Help?
Helen HughesAugust 18, 2004IA50

Thirty years after enjoying the world’s second highest per capita GDP after Saudi Arabia, Nauru...

Can Papua New Guinea Come Back From the Brink?
Helen HughesJuly 14, 2004IA49

After seven months of wrangling, arrangements have finally been agreed to cover the deployment of...

Aid Has Failed the Pacific
Helen HughesMay 7, 2003IA33

Per capita income has grown at less than 1% a year in the Pacific during...

Immigrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers : A Global View
Helen HughesJune 26, 2002PM54

A worldwide excess of demand for immigration means that Western countries cannot accommodate more than...

State of the Nation 2001: A Century of Change
Jennifer Buckingham OAM, Lucy Sullivan, Helen HughesApril 5, 2001SP04

The first edition of State of the Nation in 1997 showed in graphs and statistics,...

State of the Nation: Indicators of a Changing Australia 1999
Lucy Sullivan, Jennifer Buckingham OAM, Barry Maley, Helen HughesAugust 2, 1999SP02

The expanded and revised edition of State of the Nation: Indicators of a Changing Australia...

Northern Territory Indigenous Education
Helen HughesApril 7, 2008The Australian

The Northern Territory Department of Education reported in 2006-2007 that reading and numeracy Year 3,...

Pretend Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Northern Territory
Helen HughesMarch 3, 2008The Canberra Times

The Northern Territory Department of Education reports that only 20% of Indigenous students in remote...

Strangers in their own land – An extract
Helen HughesFebruary 27, 2008The Australian

Two teenager girls from East Arnhem Land undergo a ten-week educational marathon in Sydney with...

Tough love key to Nauru’s future
Helen HughesJanuary 22, 2008The Australian

The Rudd Government has an unparalleled opportunity to make a contribution to the evolution of...

Long-term welfare dependency is of no real benefit to recipients
Helen HughesJanuary 11, 2008The Australian

For a liberal, turning a share of welfare payments into vouchers for groceries and rent...

Indigenous housing
Helen HughesOctober 26, 2007

The 2006 Census suggests that some 295,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders – perhaps 45,000...

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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