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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...

Why Guestworker Scheme is ‘Uneconomic’
Helen Hughes, Gaurav SodhiNovember 1, 2006Islands Business

Dr Wadan Narsey (Islands Business October 2006) insulted Australia by implying that its unwillingness to...

Funding for indigenous communities still not finding targets
Helen HughesOctober 20, 2006The Canberra Times

The funding intended to help Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders does not reach most of...

Why is Northern Queensland Calling for Fruit Pickers from the Pacific Islands?
Helen HughesOctober 12, 2006The Courier Mail

Last week the Cairns Post drew attention to the failure of backpackers to follow their...

The causes of upheavals in the Solomon Islands
Helen HughesSeptember 15, 2006The Australian

Trouble in Timor Leste (one million) and the Solomons (450,000) is not coincidental, It has...

Aid for growth only hope for a Pacific solution
Helen HughesMay 1, 2006The Australian

The emphasis on growth in Alexander Downer’s white paper is a victory in the struggle...

Speaking with spirits: Papua New Guinea’s logging free-for-all
Helen HughesApril 26, 2006The Canberra Times

In May 2005 Papua New Guinea refused a $23 million World Bank loan designed to...

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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