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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...

Nose cut off to spite the face
Helen HughesMay 31, 2005The Courier Mail

The withdrawal of the Australian police, following the Papua New Guinean Supreme Court ruling that...

New deal for communities
Helen HughesMarch 1, 2005The Courier Mail

Third World unemployment, welfare dependence, housing, ill health and violence in remote communities contrast starkly...

Coombs’ tragic legacy
Helen HughesMarch 1, 2005The Australian Financial Review

In reviewing the Community Development Employment Program the federal government has hopefully taken a first...

More aid is no solution for Islands
Helen HughesDecember 29, 2004The New Zealand Herald

Australians and New Zealanders pride themselves on giving the Pacific a helping hand. Yet the...

Ripples of change surfacing in a stagnant Pacific
Helen HughesDecember 2, 2004The Sydney Morning Herald

Income has barely grown faster than population in the Pacific for the 30th consecutive year,...

Fortune lost to betrayal
Helen HughesOctober 22, 2004The Australian

THE older ones among you will remember my first arrival in Nauru in 1963 after...

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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