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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...

Review of indigenous literacy and numeracy 2008-2011
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesJune 28, 2012ON LINE Opinion

NAPLAN results from across Australia show that Queensland and Western Australia are the only states...

WA can do more in indigenous education
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesJune 27, 2012The West Australian

WA is on its way to reducing indigenous literacy and numeracy failure rates, which will...

‘Indigenous-specific’ programs are a $300m waste
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesJune 27, 2012The Australian

If Queensland and WA do meet their indigenous literacy and numeracy targets, it will take...

Hughes: Neither race nor distance
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesJune 27, 2012The Advertiser

SOUTH Australia has relatively few indigenous students, but some of Australia's highest indigenous literacy and...

End the cargo-cult aid mentality that has ruined our neighbours
Helen HughesApril 16, 2012The Australian

The villagers of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, together with those of Fiji's...

Remote disadvantage even worse than reported
Helen HughesSeptember 27, 2011The Australian

Billions of taxpayer dollars are wasted on programs that mostly benefit bureaucrats IN February, the...

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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