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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...

NAPLAN tests show the Indigenous gap
Helen HughesMay 11, 2010The Newcastle Herald

National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) 2010 tests start today. The test results and...

Moving targets are failing Indigenous students
Helen HughesApril 30, 2010

'The realistic timeframe that should be considered to achieve outcomes for Indigenous people equal to...

Education fails indigenous kids
Helen HughesApril 29, 2010The Australian

Australia has to improve its education constantly, performing better from year to year in international...

Indigenous students from welfare-dependent families perform poorly
Helen HughesApril 10, 2010Adelaide Now

Although only some 30,000 out of the 540,000 Australians who identify as Aboriginal or Torres...

Hard facts hit home on Indigenous jobs
Helen HughesMarch 9, 2010The Newcastle Herald

Although remote indigenous communities in the far north have the worst living standards in Australia,...

Indigenous Australians denied employment by inept policies
Helen HughesMarch 5, 2010

Emeritus Professor Helen Hughes is a Senior Research Fellow at The Centre for Independent studies....

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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