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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...

Who are Indigenous Australians?
Helen HughesJune 13, 2009NZCPR

In 1967 Australians overwhelmingly supported a referendum that altered the Australian constitution in regard to...

Reducing the longevity gap for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
Helen HughesJune 5, 2009

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has announced that it has reduced the longevity ‘gap’ for...

Commonwealth government fails remote Indigenous students
Helen HughesMay 15, 2009

The second round of National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests took place...

What this week’s NAPLAN tests mean for Indigenous Education
Helen HughesMay 8, 2009

This week all Australian children in school years 3, 5, 7 and  9 sat numeracy...

Making remote schools work will take commitment
Helen HughesApril 11, 2009The Australian

Indigenous illiteracy and non-numeracy has been recognised as a problem in Australia for more than...

Has Indigenous Education Been Shortchanged Again?
Helen HughesMarch 6, 2009The Australian

The minister for education’s plan to fund two hundred additional teachers with $100 million of...

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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