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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...

School litany of shame
Helen HughesDecember 14, 2008

With the May 2009 national literacy and numeracy tests only six months away, it is...

Numbers don’t go remotely to issue
Helen HughesNovember 28, 2008The Australian

The news that the Australian Bureau of Statistics has found the 17 year gap in...

The Northern Territory’s performance in national literacy and numeracy testing
Helen HughesSeptember 17, 2008The Australian

When we drew attention to the failures of Northern Territory schooling in April this year,...

Guest workers and the Northern Territory
Helen HughesSeptember 14, 2008The Sunday Territorian

To Australia’s embarrassment, by not tackling the problems that prevent Aborigines picking the fruit that...

Major General Jeffrey and aborigines in the open society
Helen HughesSeptember 8, 2008The Australian

Major General Jeffery is to be congratulated for drawing attention, on his last day as...

Good policy better than guest work for neighbours
Helen HughesAugust 21, 2008The Canberra Times

The announcement that Australia is inaugurating a ‘guest worker’ scheme for Pacific islanders to pick...

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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