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Helen Hughes

Helen Hughes AO 1928 – 2013

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Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value: Moving Toward, Or Away From, Wage Justice for Women?
Helen HughesJune 26, 1998IA2

Equal pay for equal work initiatives in the 1970s gave Australia a lead in closing...

Working Youth: Tackling Australian Youth Unemployment
Helen HughesMay 1, 1996PM34

Youth unemployment is a major social and economic problem. The official statistics put youth unemployment...

Australia’s Asian Challenge
Helen Hughes, Wolfgang Kasper, John MacleodFebruary 24, 1994PF12

Australia’s Asian challenge is to take advantage of the many opportunities for economic, cultural, social...

Faulty index poor guide to real benefits
Helen HughesMay 20, 2003The Australian Financial Review

Measuring a country's commitment to aid and development can be a flawed process. Two American...

Way out for poor little rich island
Helen HughesApril 8, 2003The Australian

Nauru – an island of 22sq km, lying near the Equator, thousands of kilometres from...

Lies and statistics
Helen HughesNovember 4, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Surjit Bhalla's book Imagine There's No Country has created a furore in Washington by convincingly...

PNG in need for much more than money
Helen HughesAugust 14, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Papua New Guinea has become a dysfunctional state.  Per capita income is falling, public services...

The poor need trade, not aid
Helen HughesJune 22, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Australia is not alone in its 'asylum seeker' problems. 'Asylum seekers' are putting pressures on...

Poor Approach to the Economy: Claims that poverty is growing in Australia are built on shifting sands
Helen HughesJune 17, 2002The Australian Financial Review

Does Australia have an increasing poverty problem or not? The Centre for Independent Studies' Policy...

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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