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Helen Hughes

Helen Hughes AO 1928 – 2013

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Indigenous Education 2012
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesJune 27, 2012PM129

In 2008, governments reduced their Indigenous literacy and numeracy target from ‘fix the problem in...

NSW Community Discussion Paper: Improving Educational Outcomes for Aboriginal People
Helen Hughes, Mark HughesMarch 23, 2012

By ending the raft of current discriminatory, costly and ineffective Indigenous education policies, the New...

Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
Helen Hughes, Sara HudsonNovember 18, 2011

Australia has a serious problem in low participation in higher education by students from low...

FaHCSIA Indigenous Economic Development Strategy 2010
Helen Hughes, Mark Hughes, Sara HudsonDecember 17, 2010

Governments state that their objective is for Indigenous townships to develop and prosper like

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Private Housing on Indigenous Lands
Helen Hughes, Mark Hughes, Sara HudsonNovember 17, 2010PM113

Almost 20% of Australia and almost 50% of the Northern Territory are Indigenous lands. Yet...

Indigenous Education 2010
Helen HughesApril 20, 2010PM110

The 2009 NAPLAN results for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students again show high rates...

Army of well-paid advisers keep Pacific poor
Helen HughesFebruary 22, 2010The Australian

Taxpayers should be extremely concerned that egregiously high salaries are paid to aid-funded advisers, not...

Peak chocolate?
Helen HughesFebruary 12, 2010

Assorted Pralines Professor Helen Hughes is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies.

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Authorities must not wag school
Helen HughesOctober 16, 2009The Australian

The just released National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) results for this year...

The bankers at least got something right
Helen HughesOctober 16, 2009

The Nobel Prize in economics by the Swedish central bank has been controversial since at...

Car socialism alive and well
Helen HughesOctober 2, 2009

Once upon a time, there was a country whose government had decided in all its...

Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage 2009
Helen HughesJuly 8, 2009

The Commonwealth government hoped for favourable coverage from the release of the Productivity Commission’s Overcoming...

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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