Helen Hughes

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Helen Hughes AO (born October 1, 1928) is Professor Emeritus at the Australian National University and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies.

Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia Hughes migrated with her parents to Melbourne in 1939. She completed a BA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne in 1949 and an MA (Hons) in 1951. Her dissertation on the history of the Australian steel industry was later published as her first book, and she completed her PhD at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1954.

In 1985 Hughes presented the ABC's 'Boyer Lectures' on 'Australia in a Developing World'. She was Professor of Economics and Director of the National Centre for Development Studies at ANU from 1983 to 1993, and a member of the Fitzgerald Committee on Immigration: A Commitment to Australia. She also worked at the World Bank from 1968 to 1983 and was a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Planning from 1987 to 1993 ^[1].

Hughes current research focus is on the development problems facing the Pacific Island nations and remote Indigenous Australian communities in Australia.

Her most recent book, Lands of Shame, is about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 'Homelands' and reviews demographic trends, law and order, land rights, joblessness and welfare, education, health, housing and governance, and assesses Commonwealth, State and Territory policies. It is published by and available from the Centre for Independent Studies.^[2]

In 1985 Hughes was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for "service to international relations, particularly in the field of economics".^[3] In 2001 she was awarded the Centenary Medal, for "service to economic policy, particularly poverty alleviation and economic development".^[4]

1 Timeline
2 Books
3 Trivia
4 Notes

[edit] Timeline

October 1 1928	Born Prague Czechoslovakia
1939	Migrated to Melbourne Australia
1949	BA (Hons) University of Melbourne
1951	MA (Hons) University of Melbourne
1954	PhD London School of Economics (LSE)
1955-1958	University of Melbourne
1959-1960	University of NSW
1961-1962	University of Queensland
1963-1968	Australian National University
1969-1983	World Bank Washington DC
1983-1993	Australian National University – Director, National Centre for Development Studies
1985	ABC Boyer Lectures – ‘Australia in a Developing World’
1993-1995	University of Melbourne
Current	Emeritus Professor of Economics (ANU); Senior Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies

[edit] Books

Helen Hughes has written, edited or co-authored at least 18 books on topics such as employment, economic development, international trade and investment, Australian foreign policy and migration, including:

The Political Economy of Nauru (1964)
Prospects for Partnership (1973)
Policies for Industrial Progress in Developing Countries (1980)
Achieving Industrialization in East Asia (1988)^[5]
Lands of Shame - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 'Homelands' in Transition (2007)

[edit] Trivia

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In 1980, Helen Hughes appeared as a World Bank Economist on a panel moderated by Robert McKenzie featuring Donald Rumsfeld, Jagdish Bhagwati, and Richard Deason (an IBEW union leader) as part of the Milton Friedman's PBS documentary "Free To Choose"^[6].