Professor Helen Hughes

Archival colour photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes standing holding cup of tea next to tall male colleague at ILO World Employment Programme, 1978.

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CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about men feeling professionally threatened by her.

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MS B&W photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes standing in garden of Rockefeller Writers' Centre, 1990, wearing large glasses.

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CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about men feeling professionally threatened by her and the need to be forceful.

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Archival B&W photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes as a baby sitting on nurse's lap looking at her mother seated next to nurse, 1929. CU photograph of Hughes as baby with her face against mother's cheek. MS B&W photograph of baby Hughes being held by her father. CU photograph of Hughes as baby wearing beanie being held by her mother. CU portrait of Hughes's father as a young man.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her parents.

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Archival B&W WS photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes's large family home in Czechoslovakia.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her parents and their large home.

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Archival B&W WS photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes as a young girl with large bow in her hair sitting on her father's lap in garden, 1932.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about the reasons why she was an only child.

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Archival B&W WS photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes as a young girl leaning against wrought iron of balcony, 1931.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her upbringing.

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Archival B&W MS photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes as a young girl holding posy of flowers, 1933.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her father.

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Archival B&W MS photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes as a young girl with her mother.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her early relationship with her mother and her father. Slow zoom in to CU of Hughes as she relates a story about her father's methods of educating her.

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Archival B&W MS photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes as a young girl on skis on snow, 1933.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her father's political life.

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Archival B&W CU portrait photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes's father in his Austro-Hungarian army uniform, 1916.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her father's political life in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Archival B&W footage of Nazi rally with footage of Hitler and high angle WS over enormous crowds.

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CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her parent's acknowledgement of their Judaism in the late 1920s and 1930s.

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Archival B&W footage of Kristalnacht, Germany, November 1938. GS window being smashed and room torched, fascist rallies through streets of Germany, people defacing shop windows belonging to Jews writing "Jude" in large letters and MS fascists wearing Nazi armbands chanting from open top car in street. Pan across crowds in streets.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about hearing about the growing violence in Germany from the radio in the late 1930s as a child.

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Archival B&W footage during rise of Fascism of homeless people on streets, people loading belongings onto trucks and a mixture of newsreel and reconstructed footage of people being loaded into cattle trucks. WS train across landscape.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her parents' decision to emigrate on the eve of World War II and how they came to acquire visas despite the difficulties at the time.

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Archival B&W CU portrait photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes's mother, 1930s.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her watching the Germans march into Prague from a window as a child.

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Archival B&W footage of Germans marching through streets of Prague, 1939. WS of street, GS German band drumming as soldiers march past, tanks down street and onlookers watching march.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about the violence her family had started to be subjected to. Slow zoom in to CU as Hughes relates how her family escaped Czechoslovakia.

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Archival B&W footage of steam train with light through steam and GS of wheels as train moves along tracks slowly. GS train out of shed and tilt up to WS as train travels over bridge.

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CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her recollections of arriving in Holland as a child.

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Archival B&W WS of passenger liner "Dominion Monarch" docked in Melbourne, July, 1939.

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CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her great need as a refugee child to fit in

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Archival B&W CU photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes as a child.

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CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about the fate of her family left behind in Europe during WWII.

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Archival B&W CU photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes's grandparents in a forest setting.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her parents' pursuit of culture.

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Archival B&W WS photograph of audience seated in stalls and balcony in Melbourne Town Hall.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her parents' pursuit of culture and her cultural upbringing.

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Archival B&W MS MacRobertson Girls High School photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes, 1944.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about why she chose to study economics at high school.

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Archival B&W WS of Melbourne University Faculty of Arts buildings including lamp post and clock tower, 1940.

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Zoom in to CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about why she chose to study economics at university.

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Archival B&W WS of Ian Hughes lying on towel in backyard wearing bathing suit, 1948.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about being with her husband journalist Ian Hughes during university days.

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Archival B&W WS of economist Professor Helen Hughes with Ian Hughes on street, 1951.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her politics at university.

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Archival B&W WS of youths on the streets with banners at the World youth Festival, East Berlin, 1951. MS B&W photograph of economist Helen Hughes sitting on panel behind sign "Australia" next to colleagues, all wearing headphones. WS B&W photograph of Ian Hughes in group shot in China.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her early travel opportunities.

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Archival B&W MS photograph of economist Helen Hughes as a young woman posing with friend in Romania, 1952.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her time at the London School of Economics.

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Archival B&W WS photograph of economist Helen Hughes as a young woman posing with her husband Ian in front of pond, 1951.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her time in London writing her PhD thesis.

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Archival B&W CU photograph of economist Helen Hughes as a young woman.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about the difficulty she had in securing a job on her return from England.

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Archival B&W MS photograph of economist Helen Hughes as a young woman in swimming costume holding baby son. Photograph of Hughes and husband Ian playing with toddler son and book.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about the difficulty she had in securing a job as a married woman and mother in the 1950s.

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Archival B&W MS photograph of economist Helen Hughes in profile as a young woman wearing glasses with hair in bun, 1958.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about the flexibility of academic life in raising a family.

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Archival B&W CU photograph of Professor David Rowan, Dean of Commerce, University of New South Wales.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her time working with Professor David Rowan in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of New South Wales.

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Archival B&W CU photographic portrait of economist Professor Helen Hughes in black rimmed cat's eye glasses.

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CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about the difficulties of competing in a Man's world and the effects on her personal life.

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Archival B&W CU photographic portrait of economist Professor Helen Hughes in black rimmed cat's eye glasses casting upwards glance. Dissolve to MS of Hughes drawing diagram on blackboard at Australian National University, 1968.

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Zoom out from CU to MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about the work she did in 1963 with industrialisation in South East Asia.

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Archival B&W CU photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes in round black rimmed glasses and hair in bun.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about the responsibility of the work she did in the 1960s with industrialisation in South East Asia and the contacts she made in the five years she spent in the area. She also talks about the book she wrote on industrialisation.

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Archival B&W CU photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about meeting her second husband, Graham Dorrance on her way to the World Bank in Bangkok.

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Colour photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes's second husband Graham Dorrance standing in garden, 1993.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about meeting her second husband, Graham Dorrance on her way to the World Bank in Bangkok.

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Zoom in to B&W photograph of exterior of World Bank Building, main entrance 1818 H Street, Washington. MS photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes in World Bank building with pot plant in background.

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Slow zoom in to CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her work at the World Bank and of being one of the first of the World Bank's female managers, and other achievements within the World Bank.

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WS colour photograph of staff at the World Bank, 1983.

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CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her work at the World Bank and the development of the World Development Reports and World Development Indicators during her time there.

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WS B&W photograph of the exterior of the World Bank, Washington DC.

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CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes explaining how the World Bank worked.

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WS colour photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes as a delegate on panel with two colleagues at the World Bank, Washington DC.

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CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about the work she dad on returning to Australia.

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MS colour photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes in white jacket smiling to camera.

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CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her work on immigration and involvement in the Fitzgerald Committee on Immigration.

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CU B&W photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes looking serious.

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CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her belief in the findings of the Fitzgerald Committee on Immigration.

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MS colour photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes's family at picnic.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about the importance of family in her life.

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GS colour photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes's sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren. Tilt up colour photograph of Hughes's grandchildren in fig tree.

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MS interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her hopes for the future world her grandchildren will live in.

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Colour footage of Neo-Nazis descending step of railway shouting slogans and VS large Neo-Nazi rally in streets, Germany, 1991.

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CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes expressing her concern about the rise of new fascism in Europe.

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Colour footage of skinheads and right-wing demonstrators on the steps of Parliament House and scuffling with police on horseback, Melbourne, 1995.

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CU interview with economist Professor Helen Hughes talking about her concerns for the rise of far right-wing politics in Australia.

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MS colour photograph of economist Professor Helen Hughes in academic cap and robes, 1994. Closing credits

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