Helen Hughes [efilm]
2015
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Economist. Born Czechoslavakia, 1928. Died 2013. Professor Helen Hughes was born into a Jewish family of social democrats in a small town in Czech-Bohemia. As a child she witnessed Hitler's rise to power, watching the German tanks roll into Prague in 1939. Realising they would not survive the Nazis, members of her family bribed an SS officer to provide them with an exit visa. They escaped across the border and in July 1939 arrived in Australia. After Helen's father died her mother supported her studies at Melbourne University and the London School of Economics. For a short time she was a Lecturer in Economic History. Eventually she joined the World Bank, achieving the position of Director, Economic Analysis Department during the period 1968-1983. She has travelled widely, addressing many international conferences and working with the world's top economists. Helen returned to Australia to set up the Australian National University's Development Studies Centre and, after retiring from ANU, created the Full Employment Project. She is well-known for her strong opinions and is pleased to consider herself a "stirrer" and a "boat-rocker". A Film Australia National Interest Program. Copyright - 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Executive Producer: Sharon Connolly Producer: Frank Heimans Director: Frank Heimans Writer: Frank Heimans DOP/Cinematographer: Paul Ree Narrator/Presenter: Robin Hughes (Interviewer) Featured People: Professor Helen Hughes
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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file)
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Title from title frames.In Process Record.Originally produced by National Film and Sound Archive of Australia in 1996.In English
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Australian and Indigenous Studies
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