Matthew Gray
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3705341 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matthew Gray |
| PRENOMES | Matthew |
| SOBRENOME | Gray |
| ASSINATURA | GRAY M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6561-524X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Taking the long view
This paper presents an analysis of Indigenous employment trends in Australia from 1981 to 2021, using nine iterations of 5-yearly Census data. It offers the most consistent long-term estimates available and situates these trends within broader shifts in the Australian labour market. Three key findings emerge. First, the overall increase in Indigenous employment over the 40-year period is primarily driven by the substantial rise in employment amon…
Fostering integrated healthcare in rural Australia
Our review examines the operational dynamics and effectiveness of integrated healthcare models in Australia, focusing on their relevance for older rural adults with preventable chronic diseases. Using Whittemore and Knafl's (2005) systematic integrative review methods, we conducted a search across five databases, including Medline-EBSCO, PubMed, CINAHL, EMBASE, and SCOPUS. The Sustainable Integrated Chronic Care Models for Multimorbidity (SELFIE)…
Educational Mismatch and the Indigenous Labour Market
A case and research agenda for the study of scent and perfumery in the Gulf
Scholars have recently begun to turn their attention to the study of sensory perceptions, however to date their focus has overwhelmingly been on sight and sound: this is perhaps understandable, given the cultural importance of art, film and music. Crucially they are the sensations that can most easily and accurately be captured and arguably are more easily framed and described in most languages than are the sensations from smell, taste and touch.…
Federalism and Confidence in Australian Governments During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic was the most severe global health crisis for a century. Most advanced democracies introduced restrictions on social interaction to reduce community infection. This article examines how public confidence in Australia’s federal system of government was affected by these restrictions. We use a longitudinal dataset collected nationally between 2020 and 2022 to evaluate how public confidence in both federal and state governments …
The influence of natural disasters and multiple natural disasters on self-harm and suicidal behaviour
Few studies have examined the relationship between exposure to natural hazards and suicide and self-harm in youth. We extend prior research by investigating the association between multiple disasters and the risks of self-harm and suicide longitudinally in a nationally representative longitudinal cohort of adolescents 14 to 15 years to 18-19 years of age. Natural disasters were identified through parental self-reports for the local area. Differen…
The rise of minilateralism, the Indo-Pacific context, and the Arab Gulf states
This paper examines the potential of minilateralism in the context of the Arab Gulf states, given changes in the global geopolitical environment. As major powers such as the United States and China vie for security and economic opportunities, the Gulf will play a crucial role. Unlike the Cold War's simple bipolar order, the 2020s are likely to involve less formal and more dynamic arrangements, termed 'minilateralism'. This paper details the sourc…
The Impact of the Pandemic on Opinion toward the Role of Government in Australia
The 2020-23 COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a level of governmentimposed restrictions on personal freedom unknown outside of wartime. How did these restrictions affect citizens' views about the appropriate role of government? To answer this question, we use a unique longitudinal dataset that matches the public's views about the role of government in Australia to local variations in restrictions on personal freedom aimed at reducing community infect…
Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance
Background High levels of vaccination coverage in populations will be required even with vaccines that have high levels of effectiveness to prevent and stop outbreaks of coronavirus. The World Health Organisation has suggested that governments take a proactive response to vaccine hesitancy ‘hotspots’ based on social and behavioural insights. Methods Representative longitudinal online survey of over 3000 adults from Australia that examines the dem…
The influence of natural disasters on violence, mental health, food insecurity, and stunting in the Philippines
The Philippines Project, The Australian National University
Trajectories of Social and Economic Outcomes and Problem Gambling Risk in Australia
The social and economic impacts of drought
Although the environmental and economic impacts of drought have been widely studied, few large‐scale studies have examined the broader social impacts of drought. To fill this knowledge gap, the Australian Institute of Family Studies undertook the Regional and Rural Families Survey in 2007, when a significant part of Australia was experiencing a severe drought. This paper analyses that survey to measure the extent to which drought affects a range …
The Economy of the Gulf States
Rentierism’s Siblings
This paper examines rentier state theory (RST), and specifically “rentierism” as a more refined and nuanced variant of RST, arguing that while rentierism provides considerable utility in explaining the state-society relationships of the contemporary Arab states of the Persian Gulf, it is insufficient as a stand-alone explanation, and needs to be considered as a political dynamic of the state-society relationship, rather than as a structural expla…
The economic consequences of divorce in six OECD countries
This article uses longitudinal data to estimate the short‐ and medium‐term economic effects of divorce in the USA , the UK , Switzerland, Korea, Germany and Australia during the first decade of the 21st century. Based on the data collected during the 2000s, in all of the countries studied, divorce had, on average, negative effects on the equivalised household incomes of women. However, the extent and duration of the negative effects of divorce di…
New conditionality in Australian social security policy
The past two decades have witnessed the application of new forms of conditionality to Australian social security policy. This paper argues that a distinctive feature has been the attempt to link receipt of government benefits to parental behaviour in order to address concerns about the welfare of children. With a view to providing a framework that can help to inform debates regarding the merits of these new forms of conditionality, this paper out…
Social Worker Assessed Vulnerable Income Management
Despite the small size of the sub program, Social Worker Assessed Vulnerable Welfare Payment Recipients Income Management is often cited as a preferred approach to this type of initiative, being tightly targeted at a group of people with identified high needs, and demonstrated poor outcomes. Although the program was considered in the two recent major evaluations of income management, specific findings relating to it have tended to be overshadowed…
The Economic Impact of the Mining Boom on I ndigenous and Non‐ I ndigenous A ustralians
Many mining operations are on or near I ndigenous land, and the strong level of investment during the recent mining boom may have disproportionately affected I ndigenous communities. This article examines changes in local I ndigenous employment, income and housing costs to identify any localised ‘resource curse’ for I ndigenous communities and the A ustralian population at large. Census data are used to show the mining boom has improved employmen…
Compulsory Income Management in the Northern Territory – evaluating its impact
Australia has been experimenting with constraining the ways in which welfare recipients can spend their income support payments, limiting their ability to access cash and purchase some products. The policy objectives include to reduce spending on alcohol, gambling, pornography and tobacco in favour of meeting ‘basic’ family needs, especially for children, to limit the scope for financial harassment, encourage pro‐social behaviours, and build fina…
The Impact of Drought on Mental Health in Rural and Regional Australia
Global Security Watch—Saudi Arabia
Examines the causes and consequences of Saudi Arabia's current security policy and the domestic, regional, and international challenges the country's defense program presents to the general welfare of the Middle East. As possessor of a quarter of the world's oil reserves and host to two of the holiest cities in Islam, Saudi Arabia is an integral part of the cultural, economic, and political well-being of the Middle East. From Persian Gulf securit…
The Economic Consequences of Divorce in Australia
Divorce has become a key life-course risk that can have significant economic impacts. This article uses a new Australian data source that follows families over a 10-year period to estimate the impact of divorce on income and assets. There have been few longitudinal studies of the impact of divorce on assets and relatively few such studies of its impact on income. The article finds that divorce has a substantial negative impact upon the household …
Qatar
A small isthmus in the central Gulf, with barely 300,000 citizens and a total population of 1.7 million, Qatar has risen rapidly from obscurity to become the world's wealthiest country per capita. Matthew Gray traces this spectacular rise, exploring the development of Qatar's economy, the patterns of its politics, its role on the world stage, and its prospects for the future
Continuity and change in the Community Development Employment Projects Scheme (CDEP)
The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme is an example of an Indigenous‐specific program that combines community development and labour market program elements. This paper describes the nature of CDEP employment in 2008 and the extent to which it changed between 1994 and 2008. The paper also compares a selection of economic and social outcomes of CDEP participants with those of persons who were employed outside of CDEP, unemplo…
The Use of Social Surveys to Measure Drought and the Impact of Drought
New conditionality in Australian social security policy
The past two decades have witnessed the application of new forms of conditionality to Australian social security policy. This paper argues that a distinctive feature has been the attempt to link receipt of government benefits to parental behaviour in order to address concerns about the welfare of children. With a view to providing a framework that can help to inform debates regarding the merits of these new forms of conditionality, this paper out…
The Impact of Drought on Mental Health in Rural and Regional Australia
The economic consequences of divorce in six OECD countries
This article uses longitudinal data to estimate the short‐ and medium‐term economic effects of divorce in the USA , the UK , Switzerland, Korea, Germany and Australia during the first decade of the 21st century. Based on the data collected during the 2000s, in all of the countries studied, divorce had, on average, negative effects on the equivalised household incomes of women. However, the extent and duration of the negative effects of divorce di…
Compulsory Income Management in the Northern Territory – evaluating its impact
Australia has been experimenting with constraining the ways in which welfare recipients can spend their income support payments, limiting their ability to access cash and purchase some products. The policy objectives include to reduce spending on alcohol, gambling, pornography and tobacco in favour of meeting ‘basic’ family needs, especially for children, to limit the scope for financial harassment, encourage pro‐social behaviours, and build fina…
Divorce and the wellbeing of older Australians
In virtually all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries the number of older people who have experienced divorce at some point in their lives will increase in coming decades. While there is an extensive literature that analyses the effects of divorce on wellbeing, there is relatively little research on the long-run effects of divorce in later life. This paper uses Australian data to estimate the long-run impacts of…
The Economic Consequences of Divorce in Australia
Divorce has become a key life-course risk that can have significant economic impacts. This article uses a new Australian data source that follows families over a 10-year period to estimate the impact of divorce on income and assets. There have been few longitudinal studies of the impact of divorce on assets and relatively few such studies of its impact on income. The article finds that divorce has a substantial negative impact upon the household …
The Changing Living Arrangements of Children, 1946–2001 ⋆
Widespread social changes over the last half century have been reflected in changes in family forms. These changes have resulted in increased family diversity which, in turn, is reflected in the more diverse living arrangements experienced by children as they grow up. This paper is the first to provide reliable national estimates of the extent to which the living arrangements of Australian children have changed. Using relationship and fertility h…
Economic reform, privatization and tourism in Egypt
Since the promulgation of al-infitah ('economic opening') by Anwar Sadat in 1974, Egypt has gradually moved away from the state-led development (SLD) economic orthodoxy of the Nasser period, replacing SLD and import substitution policies with a strategy based on the retreat of the state from economic management and an expansion of the role of the private sector. Since reaching a standby agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in May …
Trajectories of Social and Economic Outcomes and Problem Gambling Risk in Australia
The Use of Social Surveys to Measure Drought and the Impact of Drought
Legislative aspirations and social realities
The Australian government has recently introduced a Bill into Parliament that is intended to improve the way concerns about family violence and child abuse are dealt with in the context of post-separation parenting disputes. The move follows recent reports examining the impact of significant reforms to the family law system introduced in 2006. Motivated by a desire to ensure that children maintain involvement with both parents after separation an…
Early impacts of Communities for Children on children and families
BACKGROUND: There have been few evaluations of national area-based interventions. This study evaluated the early effects of Commmunities for Children (CfC) on children and their families and whether the effectiveness differed for more disadvantaged families. METHODS: A quasi-experimental cohort study in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in Australia. Mothers of children aged 2-3 years participated at wave 1; 1488 children in CfC communi…
The labour market dynamics of Indigenous Australians
To date, the analysis of the reasons for the labour market disadvantage of Indigenous Australians has been constrained by the absence of longitudinal data on labour force status. This article uses the only extant large-scale longitudinal survey of the labour force outcomes of Indigenous Australians to analyse both labour market dynamics and the determinants of labour market success. The analysis reveals high rates of movements between labour forc…
Health Expenditure, Income and Health Status Among Indigenous and Other Australians
Using data from the 1995 National Health Survey (NHS) this study asks the question—what is the relationship between income, health expenditure and health status for the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in Australia? Income is generally seen as an indicator of ability to address the need for health expenditure, and as a factor in influencing health status. The
Federalism and Confidence in Australian Governments During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic was the most severe global health crisis for a century. Most advanced democracies introduced restrictions on social interaction to reduce community infection. This article examines how public confidence in Australia’s federal system of government was affected by these restrictions. We use a longitudinal dataset collected nationally between 2020 and 2022 to evaluate how public confidence in both federal and state governments …
The Impact of the Pandemic on Opinion toward the Role of Government in Australia
The 2020-23 COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a level of governmentimposed restrictions on personal freedom unknown outside of wartime. How did these restrictions affect citizens' views about the appropriate role of government? To answer this question, we use a unique longitudinal dataset that matches the public's views about the role of government in Australia to local variations in restrictions on personal freedom aimed at reducing community infect…
The Economic Impact of the Mining Boom on I ndigenous and Non‐ I ndigenous A ustralians
Many mining operations are on or near I ndigenous land, and the strong level of investment during the recent mining boom may have disproportionately affected I ndigenous communities. This article examines changes in local I ndigenous employment, income and housing costs to identify any localised ‘resource curse’ for I ndigenous communities and the A ustralian population at large. Census data are used to show the mining boom has improved employmen…
Continuity and change in the Community Development Employment Projects Scheme (CDEP)
The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme is an example of an Indigenous‐specific program that combines community development and labour market program elements. This paper describes the nature of CDEP employment in 2008 and the extent to which it changed between 1994 and 2008. The paper also compares a selection of economic and social outcomes of CDEP participants with those of persons who were employed outside of CDEP, unemplo…
Mandatory dispute resolution and the 2006 family law reforms
Community-based mandatory family dispute resolution (more generically known as family mediation) is a central plank of the 2006 changes to the Australian family law system. This paper provides an overview of the data on family dispute resolution from the Australian Institute of Family Studies’ evaluation of the 2006 changes. It reports on usage rates of family dispute resolution as well as immediate and medium term outcomes, perceived pathways to…
The Economic and Social Impacts of the CDEP Scheme in Remote Australia
The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme is an unusual labour market and social development program for Indigenous people. Currently the CDEP scheme employs around 36,000 Indigenous Australians and accounts for over one‐quarter of total Indigenous employment. Despite the significance of the CDEP scheme, in recent times, relatively little attention has been given to the potential for the scheme to be used as an instrument for ec…
Economic reform, privatization and tourism in Egypt
Since the promulgation of al-infitah ('economic opening') by Anwar Sadat in 1974, Egypt has gradually moved away from the state-led development (SLD) economic orthodoxy of the Nasser period, replacing SLD and import substitution policies with a strategy based on the retreat of the state from economic management and an expansion of the role of the private sector. Since reaching a standby agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in May …
Growth Fetish
The Changing Living Arrangements of Children, 1946–2001 ⋆
Widespread social changes over the last half century have been reflected in changes in family forms. These changes have resulted in increased family diversity which, in turn, is reflected in the more diverse living arrangements experienced by children as they grow up. This paper is the first to provide reliable national estimates of the extent to which the living arrangements of Australian children have changed. Using relationship and fertility h…
Health Expenditure, Income and Health Status Among Indigenous and Other Australians
Using data from the 1995 National Health Survey (NHS) this study asks the question—what is the relationship between income, health expenditure and health status for the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in Australia? Income is generally seen as an indicator of ability to address the need for health expenditure, and as a factor in influencing health status. The
Arafat's legacy, Abbas's challenges
The death of Yasser Arafat in November 2004 left much more than a set of job vacancies: as 'Mr Palestine', Arafat had come to embody the Palestinian cause, but also, due to the nature of his rule, left his successor Mahmoud Abbas with a list of major political and economic challenges. Chief among these is the Palestine Authority's relations with Israel and the need to return quickly to the negotiating table. But linked to the peace process are th…
The Economic and Social Impacts of the CDEP Scheme in Remote Australia
The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme is an unusual labour market and social development program for Indigenous people. Currently the CDEP scheme employs around 36,000 Indigenous Australians and accounts for over one‐quarter of total Indigenous employment. Despite the significance of the CDEP scheme, in recent times, relatively little attention has been given to the potential for the scheme to be used as an instrument for ec…
The labour market dynamics of Indigenous Australians
To date, the analysis of the reasons for the labour market disadvantage of Indigenous Australians has been constrained by the absence of longitudinal data on labour force status. This article uses the only extant large-scale longitudinal survey of the labour force outcomes of Indigenous Australians to analyse both labour market dynamics and the determinants of labour market success. The analysis reveals high rates of movements between labour forc…
Islam in the Iraqi and Afghan Constitutions
Much of the controversy that surrounded the development of a constitution in Afghanistan in 2004, and in Iraq in 2005, was over the place and prominence that Islam should assume in the documents and, by extension, the role of religion in the new politics of the two states. This paper begins by providing a short background on the Islamic perspective on constitutional politics, and then moves on to consider the case studies of Afghanistan and Iraq …
Explaining Conspiracy Theories in Modern Arab Middle Eastern Political Discourse
This paper presents a new framework for solving geometric structure and motion problems based on L8-norm. Instead of using the common sum-of-squares cost-function, that is, the L2-norm, the model-fitting errors are measured using the L8 -norm. Unlike traditional methods based on L2, our framework allows for efficient computation of global estimates. We show that a variety of structure and motion problems, for example, triangulation, camera resect…
Changes and Challenges in the Middle East
Conspiracy Theories in the Arab World
Conspiracy theories, while not unique to the Middle East, are a salient feature of the political discourses of the region. Strongly reflecting and impacting on state-society relations and indigenous impressions of the world beyond the region, they affect how political behaviour within and among the states of the region is situated, structured, and controlled. Discounting the common pathological explanation for conspiracism, the author argues that…
Mandatory dispute resolution and the 2006 family law reforms
Community-based mandatory family dispute resolution (more generically known as family mediation) is a central plank of the 2006 changes to the Australian family law system. This paper provides an overview of the data on family dispute resolution from the Australian Institute of Family Studies’ evaluation of the 2006 changes. It reports on usage rates of family dispute resolution as well as immediate and medium term outcomes, perceived pathways to…
Legislative aspirations and social realities
The Australian government has recently introduced a Bill into Parliament that is intended to improve the way concerns about family violence and child abuse are dealt with in the context of post-separation parenting disputes. The move follows recent reports examining the impact of significant reforms to the family law system introduced in 2006. Motivated by a desire to ensure that children maintain involvement with both parents after separation an…
Divorce and the wellbeing of older Australians
In virtually all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries the number of older people who have experienced divorce at some point in their lives will increase in coming decades. While there is an extensive literature that analyses the effects of divorce on wellbeing, there is relatively little research on the long-run effects of divorce in later life. This paper uses Australian data to estimate the long-run impacts of…
Early impacts of Communities for Children on children and families
BACKGROUND: There have been few evaluations of national area-based interventions. This study evaluated the early effects of Commmunities for Children (CfC) on children and their families and whether the effectiveness differed for more disadvantaged families. METHODS: A quasi-experimental cohort study in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in Australia. Mothers of children aged 2-3 years participated at wave 1; 1488 children in CfC communi…
Qatar
A small isthmus in the central Gulf, with barely 300,000 citizens and a total population of 1.7 million, Qatar has risen rapidly from obscurity to become the world's wealthiest country per capita. Matthew Gray traces this spectacular rise, exploring the development of Qatar's economy, the patterns of its politics, its role on the world stage, and its prospects for the future
Continuity and change in the Community Development Employment Projects Scheme (CDEP)
The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme is an example of an Indigenous‐specific program that combines community development and labour market program elements. This paper describes the nature of CDEP employment in 2008 and the extent to which it changed between 1994 and 2008. The paper also compares a selection of economic and social outcomes of CDEP participants with those of persons who were employed outside of CDEP, unemplo…
The Use of Social Surveys to Measure Drought and the Impact of Drought
Global Security Watch—Saudi Arabia
Examines the causes and consequences of Saudi Arabia's current security policy and the domestic, regional, and international challenges the country's defense program presents to the general welfare of the Middle East. As possessor of a quarter of the world's oil reserves and host to two of the holiest cities in Islam, Saudi Arabia is an integral part of the cultural, economic, and political well-being of the Middle East. From Persian Gulf securit…
The Economic Consequences of Divorce in Australia
Divorce has become a key life-course risk that can have significant economic impacts. This article uses a new Australian data source that follows families over a 10-year period to estimate the impact of divorce on income and assets. There have been few longitudinal studies of the impact of divorce on assets and relatively few such studies of its impact on income. The article finds that divorce has a substantial negative impact upon the household …
The Economic Impact of the Mining Boom on I ndigenous and Non‐ I ndigenous A ustralians
Many mining operations are on or near I ndigenous land, and the strong level of investment during the recent mining boom may have disproportionately affected I ndigenous communities. This article examines changes in local I ndigenous employment, income and housing costs to identify any localised ‘resource curse’ for I ndigenous communities and the A ustralian population at large. Census data are used to show the mining boom has improved employmen…
Compulsory Income Management in the Northern Territory – evaluating its impact
Australia has been experimenting with constraining the ways in which welfare recipients can spend their income support payments, limiting their ability to access cash and purchase some products. The policy objectives include to reduce spending on alcohol, gambling, pornography and tobacco in favour of meeting ‘basic’ family needs, especially for children, to limit the scope for financial harassment, encourage pro‐social behaviours, and build fina…
The Impact of Drought on Mental Health in Rural and Regional Australia
New conditionality in Australian social security policy
The past two decades have witnessed the application of new forms of conditionality to Australian social security policy. This paper argues that a distinctive feature has been the attempt to link receipt of government benefits to parental behaviour in order to address concerns about the welfare of children. With a view to providing a framework that can help to inform debates regarding the merits of these new forms of conditionality, this paper out…
Social Worker Assessed Vulnerable Income Management
Despite the small size of the sub program, Social Worker Assessed Vulnerable Welfare Payment Recipients Income Management is often cited as a preferred approach to this type of initiative, being tightly targeted at a group of people with identified high needs, and demonstrated poor outcomes. Although the program was considered in the two recent major evaluations of income management, specific findings relating to it have tended to be overshadowed…
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