Ian Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY I |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7896-3550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Donor Advised Fund Policies and Intergenerational Justice
Questions about donor advised funds (DAFs) abound in the nonprofit sector. Every year more money is contributed, with donations to DAFs doubling in the past five years. A key set of questions about DAFs relates to how long that money stays in DAFs before being redistributed. Writing previously in Nonprofit Policy Forum, Murray (Murray, I. 2020. “Donor Advised Funds: What Can North America Learn from the Australian Approach?” Canadian Journal of C…
Characterising and Changing Charitable Purposes
The last decade has witnessed material interest in the relevance of organisational purpose to organisational governance for both for‐profit corporations and charities. A purpose‐focus promises greater clarity for responsible person duties, as well as motivational benefits. However, despite its centrality, the nature of organisational purpose remains under‐theorised. This article first explores theoretical understandings of organisational purpose …
Restricted Philanthropic Gifts
Restricted philanthropic gifts are becoming more common, yet their legal characterisation is unsettled. Moreover, other than from anecdotal evidence, it is unclear how charities treat such gifts in practice. This article investigates the potential legal characterisations of restricted gifts and identifies the charitable trust as a commonly preferred construction by the courts. It then examines original empirical interview evidence from charities …
Donor Advised Funds & Delay
Much writing on Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) relates to whether they ‘unduly’ delay the direct application of donated funds to achieve public benefit. However, the discussion rarely touches on a normative basis for determining what is ‘undue’ or that can be used to shape potential reforms, which are typically framed with reference to a private foundation payout rate or time limit for expending contributions. Research on charity accumulation conduct…
The third sector and democracy in Australia
Pluralism is a key component of liberal democracy, ensuring that diverse groups of citizens have opportunities to contribute to the governance of their society. Third sector organisations (TSOs) are central to pluralist democracy, representing diverse interests through advocacy. Advocacy has many forms but the most visible are protests or public demonstrations aimed at widespread public engagement. However, curtailing advocacy capacity for TSOs h…
Charities & Discrimination
Discrimination by charities raises questions about the appropriate extent of equality regulation and has implications for government outsourcing through charities and for the provision of tax concessions. Professor Parachin has recently provided a justification for denying the application of public equality norms to charities through the public policy test of charity law. This paper builds on that work by considering whether liberal societies mig…
Outsourcing to Not-for-Profits
Governments increasingly rely on charities to provide services on behalf of government. Decisions on outsourced functions can relate to the distribution of public resources, such as the provision of housing, education or legal assistance. Accordingly, such decisions can be contentious and outsourcing potentially places that contention in the private sphere rather than the public sphere. This article examines the extent to which outsourcing servic…
Regulating Charity in a Federated State
The last few decades have witnessed radical reform of charity regulation around the world. Australia has not been untouched and has developed several unique approaches. First, unlike many other federations (such as the US and Canada), Australia relies on a charities commission rather than its federal tax authority to act as the principal regulator, resulting in a very different scope of responsibility and the likelihood of greater interaction wit…
The Blossoming of Public Benevolent Institutions
Public benevolent institutions ('PBIs') form a class of not-for-profit ('NFP') entities that is entitled to various taxation concessions. The PBI concept was originally adopted in order to deliver selected tax benefits to a narrower group of NFPs than charities, given the wide legal meaning of 'charitable'. As well as being eligible for income tax exemption like charities, PBIs can be deductible gift recipients ('DGR'), which means that donors ma…
Doing the kids a favour
Exploring ‘person-centredness’
This paper explores service users' experiences of a 'person-centred' mental health service. We describe the development of a model of social psychiatry that places the emphasis on the experiences of the person within social and political contexts. This establishes the foundations of a 'person-centred' approach, the values of which are described briefly. The results of interviews with 20 people are presented, in which their experiences of the serv…
Paulesco and the Isolation of Insulin
Paulesco and the Isolation of Insulin IAN MURRAY IAN MURRAY Strathblane, nr. GlasgowScotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXVI, Issue 2, April 1971, Pages 150–157, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXVI.2.150 Published: 01 April 1971
The third sector and democracy in Australia
Pluralism is a key component of liberal democracy, ensuring that diverse groups of citizens have opportunities to contribute to the governance of their society. Third sector organisations (TSOs) are central to pluralist democracy, representing diverse interests through advocacy. Advocacy has many forms but the most visible are protests or public demonstrations aimed at widespread public engagement. However, curtailing advocacy capacity for TSOs h…
Exploring ‘person-centredness’
This paper explores service users' experiences of a 'person-centred' mental health service. We describe the development of a model of social psychiatry that places the emphasis on the experiences of the person within social and political contexts. This establishes the foundations of a 'person-centred' approach, the values of which are described briefly. The results of interviews with 20 people are presented, in which their experiences of the serv…
Outsourcing to Not-for-Profits
Governments increasingly rely on charities to provide services on behalf of government. Decisions on outsourced functions can relate to the distribution of public resources, such as the provision of housing, education or legal assistance. Accordingly, such decisions can be contentious and outsourcing potentially places that contention in the private sphere rather than the public sphere. This article examines the extent to which outsourcing servic…
Doing the kids a favour
Paulesco and the Isolation of Insulin
Paulesco and the Isolation of Insulin IAN MURRAY IAN MURRAY Strathblane, nr. GlasgowScotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXVI, Issue 2, April 1971, Pages 150–157, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXVI.2.150 Published: 01 April 1971
Exploring ‘person-centredness’
This paper explores service users' experiences of a 'person-centred' mental health service. We describe the development of a model of social psychiatry that places the emphasis on the experiences of the person within social and political contexts. This establishes the foundations of a 'person-centred' approach, the values of which are described briefly. The results of interviews with 20 people are presented, in which their experiences of the serv…
Doing the kids a favour
The Blossoming of Public Benevolent Institutions
Public benevolent institutions ('PBIs') form a class of not-for-profit ('NFP') entities that is entitled to various taxation concessions. The PBI concept was originally adopted in order to deliver selected tax benefits to a narrower group of NFPs than charities, given the wide legal meaning of 'charitable'. As well as being eligible for income tax exemption like charities, PBIs can be deductible gift recipients ('DGR'), which means that donors ma…
Regulating Charity in a Federated State
The last few decades have witnessed radical reform of charity regulation around the world. Australia has not been untouched and has developed several unique approaches. First, unlike many other federations (such as the US and Canada), Australia relies on a charities commission rather than its federal tax authority to act as the principal regulator, resulting in a very different scope of responsibility and the likelihood of greater interaction wit…
Outsourcing to Not-for-Profits
Governments increasingly rely on charities to provide services on behalf of government. Decisions on outsourced functions can relate to the distribution of public resources, such as the provision of housing, education or legal assistance. Accordingly, such decisions can be contentious and outsourcing potentially places that contention in the private sphere rather than the public sphere. This article examines the extent to which outsourcing servic…
Charities & Discrimination
Discrimination by charities raises questions about the appropriate extent of equality regulation and has implications for government outsourcing through charities and for the provision of tax concessions. Professor Parachin has recently provided a justification for denying the application of public equality norms to charities through the public policy test of charity law. This paper builds on that work by considering whether liberal societies mig…
Donor Advised Funds & Delay
Much writing on Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) relates to whether they ‘unduly’ delay the direct application of donated funds to achieve public benefit. However, the discussion rarely touches on a normative basis for determining what is ‘undue’ or that can be used to shape potential reforms, which are typically framed with reference to a private foundation payout rate or time limit for expending contributions. Research on charity accumulation conduct…
The third sector and democracy in Australia
Pluralism is a key component of liberal democracy, ensuring that diverse groups of citizens have opportunities to contribute to the governance of their society. Third sector organisations (TSOs) are central to pluralist democracy, representing diverse interests through advocacy. Advocacy has many forms but the most visible are protests or public demonstrations aimed at widespread public engagement. However, curtailing advocacy capacity for TSOs h…
Characterising and Changing Charitable Purposes
The last decade has witnessed material interest in the relevance of organisational purpose to organisational governance for both for‐profit corporations and charities. A purpose‐focus promises greater clarity for responsible person duties, as well as motivational benefits. However, despite its centrality, the nature of organisational purpose remains under‐theorised. This article first explores theoretical understandings of organisational purpose …
Restricted Philanthropic Gifts
Restricted philanthropic gifts are becoming more common, yet their legal characterisation is unsettled. Moreover, other than from anecdotal evidence, it is unclear how charities treat such gifts in practice. This article investigates the potential legal characterisations of restricted gifts and identifies the charitable trust as a commonly preferred construction by the courts. It then examines original empirical interview evidence from charities …
Donor Advised Fund Policies and Intergenerational Justice
Questions about donor advised funds (DAFs) abound in the nonprofit sector. Every year more money is contributed, with donations to DAFs doubling in the past five years. A key set of questions about DAFs relates to how long that money stays in DAFs before being redistributed. Writing previously in Nonprofit Policy Forum, Murray (Murray, I. 2020. “Donor Advised Funds: What Can North America Learn from the Australian Approach?” Canadian Journal of C…
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