Bettina Cass

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Bettina Cass

Born1940 (age 8283)
Alma mater University of New South Wales

Bettina Cass AO FASSA (born 1940) is an Australian sociologist and social policy adviser. As of 2020 she is emeritus professor at both the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney. [1] After retirement, she continued to coordinate the Higher Research Degree programme at the Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW. [2]

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Bettina Cass was born in Waverley, New South Wales, Australia, in 1940. [3]

Cass was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1989. [4] She was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1990 Australia Day Honours for "service to social security policy and women's affairs". [5]

Cass was married to Dr Cecil Cass, with whom she had four children. [6] Her daughter, Gina Cass-Gottlieb, was appointed chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission in March 2022. [7]

The Cass Review

The major contribution of Cass to policy was the Social Security Review, instigated by Social Security Minister Brian Howe, which she directed from 1986 to 199. The Review was a model for many that came after it. It performed a wide ranging consultation and produced six background papers and a final report. The Review led to major changes in Australian social security programmes and operations, most of which have continued to the present. It made recommendations on family income support, sole parent family policy, unemployment policies, income support for illness and disability, and retirement incomes policy. Substantial revisions of programmes were undertaken by 1994, to which the review wholly or partially contributed.

Longer term effects of the Review included

The main changes to individual payments were

[8]

Selected publications

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References

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  5. "Professor Bettina Cass". It's An Honour. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  6. "Fine doctor left a lasting legacy". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 October 2004. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  7. Butler, Ben (25 March 2022). "The power of one: Gina Cass-Gottlieb on becoming the first woman to lead the ACCC". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  8. Yeend, Peter (2000). "Welfare review". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 13 July 2022.