Ita Buttrose
- Actress
- Producer
- Executive
One of Australia's leading media personalities, Ita Buttrose was the
founding editor of Cleo magazine. She was also editor of The Australian
Women's Weekly, Editor in Chief of the Sydney Daily Telegraph & Sydney
Sunday Telegraph and the Sun-Herald in Sydney and editor and founder of
ITA Magazine. She has also published A Passionate Life, Your Guide to
Modern Etiquette, My First Forty Years and a short story Interlude in
New York. Shortly a motivational book written by Ita will be published
and she is now working on her first novel. As CEO of Capricorn
Publishing 1988-94, Ita and her company designed and edited Tax Pack
for the Australian Tax Department, theatre programs for shows like
Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease and Aspects of Love and designed the
special "secret" identity program for Telecom and its transition to
Telstra. Now a director of Buttrose & Dominguez, Ita's company does
specialist publishing such as DJ's, David Jones' magazine for account
card holders. In 1995-6 Ita hosted a talkback and news/comment
afternoon show on 2GB. She has also been a guest commentator on 3UZ
with John Blackman and Wilbur Wilde, and hosted shows on 2KY and 2UE.
Ita is a constant guest on television talk shows and current affairs
shows and was a regular guest on the John Mangos Show. She is patron of
Women of Vision, World Vision Australia, The University of the Third
Age, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation of Australia, Amarant, the
National Menopause Foundation, the Sydney Women's Festival, Safety
House and National Institute of Secretaries and Administrators. Among
Ita's current appointments are The Olympic Club, Director of The Smith
Family, Chairwoman Australian Service Nurses National Memorial Fund
Committee, Australia Beautiful Council, spokesperson, National
Arthritis Foundation Director, Adelaide Arts Festival and Director
Sydney Symphony Council. Ita received an OBE in 1979 and Officer of the
Order of Australia in 1988. She was the first woman to receive the
Harnett Medal for community service and achievements in publishing,
journalism, radio and TV. She was named Variety Club's Personality of
the Year in 1984, Australasian Academy of Broadcast, Arts and Sciences
for most promising Newcomer to Radio, also in 1984, and in 1993,
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Australian of the Year.
