Daughter of: Charles Oswald and Mary Clare (née Rodgers) Buttrose.

Ita Buttrose was the founding editor of Cleo magazine in 1972. She then became editor of the Australian Women's Weekly and later publisher of Australian Consolidated Press Women's Division. A journalist by trade, Ida Buttrose has worked in all forms of media (print, radio and television) during her career.

Before starting her own company Capricorn Publishing, Ita Buttrose was a director of News Ltd, editor-in-chief of the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs, columnist and editorial consultant for the Fairfax magazine group and then editor-in-chief of the Sun Herald newspaper.

From 1984-1988, Ita Buttrose chaired the National Advisory Committee on AIDS. She is patron of Women of Vision, World Vision Australia, The University of 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.

In 1984 she was named Variety Club's Personality of the Year as well as Australasian Academy of Broadcast, Arts and Sciences for the most promising Newcomer to Radio. In 1993 Ita Buttrose was named Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Australian of the Year.

[1] http://www.cew.org.au/view_profile.cfm?member=Ita%20Buttrose accessed 28/10/2002.
[2] ibid

Events

17 January 1942

Born daughter of Charles Oswald and Mary Clare (née Rodgers) Buttrose

1970 - 2000

Career in journalism active

1972 - 1975

Founding editor of Cleo

1975 - 1976

Editor of the Australian Women's Weekly

1976 - 1981

Editor-in-chief of the Australian Women's Weekly and of Cleo

1978 - 1981

Director of the K G Murray Leisure Group

16 June 1979

Appointed the Order of the British Empire - Officer (Civil)

1981

Appointed Board member of News Ltd, Australia

1981 - 1984

Editor-in-chief of the The Daily Telegraph and of the The Sunday Telegraph

1984 - 1987

Broadcaster for Radio 2KY and 2UE, Sydney

1984 - 1988

Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on AIDS (NACAIDS)

1984 - 1988

Publishing consultant to Women's Day and Portfolio magazines

1988

Editor-in-chief of The Sun-Herald

1988 - 1994

Chief Executive Officer of Capricorn Publishing Pty Ltd

13 June 1988

Appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

1989 - 1994

Editor of ITA Magazine

1990 - 1994

Director of the Australia Advisory Board

1990 - 1996

Director of the Prudential Corporation Trust Australia

1991 - 1992

Director of Television & Telecasters Pty Ltd

1991 - 1994

Chairman of AIDS Trust Australia

1992

Awarded Hartnett Medal

1992 - 1993

President of Chief Executive Women

1995 - 1996

Broadcaster for Radio 2GB, Sydney

1995 - 1997

President of the National Opera Festival

1995 - 1998

Director of Buttrose and Dominguez Design

1997

TV Panelist for Beauty and the Beast on Foxtel and the Ten Network, Australia

1997 - 1998

Member of the Federal Government Conference for Older Australians

1997 - 1999

Chairman of the Australian Services Nurses' National Memorial Fund

1998

Member of the Alcohol Beverages Advertising Code Complaints Adjudication Panel

1998

Columnist for Courier Newspaper Group (Sydney)

1998

Director of The Smith Family, Australia

1999

Columnist for The Australian Women's Weekly

2000

GST Customer Advocate for Woolworths Supermarket chain

2000

Director of Terraplanet Ltd

2001

Chairman of Terraplanet Ltd

Sources used to compile this entry: Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's who in Australia 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2002, 2020 pp. pp. 347-48.; http://www.cew.org.au/view_profile.cfm?member=Ita%20Buttrose accessed 28/10/2002.