Buttrose, Ita Clare | AWR

Summary

On 10 June 2019, Ita Buttrose was appointed Companion (AC) in the General Division, Order of Australia for eminent service to the community through leadership in the media, the arts, and the health sector, and as a role model. On 13 June 1988, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to the community, particularly in the fields of medical education and health care. In the Queen’s Birthday list 1979 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for service to journalism. She became the first woman to be awarded the Harnett Medal for community service and achievements in publishing, journalism, radio and television.

Details

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

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Events

1979 - 1979
Appointed the Order of the British Empire – Officer (Civil)
1975 - 1976
Editor of the Australian Women’s Weekly
1972 - 1975
Founding editor of Cleo
1990 - 1996
Director of the Prudential Corporation Trust Australia
1990 - 1994
Director of the Australia Advisory Board
1998 - 1998
Director of The Smith Family, Australia
1997 - 1999
Chairman of the Australian Services Nurses’ National Memorial Fund
1997 - 1998
Member of the Federal Government Conference for Older Australians
1995 - 1997
President of the National Opera Festival
1992 - 1993
President of Chief Executive Women
1988 - 1988
Appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
2042 - 2042
Born daughter of Charles Oswald and Mary Clare (née Rodgers) Buttrose
2001 - 2001
Chairman of Terraplanet Ltd
2000 - 2000
Director of Terraplanet Ltd
2000 - 2000
GST Customer Advocate for Woolworths Supermarket chain
1999 - 1999
Columnist for The Australian Women’s Weekly
1998 - 1998
Columnist for Courier Newspaper Group (Sydney)
1998 - 1998
Member of the Alcohol Beverages Advertising Code Complaints Adjudication Panel
1997 - 1997
TV Panelist for Beauty and the Beast on Foxtel and the Ten Network, Australia
1995 - 1998
Director of Buttrose and Dominguez Design
1995 - 1996
Broadcaster for Radio 2GB, Sydney
1984 - 1987
Broadcaster for Radio 2KY and 2UE, Sydney
1988 - 1994
Chief Executive Officer of Capricorn Publishing Pty Ltd
1989 - 1994
Editor of ITA Magazine
1988 - 1988
Editor-in-chief of The Sun-Herald
1981 - 1984
Editor-in-chief of the The Daily Telegraph and of the The Sunday Telegraph
1976 - 1981
Editor-in-chief of the Australian Women’s Weekly and of Cleo
1984 - 1988
Publishing consultant to Women’s Day and Portfolio magazines
1981 - 1981
Appointed Board member of News Ltd, Australia
1978 - 1981
Director of the K G Murray Leisure Group
2001 - 2001
Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women
1991 - 1994
Chairman of AIDS Trust Australia
1984 - 1988
Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on AIDS (NACAIDS)
1991 - 1992
Director of Television & Telecasters Pty Ltd
1992 - 1992
Awarded Hartnett Medal
1970 - 2000
2019 - 2019
Companion (AC) in the General Division, Order of Australia: For eminent service to the community through leadership in the media, the arts, and the health sector, and as a role model.
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Published resources

Edited Book
- Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002
Article
- Service nurses honoured with long awaited memorial, 1999
Site Exhibition
- The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html
- Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html
- The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders
Resource
- Trove: Buttrose, Ita (1942-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-487813

Archival resources

National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
- Papers of Meredith Hinchliffe, 1957-1981 [manuscript]

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