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Celebrated publisher, author, speaker, facilitator and MC

Ita Buttrose's extensive and impressive career in print, radio, and television has turned her into a household name. She has twice been voted as Australia's most admired woman.

An entertaining and inspirational speaker, excellent facilitator and impressive MC, she uses her on-the-job knowledge and experience to deliver presentations that inform, educate and inspire audiences to reach for their goals.  With a lively wit, Ita breezes through question and answer sessions with great humour and intelligence. Not surprisingly she is a much in-demand multi-media performer.

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Ita Buttrose joined the Australian Women's Weekly as a copy girl when she was just 15; at 33 she became the youngest-ever editor of The Australian Women's Weekly - a distinction she still holds.

Ita's early career was recently the subject of the highly-acclaimed ABC miniseries Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo in which she was portrayed by actress Asher Keddie.

When Rupert Murdoch appointed her Editor-in-Chief of Sydney's Daily & Sunday Telegraphs, she became the first woman to edit a major metropolitan daily newspaper in Australia. When she joined the board of News Limited Australia, she became the first Australian female director of this world-wide media group.

Ita later branched out on her own to set up Capricorn Publishing and later The Good Life Publishing Company, both of which published magazines that she created including ITA Magazine and in 2005, bark! a lifestyle magazine for dog owners and lovers. Under her guidance, Capricorn Publishing created the first TaxPack for the Australian Tax Office.

Currently she is host/interviewer of Ita's Musical Theatre on the Ovation Channel, is a regular social commentator on Channel Nine's Today Show and is Editor-at-Large of OK! Magazine. A prolific author, her autobiography, A Passionate Life, was a bestseller. Her most recent work, her tenth book, is A Guide to Australian Etiquette: For all Occasions, from Weddings to Work.

Ita Buttrose gives generously of her time to charitable and community causes and is currently patron of the Macular Degeneration Foundation, president of Alzheimer's Australia and vice president emeritus of Arthritis Australia. She was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for her services to the community especially in the field of public health education when she spearheaded Australia's HIV/AIDS Education Program. She was awarded an OBE for her services to journalism and a Centenary Medal for her leadership to Australian Society.

She was the first woman to be awarded the Hartnett Medal for community service and achievements in publishing, journalism, radio and television.