Ita Buttrose named Australian of the Year

By Jacqueline Maley
Updated January 25 2013 - 7:13pm, first published 7:04pm
Ita Buttrose ... Australian of the Year 2013.
Ita Buttrose ... Australian of the Year 2013.

It's Ita. Former copy girl, journalist, famous lisper, editor-extraordinaire. The woman who, as editor of the Australian Women's Weekly, liked to catch the bus to work because bus trips were an excellent time to read and touch up nail polish. The lady - because she is a real lady - whose brains and strength of character saw her become the first female appointment to the News Ltd board (she said she "often felt lonely"). The single working mother who rejoiced when retail trading hours were extended in 1984 because it had been such a terrible rush, cramming all that kid-ferrying and shopping into short Saturday mornings.

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