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Flat White

She’s tackled everything, but can Ita tame the ABC?

27 February 2019

10:47 AM

27 February 2019

10:47 AM

In the halcyon days of magazines in Sydney in the seventies, one name was spoken with admiration tinged with –admit it – envy.

The name was Ita Buttrose. She had not quite then reached the heights of media glamour with the Australian Women’s Weekly but she was the brains and charisma behind a new star in the Australian media heavens, a magazine called Cleo.

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