Buttrose
Buttrose is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ita Buttrose (born 1942), Australian journalist and businesswoman * Larry Buttrose (born 1952), Australian writer, journalist, and academic * Stroma Buttrose (born 1929), Australian architect See also * Butters (surname) Butters is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bill Butters (born 1951), retired World Hockey Association and National Hockey League player *Charles Butters (1854–1933), American metallurgist, engineer, and mine owner * Frank Butt ...

Ita Buttrose
Ita Clare Buttrose (born 17 January 1942) is an Australian TV network chairperson, television and radio personality, author and former magazine editor, publishing executive and newspaper journalist. She was the founding editor of ''Cleo'', a high-circulation magazine aimed at women aged 20 to 40 that was frank about sexuality (and, in its infancy, featured nude male centrefolds) and, later, the editor of the more conventional ''The Australian Women's Weekly''. She was the youngest person to be appointed editor of ''The Weekly'', which was then, per capita, the largest-selling magazine in the world. Buttrose was a panelist on the Network Ten morning program ''Studio 10'' from 2013 until 2018. In 2019 Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Buttrose as the new chair of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Early life Buttrose was born at Potts Point, Sydney, and named after her maternal grandmother, Ita Clare Rodgers (née Rosenthal), pronounced (rhyming with 'figh ...
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Larry Buttrose
Larry Philip Buttrose (born 16 December 1952) is an Australian writer, journalist and academic. He is the ghostwriter of the Saroo Brierley memoir '' A Long Way Home'' (adapted for the screen as the major international feature film ''Lion''). Personal life Buttrose was born in Adelaide, South Australia. At the age of 17 he co-founded the poetry magazine ''Dharma'' (later titled ''Real Poetry'') with his then partner Donna Maegraith and friend Stephen Measday. While at university he trained as a journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and after graduating he worked as a freelance journalist. He gained his PhD from the University of Adelaide in 2011. He now lives in Sydney with his wife and two children. Career Buttrose published his first collection of poems, ''One Steps Across The Rainbow'' in 1974, at the age of 21. His first major collection, ''The Leichhardt Heater Journey'' (1982), was the first title in the long-running Friendly Street Poets series. He al ...
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Stroma Buttrose
Stroma Buttrose (20 October 1929 – 26 February 2020) was an Australian architect, who became the first female Planning Assistant in South Australia, joining the Town Planners Office in 1957 (later called the State Planning office). Buttrose is considered to be a pioneering figure of women in architecture, as she was the first female Commissioner of the Planning Appeal Board, as well as being the author of numerous architectural publications, most notably City Planning in Australia in 1975. Buttrose supervised the Gawler Land Use Survey, as well as the Willunga Land Use Survey, both areas covering approximately 100 by 40 kilometres. She was also instrumental in the production of the Development Plan for the Metropolitan Area of Adelaide, which was published in 1963. In 1973, Buttrose was the first woman to be appointed Commissioner of the Town Planning Appeal Board/Tribunal, which later became the Environment, Resources and Development Court. Early life Buttrose's interest i ...
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