Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 07 August
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
The Fifth Estate is the Wheeler Centre’s new series of fortnightly forums: a more measured approach to news and current affairs. Provocative and studied, authoritative and unhurried, this is real analysis that will be pulling no punches. Hosted by broadcaster, journalist and anthropologist Sally Warhaft, the Fifth Estate is indispensible live journalism. All events are recorded, with podcast episodes posted on our website by noon the following day.
Although many doors have swung open for women in the last half-century, the promise that women can ‘have it all’ seems to be more of a failed joke than a genuine goal.
How have things changed for women in this defining period? Is misogyny a distant memory, or a still-present problem? And what of modern manners – is there such a thing?
Magazine queen and media legend Ita Buttrose will talk about the gender revolution, and reflect on her decades of experience working in the media. At this time of tumult and technological change, she’ll talk about where she sees the future – drawing on the lessons of the past.
Don’t miss this incisive evening with host Sally Warhaft and Australian icon Ita Buttrose.
Featuring
Sally Warhaft
Sally Warhaft is a Melbourne broadcaster, anthropologist and writer. She is the host of The Fifth Estate, the Wheeler Centre’s live series focusing on journalism, politics, media, and international relations, and The Leap Year ...
Ita Buttrose
Ita Buttrose became the first woman to ever edit a major metropolitan newspaper in Australia when she was appointed editor-in-chief of News Limited‘s Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. She later became Editor-in-Chief of Fairfax Media’s Sun-Herald, having worked as a senior feature writer on Fairfax’s now defunct Sun newspaper and as publishing consultant to Fairfax magazines.
She launched ITA magazine for The Woman Who Wasn’t Born Yesterday, and hosted prime-time radio shows for Sydney’s 2UE, 2KY and 2UE. She is the author of 11 books.
Ita has championed major causes and is currently the national president of Alzheimer’s Australia. She chaired the National Advisory Committee on AIDS, was national president of Arthritis Australia and served as a director of the Australian Prostate Cancer Foundation. Ita has chaired the National Breast Cancer Centre’s Advisory Network, and is patron of the Australian Macular Degeneration Foundation.
Ita’s latest book is A Passionate Life. In this, Ita offers a new perspective on a brilliant and demanding career, writes about her new pursuits and interests, reflects on the importance of family and of female friends, and challenges some of the media attitudes to other prominent women such as Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.