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Louisa Lawson

Home page Hero: January 2025

Louisa Lawson was the first woman in Australia to own and operate a printing and publishing company.

She purchased a going concern in 1888 in order to print The Dawn, her suffragette journal through which she became a powerful advocate for women’s rights, leaving a legacy that continues to inspire generations of women in print.

She was well known at the time for hiring and training women, and boasted an all female team of compositors and typesetters, facing significant harassment from Unions and Associations in the industry alike.

The Dawn was a commercial success across Australia and Internationally, and Louisa leaves a legacy as a printer, publisher, poet, writer and is therefore our Home Page Hero for January 2025.

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Rita Karagiannis

Account Director,
IVE Group Data-Driven Communications

Rita is an Account Director at IVE Group in the Data-Driven Communications business. With twenty years’ experience in mail and data communications Rita has built an expansive career across operations and productions into strategic sales and client service roles. With a Bachelor of Business in Information Systems, Rita offers her team and clients operational and technical expertise into her account management and customer solutions approach. IVE Group is well recognised for building strong female leadership programs and Rita has embraced this enthusiastically with recent graduation of a Leader Factor 4 – Stages of Psychological Leadership program. Rita is a passionate, intelligent and deliverable-centric individual who currently holds the Women in Print – Victorian Patron role.