Lisa Wilkinson

There has never been a time more crucial than now to address the needs faced by Australia’s 46 000 homeless women.

I am proud to support the Women’s Subscription Enterprise, which helps give homeless women the financial independence and skills they need to break the cycle of poverty and build a better future for themselves and in many cases, their children.

You too have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the lives of these women in our community. By purchasing a subscription to The Big Issue magazine you will ensure positive and life changing opportunities are provided to the country’s most disadvantaged and vulnerable women… and what’s more, you will also get a great read!

Lisa Wilkinson, co-host of the Nine Network’s TODAY Show, is one of Australia’s most admired and respected journalists, female mentors and TV presenters.

Lisa’s media career got off to an astonishing start when she was appointed editor of the national women’s magazine Dolly at the age of 21 where, after four years at the helm, she had almost tripled the circulation. It was then, at the insistence of the late Kerry Packer, Lisa was offered the editorship of Cleo, going on to run the magazine for a record breaking ten years, as well as becoming its International Editor In Chief, running editions in New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

Since then Lisa has continued to successfully apply her journalistic talents as a consultant to magazine publishers both in Australia and around the world, as well as moving into television and radio, culminating three years ago in the offer for Lisa to become co-host of the Today Show. The show is now enjoying its most successful ratings run in recent history.

Along with her extremely busy career, Lisa somehow manages to combine it all with her marriage to fellow journalist and author Peter Fitzsimons and together they have three young children.

In 2010 Lisa attended a Women In Business luncheon hosted by The Big Issue in Sydney, where she threw her support behind a new initiative that uses a model selling subscriptions to The Big Issue magazine to address the needs of some of Australia’s 46 000 homeless women.