Ita Buttrose will not stand for a second term as the chair of the ABC when her five-year term ends in March next year. Rowland said that Buttrose was “the right chair for the right time.”“Ms Buttrose is a giant of Australia’s media industry, and the Government thanks her for her exemplary service as chair of the ABC. “I’m mulling it over,” she told ABC Melbourne’s Virginia Trioli, “I’ve found the ABC very challenging, but very enjoyable. Danny Gilbert, the co-founder of law firm Gilbert + Tobin, is also reportedly in the frame having been closely considered for the chair role when Malcolm Turnbull was PM. The first order of business for the new ABC chair will be to make a decision on managing director David Anderson whose five-year tenure is up in May.