For over 10 years, P&L Corporate Communications has partnered blue chip Australian and global clients, raising their profile and enhancing their corporate reputation.

Based in Sydney, P&L Corporate advises a wide selection of companies, regulators, and industry groups.

We provide sharp and tailored strategies to executives, managers and other industry leaders, developing concise messages for delivery to media, key stakeholders and employees.

Our team has a steadfast commitment to discretion which makes us trusted by both the media as well as advisers during transactions and crisis situations. 

 
 
Ian Pemberton

Ian Pemberton
Principal

Ian established P&L Corporate Communications in May 2007 after a 27 year career as an editor and reporter. With impressive local and international media contacts, he provides clients with significant opportunities to influence the debate. Ian has extensive expertise in corporate transactions, IPOs, communications strategy, and issues management.

Specialising in business and financial markets, Ian was Bureau Chief at Dow Jones, news editor at Reuters and finance editor at Australian Associated Press, with postings in New York and the Canberra press gallery. Between 2000 and April 2007 he led a reporting and editing team at Dow Jones Newswires, developing news and feature articles for subscribers and The Wall Street Journal.

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‭+61 402 256 576‬

Michelle Innis

MIchelle INnIs
senior consultant

Michelle is a senior communications consultant with extensive business and media contacts. She was previously The New York Times correspondent in Australia, worked at The Australian Financial Review, wrote for The Sydney Morning Herald Money section and did a stint on The Daily Telegraph.

She has written for The Far Eastern Economic Review and covered economics, State and Federal budgets, and bond and money markets for AAP-Reuters. Michelle worked at Macquarie Bank, as public relations manager, from 1994 to 2000. She also worked in Hong Kong, reporting for The South China Morning Post, and London, writing for Fleet Street newspapers. Michelle has excellent writing and editing skills, and news judgment.   

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Adrian Thirsk

ADRIAN THIRSK
Senior Consultant

Veteran broadcaster and business journalist Adrian Thirsk joined P&L Corporate Communications in March 2018 after a career spanning nearly three decades at the ABC where he was a radio and television stalwart. This included a record 16 years as a national finance reporter for ABC Radio News while his television credits featured six years as Supervising Producer at ABC TV's Lateline Business.

As a Senior Consultant at P&L he is responsible for many of the firm's investment, fintech and ASX-listed clients.

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SUE FROST
Senior Consultant

Sue was a business journalist for major Australian newspapers including the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age for more than 16 years. She covered a range of major business stories, initially as a daily reporter and later as a senior feature writer with a focus on media, telecommunications and marketing.

Sue also edited business pages and wrote about debt and derivatives in London for International Financing Review.

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Janine macdonald
Senior Consultant

Janine MacDonald is a strategic communications expert with broad experience across government, politics, universities and media.

She spent more than two decades in complex, highly-regulated and issues-rich environments including working as a policy adviser to two Government Ministers and as an adviser to the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Over the past 10 years, Janine held senior roles in two leading Australian universities and prior to that worked for leading papers in the Press Gallery in Canberra and in Western Australia.

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