Martin Portus has managed media and communication strategies for five organisations, including the launch of the National Museum of Australia, for the University of Sydney’s Conservatorium of Music, Parramatta City Council and the Australia Council for the Arts.  
At Parramatta City Council Martin was also employed as senior policy/political adviser to three Lord Mayors.  Most recently, he completed a one-year contract where he reinvented the branding, media and partnership strategies for the Commonwealth’s new Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).  
NIDA trained, his first career was as a television and stage actor in Sydney and Adelaide. Later, with a BA from Adelaide University, he studied a post-graduate diploma of journalism at City University in London.  After freelancing in London, Martin worked in Sydney as an arts journalist and critic for Fairfax Media, mostly the SMH, before joining the ABC in 1989.
From 1989–2000,  Martin was an ABC TV and Radio National arts broadcaster and producer - presenter of Arts National, presenter of Performance (a specialist performing arts program) and producer/presenter of Arts Today.  
Martin continues to work as a theatre and dance critic, a freelance journalist and a PR and media strategy consultant. He also works for the performing arts advocacy organisation, Currency House. Martin is a  director of Currency and a media and editorial advisor, notably in promoting and steering the quarterly Platform Papers and quarterly Creative and Business Breakfast addresses at the MCA.
He has also served on the boards of the Sydney Star Observer, the ACT AIDS Council and the Street Theatre in Canberra.
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