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    Tim Powell

    Tim Powell
    Managing Director

    Tim has 25 years’ experience working in journalism, politics, public affairs and marketing, and remains a hands-on consultant working on specific...

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    Kate Leahy
    Senior Consultant

    Since joining Cox Inall in 2007, Kate has worked on a range of Government and Agribusiness projects for clients wanting to engage with rural and...

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    Angela Jackson

    Angela Jackson
    Senior Consultant

    Angela Jackson joined Cox Inall in 2005 and brings 18 years of broad communications experience to the agency.

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    Ellen McNamara

    Ellen McNamara
    Consultant

    Ellen McNamara joined Cox Inall Communications in August 2011 as a member of the Agribusiness and Natural Resources team. She has worked in the...

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    Rachel Bowman
    Senior Consultant

    Rachel has extensive experience leading campaigns linking primary producers with the latest research and development information.

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    Justine Mackay
    Senior Consultant

    Justine Mackay joined Cox Inall in July 2011 and has an extensive background in communications, stakeholder management, public relations and...

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    Alyce Cowan

    Alyce Cowan
    Associate Consultant

    Alyce Cowan brings exceptional communication skills, organisational abilities and writing skills to the Cox Inall team.

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    Sally Fraser

    Sally Fraser
    Group Account Director

    Sally Fraser has over 20 years’ experience as a journalist and public relations professional in finance, retail, transport and logistics,...

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    Kaaren Latham

    Kaaren Latham
    Senior Consultant

    Kaaren has an ability to distil complex concepts into simple compelling messages, and a thorough understanding of both metropolitan and regional...

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    Angus Rutherford
    Consultant

    Angus joined Cox Inall in August 2010 and is a member of the Agribusiness and Natural Resources team. He provides support across clients such as...

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    Michael Thomson

    Michael Thomson
    Senior Consultant

    Michael Thomson brings more than 10 years of experience as a rural and political journalist, as well as multimedia skills as a former national online...

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    Penny Rose
    Senior Consultant

    Penny Rose has pursued a diverse international public relations career, bringing to Cox Inall Communications almost 10 years’ marketing and public...

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    Natalie Lee
    Senior Consultant

    Natalie Lee has been working with Cox Inall Communications since 2009, acting as Western Region Communicator for the Grains Research and Development...

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    Lucy Broad

    Lucy Broad
    Director

    Lucy Broad has more than 20 years experience as a journalist and broadcaster, extensive relationships with the Australian media and a wide network of...

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    Belinda Toward
    Senior Consultant

    Belinda Toward has strong experience in both business to consumer and business to business communications, with expertise in technology, retail and...

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    Abigail Hempfling

    Abigail Hempfling
    Consultant

    Abby Hempfling is a media relations specialist with experience in the finance, retail, food, government and telecommunications sectors.

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    Suzanne Lewis

    Suzanne Lewis
    Senior Consultant

    A rural issues specialist, Suzanne is skilled in effectively communicating the developments in primary industry production across relevant target...

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About Us

Cox Inall Communications is a strategic public relations consulting business.  We service corporate, Government and community clients.

We are best known for our work in agribusiness and natural resource management.

Increasingly we work up and down the supply chain to help clients in food and grocery, in transport, in finance to engage with consumers, communities, Governments and the media.

The company was founded in 1986 by former ABC broadcaster Neil Inall and well-known supporter of the performing arts, Tim Cox AO.

We are now a company of 20 consultants with staff based in Sydney, Brisbane, Rockhampton, Albury and Dumbleyung in WA.

Cox Inall is part of the BWM Group alongside Australia’s leading independent advertising agency Belgiovane Williams Mackay.

Cox Inall is a professional and ethical PR company. We are a member of the Public Relations Institute of Australia’s Registered Consultancies Group.

  • May 24, 2013 - A closer look at crop sequencing

            With wheat-on-wheat cropping a distant memory for most northern region grain growers, cropping programs are evolving again to embrace open-ended crop sequences. Depending on individual paddock conditions, the season and pest and disease risks, growers are being urged to consider crop options that will foster productivity through long-term soil health. Sharon [...] Read more...

    May 23, 2013 - Target wild radish early

            Targeting wild radish as early as the label will allow and mixing herbicide modes of action (MOA) are keys to effective weed control and optimising grain yields. This has been backed-up by findings from two separate GRDC-funded projects conducted in the central and northern Wheatbelt regions last year. Trials in Bolgart [...] Read more...

    May 22, 2013 - Barley varieties more susceptible to powdery mildew

            Monitoring of all Western Australian barley crops for powdery mildew disease and careful fungicidal management including the use of seed dressings will reduce the risk of yield losses this season, with commonly grown varieties found to have an increased susceptibility to the disease. Recent rainfall could favour the development of powdery [...] Read more...

    May 21, 2013 - Growers benefit from pulse research

            A new collaborative research project across northern NSW will bring northern region grain growers closer to maintaining healthy levels of pulse crops in their winter rotations. Dr Guy McMullen, NSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) research leader at Tamworth Agricultural Institute (TAI) says the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)-funded [...] Read more...

    May 21, 2013 - Watch for crop residue tying up soil-applied herbicides

            A leading United States-based researcher has brought key messages from his research on the interaction of crop residue and soil-applied herbicides directly to Australian graingrowers. Dr Dale Shaner, retired US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) plant physiologist and weed scientist addressed the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) Updates [...] Read more...