[4] From 1981, Murray was principal of Jan Murray & Associates Pty Ltd––a public relations firm that handled a variety of high-profile campaigns, including the spectacular Gala Opening of the Gold Coast International Hotel, and the Australian Tourism Commission's Shrimp on the barbie advertisements featuring Australian actor Paul Hogan, which was overseen by her then-husband, Minister for Tourism, John Brown.
The consultancy was also involved in other aspects of public relations and was able to have the Bjelkie-Petersen government contribute $10million to save the still-incomplete Mike Gore Sanctuary Cove development.
The appreciative Mr Gore had Murray accompany him in his helicopter the day it flew over the vast property at the moment the dam was opened to allow the water to flood in to the completed and spectacular resort.
In the following weeks, Murray was appointed to the Lord Mayor's Bushfire Appeal Trust which had the responsibility to disseminate the funds––mainly to purchase upgraded firefighting equipment––and made certain at least $250,000 went towards wildlife rescue.
Following initial reports in The Sun, Murray admitted during a 60 Minutes interview in 1987 to having sexual intercourse with her husband on his desk in his office at Parliament House in Canberra in 1983, and leaving her knickers in an ashtray.
[13] When Channel Nine approached the controversial Jan Murray for their 60 Minutes story, as an avowed feminist, she accepted on the condition she be given means to make the point that the role of the 'dutiful minister's wife' was not for her.
Nine filmed Murray for three days as she went about organizing the Gala Lunch for Bjelksie-Petersen during the opening of the Gold Coast International Hotel and she was also interviewed by Mike Monroe at her home and at the Lobby Restaurant in Canberra.
However, the network heavily edited out all of Murray's feminist discussion, in which she had emphasised she had travelled to Canberra that night to seek her conjugal rights, not as the media would portray it, 'celebrating Brown's rise to the ministry'.