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PJ Madam
PJ Madam (born Peta-Jane Madam) is an Australian journalist, television news presenter and documentary film maker. She has worked in a variety of roles on-air and behind the scenes, for three of the major broadcasters in Australia including Channel Seven, Channel Nine and SBS.

She is the Co-Founder of Wildman Films, an Australia production company that produced the docu-series Extreme Engagement for Netflix.

Early Life
Born in Mackay, north Queensland on 18 June 1980, Madam is fiercely proud of her small town roots. Her mother is Irish-Danish and a retired music teacher while her father is Malay-Indonesian and a talented lead guitarist and former draftsman. Her parents met playing in a rock-and-roll band and were married in 1967. She has an older sister and two older brothers who are also musical. Madam started played the piano when she was 4 years old but wanted to rebel against her musical family and believed the only way she could achieve that was by quitting the piano at age 17. She hasn't touched a keyboard since. She was raised Catholic. At school, she was conscious of her mixed-race, mixed-heritage and mixed-cultural background and was often teased for being different. This gave her drive and she threw herself into school and extracurricular activities, including speech and drama and athletics.

Education
Madam attended St Patrick’s College where she was School Captain. She then moved to Brisbane to study a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Politics and Communications at the University of Queensland. Her part-time job was working at one of the oldest buildings in Queensland: the Parliament House. There, she became the youngest attendant in the state’s history helping politicians during sitting weeks.

After finishing her Arts degree, she enrolled in a Diploma in Business majoring in Public Relations at the Queensland University of Technology. During this time, she had several job offers from local politicians including the Transport Minister Paul Lucas and began working for him as a junior Media Advisor.

Madam then enrolled in a Journalism Certificate, also at Queensland University of Technology, finally graduating in 2004.

Journalism
Madam began her journalism career while working in state government, as a freelance writer on the side contributing to small in-house public service publications. She then won a national cadetship with the Nine Network in Sydney. Approximately 600 students applied for the job and Madam was one of 2 people to have secured a position.

As a reporter and producer, Madam spent years on the road covering general news along with producing and lining up daily bulletins. In 2008, she made the move to the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), where she worked as a reporter, producer (both in the field and lining up bulletins) and nightly news anchor for World News Australia. In 2010, Madam won a Mackellar Award for a 7-part series she produced and hosted about Australia's emerging food crisis.

Madam was then poached by the Seven Network to become a handful of exclusive reporters for their flagship program Sunday Night (a long form current affairs show) travelling the globe covering hard-hitting exclusives, social stories and interviewing people from politicians and terrorists to criminals and celebrities such as the late Jerry Lewis, David Frost, and Florence Henderson and Robbie Williams, One Direction, Meghan Trainor, Creedence Clear Water Revival and Jon Bon Jovi. Madam also anchored the news for the highest rating breakfast show Weekend Sunrise. In 2017, she won a United Nation’s Media Award for her investigation into sexual assault on campus across Australian universities. In this landmark investigation, the journalist exercised her Freedom of Information rights to be granted access to the number of reported cases of assault across all Universities - making it the first story of its kind in the country.

Wildman Films
Late 2016, Madam was keen to leave the Networks and create her own content. Her partner, Tim Noonan also felt the same. They devised a plan to establish their own production company and called it Wildman Films. Extreme Engagement is Wildman Films’ maiden docu-series and the first unscripted Netflix Original Series for an Australian production company. It took two years to produce and launched in July 2019. What made this show unique was that PJ and Tim researched, produced, filmed and presented in the 8-part series on their own, without a traditional crew, which saw them test their relationship in different pre-marriage rituals around the world.

Personal
Madam was married to award-winning political journalist, author, and The Australian’s National Affairs Editor, Simon Benson. They divorced in 2013. Madam became engaged to award-winning filmmaker Tim Noonan in December 2014. She is an ambassador for Endometriosis Australia having suffered it throughout her 20's.