Reception
Gordon has earned various awards nominations for her portrayal of Martha. In 2006, Gordon won a Logie Award for "Most Popular New Female Talent". The 2009 ceremony saw Gordon nominated for "Most Popular Actress". Gordon was nominated for "Sexiest Female" and "Best Storyline" for Jack and Martha's wedding day at the 2007 Inside Soap Awards. The following year, Gordon was again nominated for "Sexiest Female", she also received a nomination for "Best Couple" along with co-star Paul O'Brien. Gordon was once again nominated for "Sexiest Female" in 2009. At the first Digital Spy Soap Awards, Gordon was nominated for "Sexiest Female" and "Best On-Screen Partnership" with O'Brien. At the 2009 Australian Cosmopolitan "Fun, Fearless Female Women of the Year awards", Gordon was nominated in the TV category.
Holy Soap describe Martha's most memorable moments as finding out she has cancer and that Jack (whom in their opinion was her true love) had been shot. Martha and Jack were included in Virgin Media's feature on the "Soaps' sexiest couples". Virgin Media said that the couple "loved getting hitched so much that they did it twice", and that they "had more hurdles to overcome than an Olympic athlete".
Jaci Stephen of British newspaper, the Daily Mail was negative towards Matha's love life, saying on one occasion "Guys get involved with Martha at their peril". She later said that "Martha forms an attachment with anything". In February 2010, Stephen commented on Martha's brief romance with Liam Murphy (Axle Whitehead). She said that Martha wastes no time in recovering from her personal tragedies, as she asks Liam to move in with her after he works on some fencing. Stephen added "It’s lucky women like Martha weren’t around when the Great Wall of China was being built. They’d still be on phase one". After Martha is blown up, lost in the bush and kidnapped; Stephen said "oh, for goodness sake, this is ridiculous - how much can one woman take?"
In 2010, it was announced that an episode of Home and Away featuring Martha and Liam had been was deemed too "raunchy" for New Zealand television. The Broadcasting Standards Authority decided to uphold a complaint about a scene between the characters, which saw them sharing a passionate kiss before Martha showed her bra. The scene was said to be too "sexually charged" for its G rating. This was the first time that a complaint about Home and Away's sexual content had been upheld. Ray Meagher later defended the scenes stating he didn't understand what all the fuss was about, branding it as tame compared to the scenes involving guns that aired previously.
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