New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Indigenous gam e-changer ‘THE STORIES THAT MUST BE TOLD’

‘I was starting to question my own self-worth – all of those feelings come with grief’

Award-winning journalist Qiane Matata-Sipu has spent the last three years creating a precious taonga that she hopes will leave a lasting legacy for her four-year-old daughter Haeata te Kapua.

The author and photographer of Nuku: Stories of 100, a book and podcast celebrating unsung heroes, was recently long-listed for a Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award, and won the Arts and Culture section of the 2021 Women of Influence Awards.

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