New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Barbara’s Hard News

For the past 21 years, Barbara Dreaver has been TVNZ’s face of the Pacific. She’s been arrested and threatened; interviewed kings, leaders and refugees; been accused of spying, and exposed a Samoan adoption scam. She’s won awards and changed the course of lives.

Barbara grew up barefoot and happy in Kiribati. Her father was a New Zealand teacher stationed there and her Kiribati-born mother had 11 siblings. Barbara has cousins throughout the Pacific, including Fiji, the Solomon Islands and Tonga.

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