New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Goals, gifts & gratitude Miriama’s 50 Promise

Miriama Kamo has been a regular fixture on our screens since she joined TVNZ back in 2002.

She’s an award-winning broadcaster, writer, speaker and environmental advocate, and the host of TVNZ 1’s flagship current affairs programme Sunday and Māori current affairs programme Marae. She’s also Patron (Te Koruru) of the New Zealander of the Year Awards, an ambassador for several charities, runs a mentoring scheme for young Māori journalists and is also a published author with a number of books in the works.

By anyone’s standards, it’s a long list of achievements. But as Miriama prepares to celebrate her 50th birthday this month, she’s not sitting back or slowing down. In fact, she’s doing the opposite.

“I’ve always celebrated the ‘zero’ birthdays and I’ve always felt that 50 would be my

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