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Haurongo: Brew, Helen Jean

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Pae tukutuku

Close to home (1975)

Watch Helen Brew in the first episode of this pioneering New Zealand soap opera.

Birth with R.D. Laing (1977)

Watch Helen Brew’s documentary at NZ On Screen.

Rārangi pukapuka

Helen Brew interview, 1992. Neville Glasgow, ‘Directions’, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision, 15867. Listen online.

Helen Brew interview, 1996. Deborah Shepard, Reframing women project, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision, A0571.

Brew, Helen. ‘The making of a parent’. In Early childhood in New Zealand. Eds. Brian O’Rourke and John Clough. Auckland, 1978, pp.39–52.

Burnett, Lynda. ‘A woman of influence’. Kiwiparent, Apr/May 2013, pp.36–7.

Dobbie, Mary. The trouble with women: the story of Parents Centre New Zealand. Whatamongo Bay, 1990.

Kedgley, Sue. Mum’s the word: the untold story of motherhood in New Zealand. Auckland, 1996.

Shepard, Deborah. Reframing women: a history of New Zealand film. Auckland, 2000.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Elizabeth Cox. 'Brew, Helen Jean', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2020. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/231169/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).