MaramaT-Pole (née Papau)
- Presenter
- Director
After graduating from NZ Broadcasting School, Marama T-Pole (formerly Papau) was a reporter and newsreader at 531PI and Nui FM. In 2005 she joined TV's Tagata Pasifika team. Since then she has presented stories on everything from PIs in Australia to Style Pasifika, aiming to report “through island eyes”. Of Tuvaluan/European heritage, she was the subject of a 2014 Tagata Pasifika report on Tuvaluan weddings.
Screenography
2015 Presenter Television
2015 Presenter Television
2011 Presenter, Co-Director Television
2007 Presenter Television
1987 - 2026 Reporter, Director Series
Awards
2011 Aotearoa Film and Television Awards
Nominated for Best Multi-Camera Broadcast: 2011 Polynesian Blue Pacific Music Awards
“Doing Pacific Island media in New Zealand I can really look at why things are like that, covering stories that matter to us instead of just the statistics.”
— Marama T-Pole, in a December 2011 Cook Islands Herald interview