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Name: Helen Brown and Helen Brown Gentry Email address: Nationality: New Zealander currently living in Australia Date of Birth: 15th March 1954 Biography Awards

Journalist:

• The Dominion, Wellington, New Zealand
• Woking Review, United Kingdom
• Broadcasts to Schools, Radio New Zealand
• “Beauty and the Beast” regular panelist, Television New Zealand
• Agony aunt on children’s television programme “What Now?”
• Script writer for television soap operas “Close to Home” and “Country GP”
• Sunday Star, Auckland, New Zealand – (1988-97) feature writer, editorial writer and columnist

Columnist: 1978-2008 syndicated weekly newspaper column, currently appearing in

• Waikato Times
• Wanganui Chronicle
• Christchurch Star
• Marlborough Express
• Timaru Herald
• Wairarapa Times Age
• LIVE magazine

1997-2008 monthly Trans Tasman column in Next magazine