The Parata family are the first Māori whanau to join Australian soap opera Home And Away.
Drovers Run, Weld and now Summer Bay – Bridie Carter has found a home in some of Australasian television’s most memorable places, but it’s New Zealand that has a piece of her heart. “I would go to New Zealand in a second,” she confesses, during a chat about her new role as
Home And Away’s Susie MacAllister. “My children want to move there. I’ve never heard them say that ever but any chance they could get to go to New Zealand when I was working there they would go. My husband loves it as well.”