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Sally Warren – List Candidate for the Women’s Rights Party

Sally Warren is a New Zealand chef, business owner, mother and wife. After years of unease about the erosion of women’s rights and safety — including in the hospitality industry where she has worked for 35 years — she joined the Women’s Rights Party. Sally talks about biological sex, language, workplace safety for women and

Raising a New Zealand Suffrage Flag at Parliament

Katrina Biggs and members of the Women’s Rights Party unveil a unique New Zealand suffrage flag, raised for the first time at New Zealand’s Parliament on 17 September 2026. Speakers mark the 1893 victory — NZ as the first self-governing country to give women the vote, including Māori women — and explain the white camellia

Historic flag raising commemorates Women’s Suffrage

For the first time ever, a Women’s Suffrage flag will be raised on the forecourt of Parliament. At 8.30am tomorrow [Thursday 17 September] a uniquely New Zealand flag symbolising the long struggle to win the right to vote by women, and some men, will be raised. Women’s Rights Party co-leader Jill Ovens says her Party,

Prue Hyman Speaks: NZ Politicians Must Not Attack Women’s Rights

Dawn Trenberth: How Albert Park Changed New Zealand Politics

Dawn Trenberth shares her journey from deep involvement with the New Zealand Labour Party to co-founding the Women’s Rights Party. She recounts her role as a Marshall at the 2023 “Let Women Speak” event in Auckland’s Albert Park, the shocking absence of police, the hostility and violence from counter-protesters, including unions and even MPs from

Why The Women’s Rights Party Exists

Jill Ovens, national Secretary and co-leader of New Zealand’s Women’s Rights Party, explains how she and others founded the independent Women’s Rights Party after her experiences at the Albert Park “Let Women Speak” event during Kellie-Jay Keen’s brief 2023 visit, which resulted in an immediate resignation from the Labour Party. Jill outlines the parties key

Women’s Rights Party opens its Election campaign today

The Women’s Rights Party opens its Election campaign today [Saturday, 27 June] as members celebrated the Party’s fourth Annual Conference on-line so members from all over New Zealand could participate. The Women’s Rights Party was founded in April 2023 after the shocking violence experienced by mostly women at Auckland’s “Let Women Speak” event in Albert

Our Submission On The Overseas Adoptions Legislation Bill

The Women’s Rights Party was formed in 2023 as a voice for women whose interests were being ignored by most sectors of society in the name of ‘inclusivity’. As a registered democratic political party that is advocating strongly for the interests of women and children, we are an organised force for change. The Women’s Rights