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 policy priorities, including reversing self-ID, reforming conversion-practices laws, protecting sex-based exceptions in the Human Rights Act, and ensuring clear language in healthcare.
She shares her personal path into the issue through her work with the Midwives Union, and finally, she outlines how strategically voting for a women’s sex-based rights party is the only way to signal concern for women’s rights, privacy, dignity and spaces this Election ’26.