Kathleen Lauderdale

Kathleen Lauderdale is a mother of three, journalist, and manager with experience in breast cancer support and advocacy, tutoring, and foster care.

Kath was elected to the Green Party’s policy committee, where she worked on developing policies, particularly in economic areas such as a wealth tax and sovereign money. She left the committee in 2017.

Kath says that, alongside what she describes as sexist behaviour and policy within the Green Party, she became increasingly concerned about the economic pressures of the emerging cost-of-living crisis. She stood as the New Plymouth candidate for Social Credit in the 2020 election, where she was list number four and says the party doubled its vote locally.

Kath says she later felt politically homeless as a woman and is now pleased to stand for the Women’s Rights Party, which she says is more closely aligned with her values and with women’s issues that have been central to her work for decades.