Jill and Sean talk about NZ's new Women's Rights Party.

Nearly there! The new Women’s Rights Party NZ’s goal of having 500 financial members by mid-July this year, in order to register as a political party before the upcoming General Election in October, is within a whisker of being achieved. Very exciting.  

Why register as a political party, rather than just be an advocacy/activist group? According to the elections.nz blurb, a registered political party can contest the party vote, have their registered logo on the voting paper, and access broadcasting funds for advertising on television and radio.

Not mentioned in the elections.nz blurb, is also the fact that a political party may even be able put up a billboard with the word ‘woman’ on it, and not get it taken down when the virally woke lose their shite over it, which they inevitably will.

Jill Ovens, co-founder of the WRP, acknowledges that the effect of the party at this early stage, and this close to the General Election, will mainly be that of delivering a message to our current batch of politicians in Parliament. The message being that there are women and men in NZ unhappy enough with the main political parties, who have abandoned women’s rights in order to prioritise radical gender ideology, to consider giving a party vote to a minor party who upholds those rights. However, the WRP is not just a reactionary party, but one which has nutted out solid policies to stand by, and one which women can trust to be there for them.

NZ’s Ministry for Women, for example, is no longer a trustworthy advocate for women, as they state that they regard men who say they’re women as being women. The clash of rights between men who say they’re women, and women, was never more obvious than the deafening silence from the Ministry for Women about the violence against women at Albert Park in Auckland on March 25 when Kellie-Jay Keen came to town. In fact, not one politician in Parliament spoke out against that violence against women, either. It was a devastating let down, and one which Jill, like many of us, find hard to forgive.

Recruitment for the WRP has been via social media and word of mouth for the most part. The media has remained resolutely mute about this new party for women, so there has been no publicity from that quarter. Jill has drawn on her previous skills as a journalist to write weekly press releases about topical matters since the WRP’s inception, but to date no mainstream media has acknowledged any of them, nor the party itself. This is not really a surprise, but further indication of the media malaise in this country, which seems to have allowed the virus of woke bias to change its very DNA.   

The Platform, founded by Sean Plunket, is amongst the vanishingly rare media who will platform those who dare to diverge from the woke agenda. The Platform has plenty on its’ programmes which I don’t go along with, but I accept that more now as a normal state of affairs than having no dissension at all. This conversation between Jill and Sean is not only an engaging and informative listen, but engendered a surge of paid party memberships - which is $5 - to within sight of the magic number of 500.

Jill Ovens on aiming to get the Women's Rights Party on the ballot - YouTube

Membership sign up - Women's rights matter (womensrightsparty.nz)

Listen here for a previous chat between Jill and Meghan Murphy – Feminist Current podcast talks with Jill Ovens (womensrightsparty.nz)