New party’s leader visits

A new party is seeking parliamentary presence through the party vote.

When the election rolls around next month the Women’s Rights Party aims to be part of the political mix.

The party focuses on issues that directly affect women and girls. Its main platform is that sex is binary and human beings cannot change sex. On its website it outlines it is a party of women and men who believe in democracy, equality and biological reality.

Party leader Jill Ovens arrived in North Otago and stopped in Oamaru yesterday as part of the party’s road trip around the country.

Nine people appeared at the Oamaru Opera House in support of the cause.

The goal of the road trip was to set up local organising groups in towns and cities across New Zealand, and the main goal of the party was to reach the 5% threshold to get into Parliament, Ms Ovens said.