| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Sarah Game | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MLC |
| Term Start: | 19 March 2022 |
| Predecessor: | John Darley |
| Alma Mater: | University of Sydney |
Sarah Game is an Australian politician. She has been a member of the South Australian Legislative Council since the 2022 state election, representing Pauline Hanson's One Nation.[1] [2]
Before her election in 2022, Game had been a veterinarian in a practice at South Brighton, a coastal suburb of Adelaide, since July 2021, using the name Sarah Wareing. She completed a Bachelor of Veterinary Science in 2006 at the University of Sydney in 2006 and lived in the United Kingdom for the next ten years, working as a biology teacher.[3] [4] She was One Nation's first member of the South Australian parliament.[1] She described herself as a "hard-working single mum of three children".[5]
Game grew up in a "separated family" in Sydney. At the time of her election in 2022, she had three children aged 7, 6 and 4, and was raising them as a single parent.[6]
Game does not support banning of foreign language teaching in schools (which had been a One Nation policy before the election), and she does not hold to strict interpretations of complex personal issues relating to abortion and transgender issues. She has Jewish heritage and was confirmed Catholic, but does not regard herself as religious, and chose to use the affirmation rather than religious oath at her swearing in to office. She has a strong focus on providing the best available education to all students regardless of their background, drawn from her own experience.[6]
In her inaugural speech to state parliament she declared her support for "sustainable, cohesive immigration to Australia".[7] David Ettridge, a founding member of One Nation, responded by claiming that Game held "Greens values" that could prompt a split from the party, adding "this is not what One Nation voters voted for".[8]
In 2022, Game supported moves to Ban the Nazi Swastika.[9] [10] [11]
Game has expressed her opposition to legislation that would establish an "indigenous voice to parliament" in South Australia, saying it would divide South Australians based on race, and that One Nation wants "real tangible benefits for all disadvantaged Australians".[12]
After the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum, in which over 64% of South Australians voted against the Voice, Game announced plans to introduce a bill to repeal the South Australian state based Voice with the First Nations Voice Act 2023 bill.[13]
Game's father Robert Game died on 2 February 2023 via suicide, following this, Game has voiced support for increased access to mental health resources particularly in regional South Australia.[14]
On the evening of 16 October 2024, Sarah Game attempted to take advantage of Michelle Lensinks breast cancer diagnoses in order to pass amendments to the Termination of Pregnancy Act (2021) by promising to pair her vote with her. This would have allowed for Michelle to be absent from the Legislative Council while undergoing cancer treatment and it not affect the outcome of the vote. Sarah Game then voted anyway in an attempt to tip the outcome in her favour. [15]
Shortly after, Michelle Lensink wrote the following on X (formally Twitter): “I don’t understand what happened tonight, but as someone who thought they had a pair from parliament, I had One Nation’s Sarah Game lie to me on the phone that she would pair me on the termination laws. It shows how desperate (and un-Australian) some people are in this debate.”