AFL hall of famer joins Sarah Game’s Fair Go
The co-founder of the Little Heroes Foundation and an AFL hall of famer has joined Sarah Game’s political party for the upcoming state election.
Little Heroes Foundation co-founder and Crows football legend Chris McDermott has been announced as Fair Go for Australians’ candidate for the electorate of Dunstan in the upcoming state election.
McDermott is one of SA’s top not-for-profit business leaders and a close associate of Game. He has been involved in assisting with her men’s mental health advocacy initiatives.
Game announced McDermott’s candidacy, saying “small parties can do great things”.
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It brings the number of Fair Go candidates to 15, with Game noting she hopes to have around 20 fighting for a spot in parliament after the March state election.
McDermott played for the Adelaide Football Club from 1991 to 1996 and was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours for services for Australian rules football.
He will battle it out against Labor’s sitting member Cressida O’Hanlon, the Liberal candidate Anna Finizio and Greens candidate Christel Mex.
Game established Fair Go in August 2025 after sensationally quitting One Nation in May, stating that stereotypes associated with the party had been “very limiting”.
“I think [for] anyone who knows me and that I’ve worked with professionally, that’s never been an issue they’ve had with me,” she said.
“I’ve got certainly great relationships with lots of people from different religious backgrounds and heritages, but in terms of being willing to publicly associate with the brand and support various advocacy areas, that has continued to hold people back.”
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Game told InDaily the party stands for “giving all South Australians a fair go.”
“What that means is that you’re rewarded for effort and hard work. So, it’s not favouring any particular group based on their ethnicity or gender, or filling certain boxes or discriminating against a certain group,” she said.
Game said that some issues the party would advocate for are incentivising landlords to put solar panels and batteries on their homes, “so that renters aren’t paying the highest electricity prices while they’re trying to get on a housing ladder”.
She said the party would also push for repealing the First Nations Voice to Parliament and “putting parents back in charge of how their children are educated”.
