Game vows to bring men’s wellbeing and abortion debate to parliament
Expect the abortion debate to return to parliament in the next four years as upper house MLC Sarah Game also looks to change the narrative around men’s wellbeing.
Legislative Councillor Sarah Game is looking to create the state’s first Parliamentary Friends of Men’s Wellbeing group with the hope of highlighting issues facing men and boys, saying she does not think men’s wellbeing is given enough attention.
Game, who sensationally quit One Nation last year, was also certain that a controversial abortion debate would return to parliament in the next four years.
“I think there’s still that misconception that men are privileged, and I don’t know how you can say that a group of people are privileged when they account for seven out of nine suicides – I mean, that doesn’t seem very privileged to me,” she said about men’s wellbeing.
“People ask me all the time, ‘Why do you advocate for men?’, ‘Do you not care about women and children?’, which is ridiculous. Obviously, I care about children, I care about women, and I care about men.
“This would be a forum where a whole lot of different men’s groups could come, they could network and connect in one place in parliament. But importantly, there’d be politicians from all sides that would gather and come to listen to them.”
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Game brought the Termination of Pregnancy (Restrictions of Termination after 22 Weeks and 6 Days) Amendment Bill – which was drafted with help from controversial law academic and anti-abortion campaigner Joanna Howe – to a vote last November.
The unsuccessful bill would have restricted access to late-term abortions to situations where there was a significant risk of foetal abnormalities, to save the life of the expectant mother or the life of another foetus.
It came after Liberal MLC Ben Hood’s bill, which would have required women seeking an abortion after 28 weeks to deliver their baby alive, was narrowly defeated in 2024.
“I’m obviously being quite vocal about the fact that I’m pro-life, from conception to birth,” Game said.
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“I don’t think we’re going to see the success of a bill like that, for example, over the next four years that I’ve got.
“But I would certainly support anyone who brought in a bill to wind back late-term abortion, and if they don’t bring one in, I would certainly be interested in bringing in one myself.”
Game hoped her new men’s wellbeing group would receive support from all sides of politics and was hoping to book a meeting room as soon as parliament reconvened.
She thought one of the biggest issues facing men, particularly in multicultural communities, was the breakdown in family units.
“They’re very family-oriented – I think the fact that the family unit breaks down has a devastating effect on them personally and culturally in the community,” she said.
Game said other issues included parental alienation, lack of access to out-of-hours school sport, worse academic outcomes and what she claimed was a “feminised” school system.
“You can’t have a conversation about what men and boys might need without having to have the reminder conversation about how men and boys need to behave better, and I think that needs to stop,” she said.
Other priorities for Game over the next four years were veterans’ affairs and advocating for more equitable education access regardless of postcode.
Game, who formed the Sarah Game Fair Go for Australians party last year, previously told InDaily that the 2026 election campaign had been “highly traumatic” after her prized candidate Chris McDermott defected – the party having failed to pick up any seats.
According to the South Australian Electoral Commission, Fair Go has so far received 1835 votes in the lower house and 2017 in the upper house.
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