Bitter stoush led to One Nation paying thousands to former SA leader
South Australia’s former One Nation leader Jennifer Game – whose daughter Sarah also controversially left the party – has revealed for the first time that she won the battle for money from her former party.
Former South Australian One Nation leader Jennifer Game has been repaid about $17,000 by the party following an unsuccessful bid for a Senate seat in the 2025 Federal Election.
Game has revealed she was reimbursed $15,119.05 that she personally spent on her campaign, as well as $2,000 she spent on her nomination fee to stand as a candidate, after a bitter stoush including legal threats to reclaim the money over a year-long period.
While Game said she felt “some satisfaction” in receiving the payments, she said that “it took me time and effort”, explaining that she spent $30,000 on corflutes and other campaign materials during the election period and she was entitled to have this partially paid back by One Nation.
“I was able to claim, under my contract, a certain amount of money, so I did – I made a claim, and they wouldn’t pay me,” Game said about her initial attempt to get the money.
Game believed the party refused to pay the amount to punish her after Game and her daughter Sarah Game quit One Nation after the election in May last year.
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“They wouldn’t enter into any discussion, they wouldn’t answer my phone calls, they wouldn’t answer my texts and emails,” she claimed.
In a final notice – seen by InDaily – sent by her lawyers Randle and Taylor to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Limited, Game sought a total of $14,271.79 as reimbursement for money she spent on the campaign. This figure includes the cost of the final notice, as well as a contribution to Game’s legal fees.
It was repaid in July this year, Game revealed to InDaily, speaking for the first time on the record about the stoush.
The final notice document states that: “Pursuant to Clause 7(c) of the Candidate Funding and Disclosure Agreement, our client is entitled to the reimbursement (in part) of approval electoral expenditure in the sum of $29,147.21. Therefore, the Applicant seeks the reimbursement of the sum of $14,025.04 (“the Debt”).”
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Among other campaign material, the funds went towards 1500 corflutes, which Game said she spent $1000 to dispose of after they sat idle in her garage and were never used because corflutes are in South Australia.
“They said, ‘You have to take them’ … so, my whole garage was filled with 1500 corflutes in boxes – it took up more area than my car in the garage to move my car out,” she said.
In relation to the nomination fee, Game said she paid One Nation $2000, which was forwarded to the Electoral Commission on her behalf.
However, as Game achieved more than four per cent of the vote, the money was returned to One Nation. Game said she had to take legal action to have the money returned to her.
Game told InDaily that of the $30,000 she spent on the campaign, $10,000 came from donations.
Game claimed she ran for the Senate as a favour to One Nation, which did not yet have a candidate for South Australia, on the understanding that Pauline Hanson would back her as a candidate in the 2026 South Australian election.
She said seeking the payment was both about the principle and the amount of money.
“It was an attempt to hold her accountable for a promise that had been made through the contract – I did my end of the bargain, they didn’t,” she said.
“It takes a lot of effort after tax to earn $17,000, so, yes, it’s a small amount of money to Elon Musk, but to ordinary people, I would say $17,000 is actually quite a lot of money.
One Nation declined to comment on the payments.
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