Sarah Game is an Australian politician. She has been a member of the

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since the 2022 state election, representing

Pauline Hanson's One Nation Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON or ONP), also known as One Nation or One Nation Party, is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist List of political parties in Australia, political party in Australia. It is led by Pauline Hanson. One Nat ...

Before parliament

Before her election in 2022, Game had been a

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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

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in 2006 and lived in the

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for the next ten years, working as a biology teacher. She was One Nation's first member of the South Australian parliament. She described herself as a “hard-working single mum of three children”. Game from 2006 to 2016, lived in the UK where she worked in a teaching capacity.

Personal life and views

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. 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. In her inaugural speech to state parliament she declared her support for "sustainable, cohesive immigration to Australia".

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, a founding member of One Nation, responded by claiming that Game held "

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values" that could prompt a split from the party, adding "this is not what One Nation voters voted for".

References

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