Fair Go for Australians

The Hon. S.L. GAME (15:52): On 24 July this year, the Electoral Commissioner of South Australia added the Sarah Game Fair Go for Australians to the Register of Political Parties. The party will stand candidates for upper and lower house seats at the next state election in March 2026. The registration of a new political party should come as no surprise to this chamber because new parties are a natural response to old parties who fail to respond to the genuine concerns of citizens. These concerns relate to fairness in the way government and courts decide who gets what, when and how relative to others, and who pays.

I chose to include 'fair go' in the party name because it is a uniquely Australian phrase which communicates my belief that the ability to succeed should be the result of hard work, contribution and loyalty to Australia, and not on who you know, ethnicity or membership of any particular group. When membership of a particular group is all that is needed to gain a benefit or any advantage over others, it causes division in society. It is the reason I will not support any race-based laws and have already introduced a bill to repeal the First Nations Voice Act 2023.

Targeted hiring practices in government based on gender, sexual orientation, culture and linguistic diversity are permitted by the Equal Opportunity Act 1984. These diversity, equity and recruitment (or DEI) programs are unfair to qualified applicants. They reinforce negative stereotypes and they serve to divide, not unify, people.

Race-based laws and DEI programs are just bad policy, but diversity, equity and inclusion programs are not the only bad politically correct policy. Labor governments in South Australia rank climate change, increasing population and Indigenous rights ahead of the needs of hardworking, contributing, loyal Australians. Every political party through its policies has a vision of the way it wants to see society organised.

In sport, a fair go means biological boys and men do not compete against girls and women in female-only events or share their change rooms, showers and toilets. In the hiring process, a fair go means individuals are hired on merit, not because they meet a quota. In the law, a fair go means sentencing principles are applied irrespective of the offender's identity or membership to a particular group.

In education, a fair go means allowing parents to be the chief decision-makers about the moral and ethical teaching of their children, not schools, bureaucrats and governments, so their children can develop into the people they were meant to be. It also means that the success of students should never be determined by their postcode nor their gender.

A fair go means better appreciating and backing our food and wine producers, like giving farmers the right to have stock-saving and crop-saving dams on their own properties during times of drought. A fair go means working with, rather than against, primary producers in regional areas by understanding their problems and actually listening to ideas from these people who are experts in their respective fields.

In health, a fair go means rural and regional individuals have the same health outcomes as those in metropolitan Adelaide. In families, a fair go means new laws are needed to prevent parental alienating behaviours, which cause harm to adults and is child abuse to the children affected. A fair go means a child born alive after a failed abortion is given the same care as a wanted child born alive. A fair go means that all children have the right to live, and it means parents have the right to be supported in raising their child and not be forced down the avenue of abortion.

A fair go means renters have access to rooftop solar electricity, like owner-occupiers who install rooftop solar and a battery already do, so they are not paying the highest electricity prices in the state. A fair go means electricity users are not forced to subsidise wind and solar farm operators when they do not produce electricity, which is most of the time. A fair go means having a government with the same awareness and support for men and men's issues, such as physical health and mental health, and calling out a culture that demonises masculinity and unfairly blames all society's ills on men.

One in four South Australians were born overseas. If these individuals and their families are to feel Australian and to contribute and to be loyal to the country, we must offer them a fair go to succeed. We must provide a level playing field in South Australia, where success is determined by application and effort, not identity—in short, a fair go for all.