Little Heroes Foundation co-founder and Crows football legend Chris McDermott has been announced as Fair Go for Australians\u2019 candidate for the electorate of Dunstan in the upcoming state election.<\/p>\n
McDermott is one of SA\u2019s top not-for-profit business leaders and a close associate of Game. He has been involved in assisting with her men\u2019s mental health advocacy initiatives.<\/p>\n
Game announced McDermott\u2019s candidacy, saying \u201csmall parties can do great things\u201d.<\/p>\n
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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.<\/p>\n
McDermott played for the Adelaide Football Club from 1991 to 1996 and was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2025 King\u2019s Birthday Honours for services for Australian rules football.<\/p>\n
He will battle it out against Labor\u2019s sitting member Cressida O\u2019Hanlon, the Liberal candidate Anna Finizio and Greens candidate Christel Mex.<\/p>\n
Game established Fair Go<\/a> in August 2025 after sensationally quitting One Nation<\/a> in May, stating that stereotypes associated with the party had been \u201cvery limiting\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI think [for] anyone who knows me and that I\u2019ve worked with professionally, that\u2019s never been an issue they\u2019ve had with me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Game told InDaily the party stands for \u201cgiving all South Australians a fair go.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat that means is that you\u2019re rewarded for effort and hard work. So, it\u2019s not favouring any particular group based on their ethnicity or gender, or filling certain boxes or discriminating against a certain group,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Game said that some issues the party would advocate for are incentivising landlords to put solar panels and batteries on their homes, \u201cso that renters aren\u2019t paying the highest electricity prices while they\u2019re trying to get on a housing ladder\u201d.<\/p>\n She said the party would also push for repealing the First Nations Voice to Parliament and \u201cputting parents back in charge of how their children are educated\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Little Heroes Foundation co-founder and Crows football legend Chris McDermott has been announced as Fair Go for Australians\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-435273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}