Benjamin Allyn Brotherton, 38, and the woman had been out for dinner at the Cattleman's Hotel on February 13 this year the night the incident occurred.

Afterwards the pair decided to go to the Amaroo Hotel, and met up with some friends when Brotherton began talking rudely to the woman, court documents said.

About 2.55am the next morning the pair were walking along Brisbane Street when the verbal abuse continued.

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Police said the woman stopped walking when Brotherton walked in front of her and pushed her to the ground, causing a graze below her right knee, which bled down her leg.

Brotherton then picked her off the ground and "pulled her down the street" before he let her go and she fell to the ground again.

He again tried to pick the woman up off the ground multiple times, however she resisted and a slight struggle ensues between them.

According to police, Brotherton backed away from the woman and ripped open his shirt before he approached the woman again waving his "arms stretched out wide".

The incident was witnessed by two police officers who walked across the road to respond, when Brotherton sat on the ground next to the woman.

Brotherton said to the woman, "come on babe, get up and let's go. You're making me look bad".

The woman said, "no you pushed me over, you need to learn. You won't get away with treating me like this".

However Brotherton told the woman "you'll send me back to jail. Shut the f---k up".

Supported by the woman in Dubbo Local Court on Wednesday, Brotherton pleaded guilty to one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Defence lawyer Jai Silkman said Brotherton's behaviour was "alcohol fuelled", and admitted he had a past issue with ice, which he had spent some five months in residential rehab.

The court heard he was a concreter, a father of three and someone who had "very good prospects for the future and rehabilitation".

"He's someone who's truing to put the problems of his past behind him," Mr Silkman said.

However police prosecutor, Sergeant Michelle Bartlett said Brotherton's behaviour was brazen as it occurred opposite a 24 hour police station in view of police.

Sergeant Bartlett told the court in CCTV footage she watched she held "huge concerns".

"It's not a push, stumble and fall, she's raised in the air and flown through the air landing on the pavement," she said.

Magistrate Gary Wilson convicted and sentenced Brotherton to an 18-month community corrections order, and ordered him to engage with drug and alcohol counselling.