Laura Anne Mayall, 24, was at home with her former housemate, when she asked her to "come out the back" and have a chat with her.

According to court documents, Mayall told her then roommate she didn't like her boyfriend living with them and he made her uncomfortable and believed he didn't like her.

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About 5.15pm on August 18 this year, the three were at home when Mayall text her housemate to come into her bedroom because they needed to talk.

The housemate walked into the bedroom when an argument took place, after Mayall accused her for the animosity in the house.

Mayall got up and pushed her ex-housemate on her shoulder's calling her a "gronk" and a "c--t".

When the housemate took a step back she used her forearm to push Mayall away, but Mayall pushed her causing her to drop her phone, and screamed at her to get out of the house.

Later the three were in the hallway when Mayall approached the man and said "do something c---t," before spitting in his face.

A short time later Mayall went to leave the house before deliberately shoulder barging the man on her way out.

That evening Mayall sent a text to her housemate apologising.

"Pushing you was gross and I am truly sorry, that's not me and it's inexcusable so is spitting on [your boyfriend]," part of the text read.

The housemate and her boyfriend decided to report the incident to police.

The next day police attended the house and spoke with Mayall. She told police she had a conversation with her housemate about the boyfriend living there rent free, which led to an argument in her bedroom.

Police said Mayall admitted the more she spoke the more she raised her voice and got aggressive, however when her housemate screamed back, Mayall felt threatened and pushed her to get out of her room.

Mayall also told the officers her housemate's boyfriend had "puffed his chest" and "charged" at her.

"He got in my face, I got in his face and the only way I could get him away from me without laying hands on him was to spit in his face," she told police.

In Dubbo Local Court on Wednesday Mayall pleaded guilty to two counts of common assault.

Defence lawyer Malachi Dutschke said the two had lived together for two years, and worked together at the Milestone Hotel before losing their job due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

He said it was an isolated event, and Mayall had since moved out and started work at the Amaroo Hotel.

"The court can take confidence she is remorseful, and taken full responsibility for her actions," Mr Dutschke said.

However Magistrate Roger Prowse said it was a "reprehensible" act and there was no reason, whether she liked him or not, to spit on another person.

"Your approach, prior to this when you told her you didn't want him living there, that was the absolutely correct approach, everything thereafter wasn't," he said.

Magistrate Prowse said it was only because she had moved out and away from the premises she escaped a jail sentence.

Mayall was convicted and sentenced to an 18-month community corrections order and fined $1500.