Shooter's Dubbo candidate Kate Richardson won't discuss gender while her party's leader is under fire for it

Ms Richardson is entering politics for the first time but insists she's ready to step up and make a difference for the electorate ahead of the March election.

"I believe I can do better, the electorate deserves someone better and I can deliver that and bring the community with me," Ms Richardson.

While politely declining to comment on her opponent Mr Saunders' performance when asked by the media, Ms Richardson described herself as "more open and approachable than what has happened in the last few years."

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Ms Richardson's campaign would be focused on finding ways to tackle chronic health service staffing shortages and drugs and crime in the region, which she said should have been prioritised but current leadership has not delivered.

"I'd sit down with the executives of the hospitals and see how we can solve the staffing problem, and I'd also focus on the $31.5 million promised to deliver the drug court and [drug] rehab centre which hasn't been delivered yet," she said.

"Where's the money gone, what's happening to it?"

Ms Richardson has also backed the SFF party leader, Robert Borsak, who found himself under immense pressure recently.

Calls were made for Mr Borsak to quit the party after making misogynistic comments in parliament about independent MP Helen Dalton - a former member of the SFF who quit the party.

Barwon MP Roy Butler and member for Orange, Phil Donato, led the calls for Mr Borsak to stand down but when the leader survived the push they both quit the party and now run as independents.

Their departure meant all SFF lower house MPs quit the party in 2022.

Ms Richardson said she supports her leader because "I don't think my gender has got anything to do with it".

In her campaign in the electorate held by the Nationals Party for two terms since 2011, she believes women's issues on the pay gap and addressing domestic violence against women and children would need addressing, too.

"Women have a lot of issues that need to be addressed but I want to focus on other current issues," she said.

Ms Richardson works at PRP Radiology and has been working in the healthcare industry for decades, and SFF party campaigners said she stands with a good chance as a local whose family has been in the region for over six generations.

SFF deputy leader Mark Banasiak MLC, who announced Ms Richardson's candidacy at Dubbo said it was "simplifying" the issues facing the electorate if their leader is judged on his comments on Ms Dalton.

"I've got no further comments on that ... I will leave it up to the voters to decide on their candidates and let the people of NSW judge us as to how we performed but not on one incident," Mr Banasiak said.

"We'll leave it to the electorate to make a decision on how much weight they put on that [misogynistic comments] issue versus a lot of other issues that Dubbo face."