Currie then went on ABC Radio Illawarra to complain about the lack of support she was getting from Liberal party head office, and likened herself to Donald Trump.

"Well, I feel that it is too short a time to be able to you know mobilise people as well as produce my own posters, and I'm like Donald Trump, I'm self-funding but I don't have his resources."

She also suggested that with the threats from potential coal mining in the area, local people would do best to vote for an independent or the Greens.

"It needs a very, very strong person who can unite a number of people to preserve it - possibly an independent, possibly a Green. But somebody with a lot of leverage in what looks like being a very divided government on a knife edge."

Finally she blamed "mainly females" in the party who apparently "didn't want a candidate" and then hung up on the ABC interviewer.