Mandy Nolan, the Greens candidate for the seat of Richmond, was previously forced to apologise after making a “clumsy” joke about Hitler.

She later told a podcast that the death of Shane Warne helped to get the controversy out of the newspapers.

Despite her controversial remarks, she insists that the locals know her well after running in the seat previously, and they aren’t bothered.

“I was asked why I would do something as stupid as get into politics,’’ she told locals when she was MC at a cabaret show called The Met Gala in Lismore.

“And I said, “I’m just doing it so I can f*** Barnaby Joyce.”

Labor strategists have told news.com.au that the Labor seat of Richmond is set to fall to Ms Nolan, potentially denying the Prime Minister majority government.

The comedian has also previously described Australia as a global embarrassment.

“White people have a lot to be sorry for. Our-pale skinned privilege is the passport I and many others use to glide through life. We see this as our birthright,’’ she wrote in her blog in 2019.

“I have two black sisters – beautiful, strong women who haven’t had the easy passage through life that I have. They’ve experienced racism, whether overt or institutionalised, their whole lives.

“We’re morally repugnant. A global embarrassment. I suggest we start a movement in an attempt to repatriate all the harm and hurt we’ve caused. It would be like Black Pride, but we call it White Shame.”

In another blog post, she wrote about why she was against eating ham on Christmas Day because Jesus was Jewish.

“I’ve never understood why we celebrate the birth of Christ with a leg of ham. Wasn’t he Jewish?,’’ she said.

“His mum was Jewish so even though Jesus was to go on to become the CEO for the Christian church he wasn’t a ham man.

“This year I’m going to attempt a Vegan Christmas. I feel like the vegan theme kind of fits with the whole Virgin birth scenario – I mean Mary wasn’t into meat either.”

She went on to suggest that climate change warriors “hear the call to arms” of activist Greta Thunberg.

“But you can’t hear Greta’s call to arms and go back to Kmart. Even for the Santa photo,’’ she said.

“I have many adult daughters – they all have very active uteruses. Christmas is ostensibly about the ‘fruit of thy womb Jesus’ so I’m thinking of menstrual cups. After some googling (sic) I found a company that makes them here in Australia! Eco-friendly medical grade silicone. I can’t wait to see their faces!. ”

Ms Nolan came under fire in 2022 when a video surfaced of her reading an opinion piece that was originally published in the Byron Shire Echo in 2011.

She said she had been discussing the frustrations of explaining the need to balance fun and responsibility to her teenage daughter, when she said Adolf Hitler “had fun”.

“Just look at Hitler. He had fun. He did whatever he wanted to do,” she said in the video.

“Just ask … Jews how they feel about that now and he still didn’t get his sociopathic fill – you just can’t do it, it’s ­unethical.”

At the time, Greens leader Adam Bandt said she would make a great member for Richmond after she apologised.

“Mandy has a strong history of fighting anti-Semitism and fascism, and has apologised for any distress caused by her comments,’’ he said, in 2022.

Byron Bay, Anthony Albanese and the House of Representatives

It’s the celebrity playground beloved by Chris Hemsworth, Matt Damon and model Gemma Ward.

But Byron Bay is one of the coastal towns in the electorate that could smash Anthony Albanese’s dream of majority government as the electorate of Richmond threatens to fall to the Greens.

The seat includes Tweed Heads and Murwillumbah, the whole of Byron Shire, plus northern parts of the Ballina Shire.

At the last election the Greens went within a whisker — 3,500 votes — of winning the primary count at the 2022 federal election.

Labor’s Justine Elliott has held the seat for just over twenty years after she first won the seat from the Nationals in 2004.

Once upon a time, the seat was held by the Country/National Party from 1922 to 1990, and again from 1996 to 2004.

It was an upset vote at the time, when she defeated the National Party’s Larry Anthony, a minister in the Howard government.

In a three cornered-contest, the winner on election night will all depend on who comes third and where their preferences go.

“It’s a three-horse race … and you’ve got to come second to come first,” Ms Nolan told the ABC.

“All we have to do is flip Labor.

“It’s bizarre I know … [but] if we just get a 1.8 per cent swing, some say even less, we could go above Labor.”

She insisted that voters weren’t turned off by her colourful past.

“Anything that can be dug up, I’ve already done,” Ms Nolan said.

“People know that what they see is what they get.”