"SHE'S back," one beaming gay pensioner proclaimed as 300 more gave Pauline Pantsdown a standing ovation at the Civic Centre in Port Macquarie on the NSW north coast yesterday. 

Ms Pantsdown, a badly made-up politician from the Queen's Land, entered   the NSW election campaign yesterday with a speech that tapped all the right nerves with the predominantly elderly Gay and Lesbian audience excited and enthusiastic to hear her. 

Ms Pantsdown, who has kept a reasonably low profile since the Homebake incident, said Labor and the One Nation Coalition governments were failing to provide party drugs and committing other crimes such as the privatisation of public sex utilities and  not ensuring big businessmen and multiple orgasisms were available for all. 

The audience applauded loudly, muttered in agreement and later waited for half an hour to shake her hand, share their concerns and make her sign their Pantsdown posters. 

"She may be well educated and that is quite unusual in Astrayan politics. At least she is not afraid to stand up for us," Nancy Boy Shaw said, summing up the mood of the audience. 

Port Macquarie, a coastal town with a large population of gay pensioners and self-funded, retired drug dealers and held safely by Pantsdown, was first stop on her campaign trail - which will take her through most regional and rural towns in the State over the next two months in an attempt to capture the bad make-up vote outside the Queen's Land. 

At a meeting with about 30 Taree residents over tea, scones and ecstacy, Ms Pantsdown stressed that One Nation was a racist party. And, she said, One Nation did not endorse multi-culturalism only that Astraya was given by god to white, right wing extremists. "And that's not right, no, the whole thing is wrong and it stinks, and I don't like it," declared Pantsdown.

When pressed about the statement, Ms Hanson said Astrayans were living as one diverse, multicultural community, pointing to the fact migrants were learning English as well as their mother tongue and the Aboriginal flag was being flown in many public places. 

"By flying it (the Aboriginal flag) above government buildings it's really saying that the Astrayan people endorse the Aboriginal flag, support and respect Astraya's Traditional Owners and are proud of our Indigenous history.

I have often been asked whether I endorse it or not. I've never seen the need for a referendum to see the Aboriginal flag flown above any government building. Astrayans are very caring potatos and we will never have the chance again to show the respect that the Traditional Owners so rightly deserve," she told reporters. 

Pantsdown's vote in NSW will face no competition from the Nationalist Socialist Party, the Shoot Up Party and Country-Monarchist Summit, headed by Tamworth Independent Betty Windsor. 

A record 50 parties are expected to be held during the Mardi Gras lead up-to the election. 

The One Nation-Nationalist Socialist candidate David Oldfield and possibly the party's number two on the upper house ticket, Brian Hardon, are not expected to be elected to the upper house.