NSW Liberal candidate Dai Le has accused Labor of trying to link her to One Nation founder Pauline Hanson in the Sydney-based electorate of Cabramatta.
Ms Le, a Vietnamese-born former journalist, hopes to claim the western Sydney safe Labor seat from Nick Lalich at Saturday's state election.
She says the Australian Labor Party is running a "smear campaign" against her by distributing leaflets.
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The flyer, distributed in Chinese and Vietnamese, shows four grainy photographs of Dai Le alongside Pauline Hanson, Chris Spence and Barry O'Farrell, as SBS correspondent Peta-Jane Madam reports.
Mr Lalich was photographed handing out the flyers, authorised and printed by the Labor Party, outside the pre-poll booth in Cabramatta.
Ms Le said Labor and Lalich showed desperation by bringing race into the election.
She said she will contact the NSW Electoral Commission and call for the material to be immediately withdrawn.
''One of the reasons I am standing as a candidate is so we can bring the community together, fight the ideas of One Nation and stop Labor using race as a divisive tool and disseminating lies,'' Ms Le said.
AAP says comment was being sought from Mr Lalich, Premier Kristina Keneally and Labor campaign spokesman Luke Foley.
Ms Keneally was due to visit Cabramatta on Wednesday afternoon.
