Shocking footage has emerged of a woman cutting down a poster of independent Fowler MP Dai Le

Shocking footage has emerged of a woman cutting down a poster of independent Fowler MP Dai Le, saying she's doing so because the Vietnamese-Australian is a “Communist” and a “Muslim”.

A woman was caught on camera cutting down a poster of independent Fowler MP Dai Le, saying she’s doing so because the Vietnamese-Australian is a “Communist” and a “Muslim”.

The man confronting the woman, who is seen holding a pair of scissors, is asked what she is doing as she repeatedly commits the offences.

The woman answers, “she no good lady” as she continues to point to Ms Le’s face and says: “Muslim” and “Communist Vietnam”.

She ignores the man when he tells her not to damage the property and to take up any complaint she has with Ms Le instead.

At one point, he expresses bemusement, saying: “Communist Vietnam? What are you saying – Muslim, now you’re saying Communist?”

The woman then casually walks off holding the damaged corflute.

Sky News has agreed not to show the woman’s face, but she appears to be the same person caught on camera damaging Ms Le’s posters during the 2022 campaign, even wearing what looks like the same orange outfit.

The latest incident happened at night outside a retail store on Canley Vale Road, in Canley Vale, south-west Sydney, shortly before the election was called.

Sky News has also obtained a second video showing more damage to Ms Le’s posters which the man who confronted the vandal claims was caused by the same person, this time outside his own shop.

The serial vandal made headlines during the last campaign after being filmed from afar cutting up signs stuck to a fence in the same suburb.

Corflutes with Ms Le’s face on them had been found slashed and scrawled with writing in Vietnamese accusing her of being an “evil killer” and a “Communist”.

Ms Le’s family fled communist Vietnam by boat in the late 1970s when she was seven and she is not Muslim.

“Some of the Labor supporters here are still very angry that I am still around,” Ms Le says with a laugh.

“Considering this was the second safest seat in the country for Labor, it must be painful for somebody to lose such a safe seat in the heartland.

“You expect there’ll be retaliation, there'll be defacing of posters, there'll be things on social media. I just get on with my job to continue to represent the community, to continue to fight. It’s no time to sit there and feel sorry, whatever, you just have to continue to fight.”

Ms Le snatched the seat from Labor after the party parachuted former senator and NSW premier Kristina Keneally into the electorate, preselecting her instead of local Vietnamese-Australian lawyer Tu Le.

This time, Labor is endorsing Tu Le, who rejected any party links to the defacement of her opponent’s campaign material.

“I've had my posters and corflutes also taken down,” Tue Le says.

“I think it's dangerous to provide blame in that way without any strong evidence. I would not have had anything to do with that or anyone that I know of in my team.”

The damaged posters are not the only topic on which the two key candidates are trading barbs, after Dai Le labelled her rival’s preselection “tokenistic” to Sky News.

“Absolutely I think Labor was tokenistic in its decision to preselect somebody with a similar name to me and that's all that she has - a similar name to me, but other than that, maybe her ethnicity,” Ms Le said.

“The community probably feel like last time, they took us for granted and parachuted somebody from Scotland Island to represent this community that are majority low-socioeconomic, non-English speaking background.

“This time, they have put in a candidate targeting one specific ethnicity, thinking that's the only ethnic group that they need to appeal to, but this community is very diverse. I'm very honoured to be the first Vietnamese-Australian to be elected [as a federal MP] and I'm proud of my Vietnamese heritage. But I got elected not because of my Vietnamese heritage, I got elected because I'm a local member who understands this community, who grew up here and understands the challenges that our community have faced and will continue to face unless [there is] some intervention, unless government really puts some resources here.”

Tu Le rejected the characterisation she is a token pick.

“That's very disappointing and I think we need to give voters more credit than that,” Tu Le said.

“I think they can distinguish between two very different people that stand for different things.

“It doesn't matter about our [ethnic] background. I'm a local here, I've got a long track record of representing my local community and working in my community and I'm just focused on the upcoming election and working very hard to win every single vote back.”

Fowler is considered a must-win seat for