 Contesting the Senate in New South Wales, she described herself as "the working woman's candidate" and support free trade, abolition of state parliaments and a state bank in addition to Georgism.She received 18,924 votes (6.1%), outpolling the other New South Wales Senate candidate, Nellie Martel, by 400 votes.By 1906, Moore-Bentley's relations with her brothers, her nearest neighbours at Bangor where she lived, grew tense.