Border Wiradjuri elder Nancy Rooke was shocked by the comments from the Australian Liberty Alliance's Farrer contender Ron Pike.

“I think he's a very sad man,” Mrs Rooke said.

“He doesn't know our culture and I would like to invite him to our NAIDOC celebration and meet our people who are hard-working people.”

Albury’s St Matthew’s Church will host the event on Sunday, the day after the election, in which Mr Pike is challenging Liberal incumbent and Health Minister Sussan Ley, who has put him last on her preference list.

“As for the Stolen Generation myth, I'd like him to speak to my friend who has just had a big spinal operation because of her treatment in Cootamundra Girls’ Home,” Mrs Rooke said.

“It’s really upsetting because we’re trying our best for reconciliation and here he is carrying on like this.

“I’ve lived through this time of people having to run away and hide in the bush all day living in fear. Does he know about that?

“It’s a very, very bad bad view for our community and please come and have a look at what we’re doing in Albury-Wodonga.”

Fellow Albury Aboriginal leader John Murray shared Mrs Rooke's concern.

“Only when you have stood in the shoes of a race that has suffered dispossession and suffered atrocities of the highest calibre should you cast judgement and when you have I can assure you your judgement will be different,” Mr Murray said.

Mr Pike said “the whole bloody thing has been blown out of all bloody proportion”.

“It’s got nothing to do with this election, all I said was the Stolen Generation was the result of welfare concerns, it didn’t happen because of skin colour and that's historical fact,” Mr Pike said.

He said he had worked, played, befriended and employed Aborigines and had been mates with the late activist Burnum Burnum after playing rugby union with him at Leeton in the 1960s.

Mr Pike, who will spend Saturday night in Albury, said he was willing to accept Mrs Rooke’s invitation to attend St Matthew’s.

“I would be happy to do that, if I'm around on Sunday morning,” he said.

“I don’t have any problem with that.”