[2][3][4][5][6] Since her election Dalton has been a vocal critic of NSW government corruption, water mismanagement, and the under-funding of rural hospitals, mental health services, and infrastructure.

[13] Dalton has been interviewed several times by YouTube comedian Friendlyjordies, whom she praised "for covering regional council corruption, water, grants and environmental issues that are being overlooked by mainstream media".

She owns a family farming business that produces maize, rice, cereals, cotton, beef cattle, wool and fat lambs.

[24] She has also criticised excessive foreign ownership of Australian water and farmland,[25] and campaigned for mental health services in the bush.

[26] On 3 March 2022 Dalton resigned from the Shooters Fishers and Farmers after disagreeing with the party's Legislative Council members' failure to show up to vote against a bill regarding water usage that she believed would "disadvantage communities and irrigators in the lower Darling and Murray river system".