Outgoing Labor MP Emma Husar has blasted her colleagues for spruiking the party's positive stance on gender equality while not publicly defending her from accusations of bullying.
Ms Husar says many of the Labor party's senior women spoke to her privately to support her, after allegations of bullying and sexual harassment were levelled against her in August.
"Well get out there and say it publicly, use your voice to back me up," the Lindsay MP told the Sydney Morning Herald on Monday.
"Otherwise this will be the same story for the next poor schmuck who comes along, gets plucked out of relative obscurity, out of my single mum life with a child on the spectrum and an estranged ex-partner, and told hey, we are going to use you to show what great people we are.
"And then throw me in the deep end and leave me there."
While close to 50 per cent of Labor's MPs are women, Ms Husar says the "elders of the party are still predominantly men."
A confidential internal Labor investigation found Ms Husar had mistreated her electorate staff but did not find evidence to support claims of sexual harassment or of her flashing another federal MP.
Ms Husar is in the midst of a defamation lawsuit against the media outlet that revealed the allegations made against her during the investigation, which included evidence from more than 20 people.
The MP launched legal action against BuzzFeed and journalist Alice Workman over their story from early August.
Ms Husar announced she would not recontest her Sydney seat at the federal election following the scandal.
But she changed her mind and said she was eager to recontest the seat, before being dumped by NSW Labor as the party's candidate last month.
