Outgoing Liberal MP Nicolle Flint has used her valedictory speech to urge the parliament to better protect women from offensive, insulting and intimidating behaviour, while taking aim at "the left" and social media giants for the harassment and abuse she has endured during her time in politics.  

Last year the member for the marginal South Australian electorate of Boothby announced she would quit federal parliament at the upcoming election.

Ms Flint, who has been vocal about the sexist and misogynistic harassment and online abuse she has faced during her time in politics, called on parliamentarians to strengthen laws to shield women from the sort of attacks she has suffered. 

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"Women will continue to be attacked, abused, belittled, gossiped about and lied about until we have blanket protection that says it's an offence to offend, insult, humiliate, and intimidate women," she told parliament on Wednesday.

"We know this has worked to protect other groups in our society, it's worked well. 

Ms Flint once again singled out Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese, saying he had failed to call out or condemn abuse directed towards her.

"The left of politics as a whole need to act, and that action needs to start right in this place, with the Leader of the Opposition," she said. 

"Last March, in response to an emotional speech given by me in this place, the Leader of the Opposition told the press gallery and the Australian people that he would act when sexist and misogynist and dangerous behaviour was drawn to his attention. Well, he hasn't."

In March last year, Ms Flint delivered a speech to parliament in which she accused senior Labor figures of failing to defend her against attacks from "GetUp, Labor and the union supporters" ahead of the 2019 federal election. 

In response, Mr Albanese said her treatment "shouldn't have happened, full stop". 

"So I stand with Nicolle Flint. Her … story is one that is appalling, that that sort of behaviour was directed at her. It shouldn't happen. It shouldn't happen to anyone," Mr Albanese told Nine newspapers.

Mr Albanese also criticised YouTuber and comedian Friendlyjordies for vulgar insults he made regarding Ms Flint, telling 5AA: "I condemn it. I condemn any behaviour which is sexist and misogynist." 

Senior South Australian Labor senator Penny Wong also described Ms Flint's treatment as "utterly unacceptable" but said her criticisms of Labor were "unfair". 

Flint details stalking, abuse 

During her valedictory speech, Ms Flint said "men on the left" including "public figures of influence" had stalked her and hurled abuse including:

"[They] suggested I should be strangled, criticised the clothes I wear and the way I look, called me a whiny little bitch repeatedly, repeatedly called me weak, a slut … and much, much worse over email, online, on YouTube, on Facebook and on Twitter."

"They've commented that I should be raped, grudge f***ed, that I'm doing sexual favours for all my male colleagues, that I should be killed, that I should kill myself, and many, many more things that I will not repeat here," she said.

Ms Flint said she believed the "complete lack of respect for other people" stemmed from the "left's great project" to achieve the "disruption of Western civilisation" by replacing "our institutions, our traditions, our conventions" with "causes that have no moral compass".

"When you replace religion and the morals and the ethics it has taught us with the religion of climate change, for example, when the battle of ideas is replaced with cancel culture and the lynch mob, when you tell women that we have less rights than men who choose to change their sex to women, when women are abused for asserting our right to be women, when the left celebrate being rude and disrespectful, claiming freedom of expression — when this becomes the standard, contempt creeps in, hate flourishes and society breaks down."

Ms Flint also described social media as a "festering toxic sewer" and said social media giants needed to start behaving like "corporate citizens". 

"We know big tech could stop all forms of hateful abuse tomorrow if they wanted to. But we also know that they won't," she said.

"Big tech are enabling toxic sewerage to spill into the homes and the lives of innocent, hardworking Australians every single day." 

Ms Flint was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2016 and was re-elected in 2019.