"I was chased across my front lawn with a camera and a mic shoved in my face,asking if I was a slut and if I was Sharon Stone,"Ms Husar recalled of the period in 2018 when the allegations were in the news.
"The toll it has taken has been immense ... I'm certainly not wishing that on those men,but[I am] certainly asking what the hell is this?"Ms Husar said on the ABC'sQ+A.
"We can't put a woman out there and hang her out to dry on rumour and innuendo when we have got behaviour that is clearly outside at least some standard of basic integrity going on[by men]."
AFour Corners report last week accused Attorney-General Christian Porter of displaying misogynist attitudes and being amorous toward a junior staffer in a Canberra bar,which he denied. Porter also said in a statement that the woman involved had denied the ABC's version of events.
Acting Immigration Minister Alan Tudge has admitted to having a consensual affair with a staffer,Rachelle Miller,who has filed a formal complaint accusing him of bullying her. He has apologised for the affair but not commented directly on the bullying claims beyond saying they would be investigated by the Department of Finance.
Porter and Tudge were alleged to have had inappropriate relationships but there were no allegations of any sexual misconduct.
Dialling in from the Netherlands,the historian Rutger Bregman said the issue typified a troubling distinction at play in modern life. Politics was bedevilled by the"survival of the shameless where somehow the people who don't really feel shame any more come out on top",Mr Bregman said.