Exiled Victorian MP Moira Deeming has said she feels she was "relentlessly hunted" before being expelled from the parliamentary party room, but will never quit the Liberal Party.
Ms Deeming made the comments in an interview with Sky News commentator and former Liberal staffer Peta Credlin, which was published in the Herald Sun newspaper.
She was expelled from the parliamentary party on Friday, following weeks-long, publicly ventilated tension within the Victorian Liberals.
The stoush began after Ms Deeming's involvement in an anti-trans rights rally in March which was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis.
Ms Deeming and the event organisers condemned the presence of the men, who performed the Nazi salute.
Opposition Leader John Pesutto moved to expel her from the party room following that event, citing her association with the organisers of the rally, who he said had links to neo-Nazis.
She was instead suspended for nine months.
Ms Deeming said Mr Pesutto promised to publicly state that she was not associated with neo-Nazis. Mr Pesutto said this was not necessary because "nothing" in a dossier circulated by him after her attendance at the rally "ever accused Moira Deeming of being a Nazi or herself having Nazi sympathies".
Tensions came to a head in recent days as the exiled MP flagged taking legal action against Mr Pesutto on defamation grounds.
Outraged at the possibility of a legal threat, members of the parliamentary party then raised the issue of her expulsion again — a motion which was on Friday successful.
Dispute over the minutes of the March meeting resulted in fellow conservative first-term MP Renee Heath being demoted from her role as parliamentary secretary in the same vote.
Ms Deeming has declined repeated requests to speak to the ABC.
In her interview with Credlin, Ms Deeming maintained she had done "nothing wrong" by attending the March rally.
She said she never wanted to sue the party and instead "just wanted mediation" in her dispute with Mr Pesutto.
"I feel completely betrayed," she said.
"I honoured the terms of my suspension, but John Pesutto did not.
"I feel done over, like they were stringing me along, hoping to find some other way to get rid of me because they don’t like my views on issues like women, and they've already worked out I have had these views for a long, long time and I am committed to defending them."
That is despite Ms Deeming writing a letter at the start of the month stating "I have advised my lawyers to prepare a legal challenge over my suspension", and Thursday's defamation concerns notice flagging potential legal action.
Ms Deeming said she was "relentlessly hunted by a pack of people who were never going to stop" but was being "blamed for my own demise".
Expelled from the parliamentary party, Ms Deeming will now permanently sit on the crossbench in the state's upper house and continue to represent the Western Metropolitan Region.
She is still a rank-and-file member of the Liberal Party, which Ms Deeming said would remain the case.
"I will never resign. I will never quit. I will not do their dirty work for them, I have much too much dignity for that," she said.
In a letter sent to rank-and-file Liberal members on Friday, state president Greg Mirabella dismissed speculation about Ms Deeming being expelled from the wider party, and wrote to members that "winning elections is a team sport".
On Friday, Mr Pesutto said Liberal Party members would receive a detailed explanation of the events leading up to Ms Deeming's expulsion, but that he would not discuss them publicly.
He said it was not a decision any political party would "take lightly".
Mr Pesutto on Sunday declined to comment on the interview.
