Here's part of Fairfax's report on Ms Gillard's London Speech:

London: Julia Gillard says Hillary Clinton should "call out" the inevitable sexist attacks on her early in her run for president, because otherwise they will just get worse.

Speaking at a London 'summit' for successful women, Ms Gillard picked out her own handling of sexist and misogynistic attacks as "one thing I absolutely did get wrong" – in that she didn't directly address it soon enough.

"Instead as I went along and did the job … the reaction about gender heightened because it became a sort of convenient cudgel of criticism when you wanted to take a shot at the government.

"Instead of … policy dialogue it degenerated into 'ditch the bitch' and 'ditch the witch'."

Asked if she had any advice for Hillary Clinton, Ms Gillard said Ms Clinton "has experience enough of politics to not particularly need my advice".

However she said, from her own time in power, "if anything happens that's sexist you've got to call it out early rather than thinking it will all normalise itself and just go away by itself.

"If you allow that to happen, by the time it's seriously in contest it will be when something else is controversial and it will be hard to divide what's the usual political controversy about a big policy idea versus what is this gendered bit."

Ms Gillard was also questioned about her famous 'misogyny speech' to Tony Abbott in parliament, which went viral around the world.

Asked if she had any regrets about it, she replied simply "No".

She remembered "not hot anger, but a cold anger" ahead of the speech, but it was months before she realised its full impact, she said.

As for the future, Ms Gillard said she wasn't into introspection and wasn't contemplating an "Eat Pray Love" journey.

"I did enjoy the movie Eat Pray Love but I'm not intending to emulate Julia Roberts," she said.