Julia Gillard serenaded by ukulele player at Victorian Women's Trust event JULIA Gillard was yesterday serenaded by a female ukulele player singing her famous misogyny speech during an address to thousands of women. The former prime minister was surprised at the Victorian Women's Trust with the performance by Melbourne singer songwriter Bronwyn Calcutt who recited the October 2012 parliamentary speech aimed at then opposition leader Tony Abbott word for word. "I rise to oppose the motion moved by the leader of the opposition," Calcutt sung, slowly strumming her instrument before picking up the pace. I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. I will not! Not now! Not ever! Ms Gillard described it as a "world-class welcome" she had not been expecting. "An unexpected delight!," Ms Gillard said. Former prime minister Julia Gillard speaks at Victorian Women's Trust event. In a speech defending her legacy, Ms Gillard also called for Australians to think about how the gender revolution of the past 50 years had created a "deeply held cultural stereotyping, anger and misogyny" towards females. Her comments came as the Prime Minister broadcast a video message on his Facebook page last night brandishing the carbon tax repeal legislation he will introduce this week and calling on Labor to support the move. "This is my bill to reduce your bills," Mr Abbott told his Facebook friends. This is the first big job of the new parliament and I want to assure that as far as the government is concerned, it will happen. Labor has insisted it will only support the repeal if it is replaced with an emissions trading scheme, not the Coalition's direct action policy, potentially forcing the government to wait for the new, friendlier senate next July. But the pomp and ceremony of the opening of the 44th parliament this week may be without Clive Palmer, who yesterday claimed he was sick and may not make it to Canberra after failing to show for a Meet The Press interview. Julia Gillard addresses the crowd at the Victorian Women's Trust event. During her speech, Ms Gillard defended her record on the economy, the disability insurance scheme, welfare, cracking down on big tobacco and setting up the royal commission into child sex abuse. But she also admitted to "regrets" including not taking voters into her confidence earlier on why she knifed Kevin Rudd, claiming it allowed a "myth" to be created about a "conspiracy" of "faceless men" installing her. She also regretted that the government, and the parliament, was not able to better handle asylum seeker policy. "Another bad error was effectively conceding the terminology 'carbon tax'," she said, urging Labor to stick by pricing carbon. Our carbon pricing mechanism is an ETS with a fixed price for the first three years and I should have clearly said so. Ms Gillard said she wanted Australians to think about how her gender influenced her prime ministership.