One of the sessions that sparked the most passion at the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival 2013 was by iconic author and feminist Anne Summers and journalist, political commentator and author George Megalogenis. “We should all thank Julia Gillard for the speech she gave on June 26,” said  Summers, to an audience that overflowed from the marquee on an unusually warm August 1 afternoon. It is belated yet perhaps timely to post a few days ahead of former Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s conversation with Anne Summers in Sydney on September 30 and Melbourne on October 1. (Both events sold out rapidly and the conversation will be live on ABC 24 on Monday, 6.30 p.m.) Called The Misogyny Factor, the same title as Anne Summers’ book, the BBWF session looked at many topics other than the former Prime Minister Julia Gillard and these are touched on in an earlier post. The country handled the experience of having a first female prime minister very badly, said Summers. “But why? It wasn’t just that Gillard was a woman, single, …