Susan Wyndham, journalist and literary editor, best summarises the issue in her the questions opening her article in The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: ``Does Australia need a new fiction award that encourages 'positive' portrayals of women and girls? Or is it an outdated gesture in a post-feminist culture rich with female authors, characters and readers?'' Wyndham reports Rosalind Hinde, daughter of John Hinde and Barbara Jefferis, as saying that her father had ``the very clear and strong intention to honour my mother's writing, her feminisim and her devotion to other writers''.
Rosalind Hinde
Barbara Jefferis