and the winner is....

....Clare Wright's The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka.

The prize, named for Stella 'Miles' Franklin, was first awarded in 2013 and both fiction and non fiction works by Australian women are eligible for entry.
Here are details of the short list http://thestellaprize.com.au/the-stella-prize/2014-2/shortlist-2014/
We recently read Hannah Kent's Burial Rites in book club. What a cracker and even more incredible as HK is still in her twenties.

'Dreams of the Stella Prize emerged in early 2011 out of a panel that was held at Readings, an independent Melbourne bookstore, on International Women’s Day. The panel was partly a discussion about the underrepresentation of women on the literary pages of the major Australian newspapers, both as reviewers and as authors of the books reviewed. For example, in 2011 70% of the books reviewed in The Weekend Australian’s books pages were written by men.
The panel also discussed the underrepresentation of women as winners of literary prizes. In early 2011, only 10 individual women had ever won the Miles Franklin Literary Award over its 54-year history.'