Australian Story

Educating Miss Siobhan (20x9)

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This week's program leaps across decades and geography to tell the inspiring story of a young family and the death of a beloved sporting legend. Peter Jackson was the gifted 'larrikin' who forged a spectacular career in rugby league and as 'the Mattie Johns of his day' on TV. His wife Siobhan matched him for high spirits and 'life of the party' personality. But his sudden death, aged 33, from a heroin overdose uncovered a harrowing story of school sexual abuse in his teens. With three small children to raise Siobhan Jackson faced big challenges. For the last year she's been teaching Indigenous children as the well regarded Principal of one of the most remote schools in Australia...